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>WHY should those states that ARE India, should be seeking to be
independent?
Now you seem to be talking. So
it looks like some states are India and some states will then
be non-India.
OK let us go with your logic and
see where it will lead into.
Assam I would presume you would
like to catagorise as a non-India state.
Now the question is how do we find
out which other states are India
and non-India states?
For instance, is
Bihar a non-India state or India state.
What about
Kerela?
Or Meghalaya or
Arunachal Pradesh for that matter?
Or our new born sister
Sikkim?
RB
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 4:29
PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] AT: 'Regional issues
don't get priority in national media'
>Others
are not crying like Assam.
Others are
not shouting like Assam how ineffective their state govt
is.
Others are
not dying like in Assam.
>Others are doing insurgency like
Assam.
*** And does that mean the other states are NOT complaining
--CRYING --
that they are being run ineffectively?
And WHY should those states that ARE India, should be seeking to be
independent? Does it make any sense?
At 1:21 PM -0600 2/13/06, Rajen Barua wrote:
That may be
a revelation for you.
But it is a
fact that :
Others are
not crying like Assam.
Others are
not shouting like Assam how ineffective their state govt
is.
Others are
not dying like in Assam.
Others are
doing insurgency like Assam.
RB
----- Original Message -----
From: Chan
Mahanta
To: Rajen
Barua
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] AT: 'Regional issues don't get
priority in national media'
>Elsewhere in
India it is not happening.
*** That is yet another gem of a revelation
!!!
At 11:59 AM -0600 2/13/06, Rajen Barua wrote:
>And why are people CRYING right here
about HOW ineffective Assam's govt. ( just like elsewhere in
India) is?
Ah
Ah
You cannot slip
that phrase there.
- just like elsewhere in India
Elsewhere in India
it is not happening.
That is the
problem.
RB
----- Original Message -----
From: Chan
Mahanta
To: Ram
Sarangapani
Cc: Rajen
Barua ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
; [email protected]
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 11:37
AM
Subject: Re: [Assam] AT: 'Regional issues don't get
priority in national media'
Ram:
>I haven't seen insurgents meeting the true needs of
the people.
*** There is a simple explanation for it:
The insurgency is a a vehicle for getting to the point of
being able to change governments for Assam --to be more effective. It
is NOT an end.
And why is it required? For the simple reason that the
current system is controlled by India to serve India's interests, not
Assam's. And des-demokrasy is UNCHANGEABLE!
>Are you saying that the people are being duped over
and over again by these politicains and their goons?
*** IF NOT, why do we see no change? Why have changes of
government produced any change of policies? And why are people CRYING
right here about HOW ineffective Assam's govt. ( just like elsewhere
in India) is?
At 11:00 AM -0600 2/13/06, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
C'da,
>>Do the insurgents
represent the people? If so, can you explain how you have measured
that?
>*** See above!
I haven't seen insurgents meeting the true needs of the
people. All we have seen or heard is all the mayhem over the years.
How do you put them on a pedestal and claim that they represent the
true aspirations of the people?
Elections may be orchestrated by politicians. Are you
saying that the people are being duped over and over again by these
politicains and their goons? If that is the set of people you are
working with, how can you NOT say that the insurgents are actually
doing the same thing as these politicians are - ie.
duping/forcing people to support them?
--Ram
On 2/13/06, Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>busy with elections
and campaigns.
*** That is a very simplistic way of deciding it isn't
it? The same old concept of elections as the test of
democracy!
IF indeed they do represent the people of Assam, WHY
the insurgency? Why did Kakopothar happen? Why are there
statewide 'bandhs' back to back?
The fact is that the Indian elections are a farce, a
sham. The people have no SAY in truly selecting their candidates.
The candidates are arbitrarily selected and the campaigns are
controlled by vested interests thru their willing servants of the
government establishment.
The Assam Govt. is NOT therefore a TRUE representation
of the people of Assam, nor do they serve their real needs, as has
been demonstrated over and over again.
>Do the insurgents
represent the people? If so, can you explain how you have measured
that?
*** See above!
At 10:35 AM -0600 2/13/06, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
>*** What is missing in these simpleminded verdicts
is the fact that Assam Govt. , Assam Politicians. DO NOT
>comprise the people of Assam. And they are NOT
representatives of the PEOPLE of
ASSAM.
They do NOT? Thats a
huge surprise. Last time while at Guwahati, the whole place was
agog and busy with elections and campaigns. It showed that
people were very much into it. In fact, I met some elderly
people, who seemed all excited by the
elections.
No, C'da - the
politicians (good or bad) are representing the people. The
people (whether they were roundly duped or not) still went to
the polls in huge numbers, and voted their
representatives.
Do the insurgents
represent the people? If so, can you explain how you have
measured that? Hopefully you are not basing that support on the
100,000-200,000 people protesting the other day. Assam's
population, if I remember is 47 million.
--Ram
On 2/13/06, Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>That
leaves us only with Litikai Assam CM and Assam
politicians.
*** What is missing in these simpleminded verdicts
is the fact that Assam Govt. , Assam Politicians. DO NOT
comprise the people of Assam. And they are NOT representatives
of the PEOPLE of ASSAM. Just like these NRAs who would deny
Assam its rights to self determination and self-rule and would
rather remain a colony for Indian exploitation.They are no
doubt the establishment, put in power and sustained by Dilli's
reverse Robin-hoodism policies liberally augmented with
bribery and protected by its military machine.
That is the difference!
At 7:35 AM -0600 2/13/06, Rajen Barua wrote:
Ram:
I stand
corrected on this. Thanks for the
information.
That
leaves us only with Litikai Assam CM and Assam
politicians.
Barua
----- Original Message -----
From: Ram
Sarangapani
To: Barua25
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
; [email protected]
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 1:54
AM
Subject: Re: [Assam] AT: 'Regional
issues don't get priority in national
media'
Barua,
>1) There is hardly any National news
coverage of the >incident not to speak of BBC and
others.
Not true. Almost every national paper I
read online has been carrying the news about
the
Kakopathaer violence for the last 3, 4 days. I can cite a
few - TOI, Hind. Times, The Hindu, The Telegraph, The
Statesman, Kerala Times and so on.
Further, they have
also been carrying the news about the AASU bandh call for
the 14th and the ULFA bandh call for the
13th.
BTW: Even the BBC
has carried it
--Ram
On 2/13/06, Barua25 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>He
cited the recent violence perpetrated by security
personnel in Kamakhya and said that the incident was not
highlighted the way it should have been. Placing the
blame on opinion->makers and political leaders, he
said that they have failed to project regional concerns
in the national limelight.
This is what I have been telling all along.
Litikai Assamese media will wait for the Mainstream
Central India to tell them what headline to run in their
paper. Even for newspapers in Assam, a regional news is
not so important than a news in the rest of Indfia. When
will litikai Assam wake up.
Look at this news for instance, It is
almsot 15 people (now) killied in the Kakopathaer
violence.
Now
what is news is this:
1) There is hardly any National news coverage
of the incident not to speak of BBC and
others.
2) And on the other hand Litikai Assam CM,
instead of visiting the site, is running along with
Sonia Gandhi in campoaigning for
election.
I
think this is the bottom of Assamese (sorry Asomese)
litikai-ness.
I
think, for a change, it is the duty of the
kharkhowa NRAs to bring this incident to the focus of
international media.
Can
any kharkhowa Hobo Diok NRA suggest anything how to go
about it?
Does anybody knows the email address of BBC HQ
and BBC New delhi?
Umesh, can you suggest
anything.?
RB
----- Original Message
-----
From: umesh
sharma
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006
9:42 PM
Subject: [Assam] AT: 'Regional
issues don't get priority in national
media'
www.assamtribune.com
'Regional
issues don't get priority in national
media'
By A Staff
Reporter
GUWAHATI, Feb 12 - The media in
India has changed today, to the extent that the
distinction between regional and national media is
getting blurred. It can even be said that the regional
media has evolved to penetrate larger segments, which
were hitherto the domain of the national media. This
was stated by Arnab Goswami, Chief Editor of Times
NOW, the recently launched news channel of the Times
of India group, while delivering the keynote address
at a function organised to celebrate the golden
jubilee of Asam Bani, the Assamese weekly published
by the Assam Tribune Group of
Newspapers.
Speaking on the topic
'Regional aspirations in national media,' Goswami was
of the view that issues from some parts of the country
did not figure in the priority list of national media.
This was because of the inability of mediapersons to
effectively 'push a story.'
He cited the recent
violence perpetrated by security personnel in Kamakhya
and said that the incident was not highlighted the way
it should have been. Placing the blame on
opinion-makers and political leaders, he said that
they have failed to project regional concerns in the
national limelight.
He urged the regional
media to be aggressive and favoured investigative
journalism focusing on corrupt practices. The media
had the right to dig deep into public affairs and
those responsible for corruption and other
malpractices should be identified. He regretted that
there was an acute absence of exposes and penetrating
reports, which could shock and embarrass those who
were guilty.
Earlier, the function witnessed
moving moments when the founder editor of the Asam
Bani Satis Chandra Kakati, was felicitated and he
addressed the gathering. In his brief speech, the
veteran journalist spoke about the background to the
weekly's appearance in July 1955.
In a voice
choked with emotion, he recalled how late Radha
Govinda Baruah approached him to be the editor and how
both of them made attempts to make the weekly a medium
that reflected the aspirations of the masses. He
described Asam Bani as more than a news weekly, and
called it a part of Assamese national life.
In
his welcome address, Tulsi Govinda Baruah, Chairman of
the Assam Tribune Group of Newspapers said that the
golden jubilee of Asam Bani was a memorable occasion,
because not many newspapers could achieve this status.
Referring to the path-breaking role of the weekly, he
stated that the Asam Bani was one of the first
newspapers to give voice to the common people. It had
a seminal role to play in providing a platform to
women writers and women's issues. He appreciated
founder editor Satis Chandra Kakati's role in giving a
definitive shape to the weekly.
Dr Nagen Saikia, editor
of Amar Asam and former president of Asam Sahitya
Sabha alluded to the positive role of Asam Bani in the
cultural and literary arena of Assam. Appreciating the
weekly for maintaining its standards for five decades,
he remarked that it has continued to convey the real
mood of the masses.
Noted economist Dr Jayanta
Madhab recalled his association with the Asam Bani and
cited humorous incidents from his experiences. He
praised the weekly for moulding a large number of
writers and journalists, which was a challenging task.
He graciously remembered the contribution of all those
who had passed away, but who had contributed to the
growth of the Asam Bani.
Also speaking on the
occasion, Dilip Chandan, the present editor of the
weekly said that it continued to enjoy a special place
in the hearts of many people long after its inception.
He sought the support of the reading public so that
the Asam Bani could further maintain its glorious
tradition.
In his presidential address, Chandra
Prasad Saikia, former president of Asam Sahitya Sabha,
and a former editor of Asam Bani briefly mentioned the
formative period of the weekly and appreciated the
roles of RG Baruah and Satis Chandra Kakati. For him,
the golden jubilee of the Asam Bani was a proud moment
for the entire Assamese community.
Today's
function at Rabindra Bhawan also witnessed prizes
being given away to the various winners of a short
story competition and an essay competition. Those were
organized to coincide with the golden jubilee
celebrations.
Umesh Sharma
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1-202-215-4328
[Cell Phone]
Ed.M. - International Education
Policy
Harvard Graduate School of
Education,
Harvard University,
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