Re: [Assam] Demands for Separate states in India

[Chan Mahanta]

Title: Re: [Assam] Demands for Separate states in India

BK,

>Assam's case look pathetic because of a number of things. Somebody rightly mentioned in these mails, there are no >Assamese in Assam: who do you want to be sovereign?

*** Does this therefore constitute ONE of the reasons for your assessment, that Assam's quest for freedom is not legitimate enough?

I surely hope not. Because I know you are much too thoughtful and analytical a person to proffer this argument to a bunch of people like Assam netters.

>For example, when the Official Language Act was passed it >was passed as a working bilingual or trilingual Act >(Assamese, Bengali and English: you can add Hindi to it as >well).    

*** Same comments again.

> Assuming that Assam is sovereign, she can follow the lessons of Saudi Arabia and Dubai.And Malaysia. The >economies of these countries are practically run by expatriate labour.

*** I presume you are attempting to suggest that since Oxomiyas are genetically lazy and do not like to work, they will have to depend on B'deshi and Bihari itinerant labor force to take care of their needs, even though you do not see a problem with that.

I will agree with the latter part -- that *I* don't see a problem with that either, as long as Assam has the resources to PAY for it.

But I take issue with the implied first part. It is about as meaningless a statement as one can get. The perceived Oxomiya sloth is a RESULT of a number of factors:

        ** Traditionally, Oxomiya sustenance farmers did not have to work

        nearly as hard as people of some other areas, like Bihar for example.

        Assam's population density was very low, things grew without much

        effort ,there was plenty of game in the forests  and fish

        in the rivers and marshes.

        ** The govt. office workers, the 'babus' who are the only people

        that the so-called intellectual class who help perpetuate such

        myths usually are exposed to and are aware of, do NOT make up

        the bulk of Assam's population. And these babus, a bunch of

        unproductive, worthless people, wallow in their sloth and get away

        with it due to the dysfunctional-desi-system of governance which is

        incapable of maintaining even a rudimentary degree of EXPECTATION of

        its cadres. And to add insult to injury, the system is incapable

        of holding its ranks accountable and set up deterrence to such

        behavior.

        It should not therefore require a rocket scientist to see how the

        lack of any deterrence , bee it social, be it moral, be it religious

        or be it governmental, perpetuates the non-performance of this

        sector.

*** An Assam that is free to re-engineer its governance with tools to exact accountability and set up deterrence against non-performance, can immediately turn things around on this front.

A governmental bureaucracy that is not sustained by a treasury that steals from those who PRODUCE and re-distributes to the non-performers  in the form of life time employment regardless of productivity would immediately react to the fact their "xaandoh-khwa baali tol-jowa" ( the demise of the golden goose) situation.

All of a sudden the bloated and un-productive  bureaucracy will be a thing of the past.

Ensuing social turmoil?

Some of it is bound to happen. Everything has a price. What makes the security of the non-performing establishment,built on the backs of the producing masses, so sacred? But pretty soon, like water finding a level, things will settle down, but with a brighter future for ALL.

sondon

       

At 3:24 AM -0400 8/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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Since the fifties or so sixties Great Britain decided to get rid of their colonies for one reason or the other. But there were a few small island colonies, I now forget their names (of course I can find out if I can visit a good library), they didn't want to be free because they were entirely dependent on the Government of United Kingdom for their livelihood. They were liabilities to the UK Government and the UK Government would have very much liked to get rid of them.

 

I presume that it is not the case with the States of India I mention. Unlike the nameless islands I indicate above where the working population were mostly manual workers, Indians are today an elite nation, professionals in various fields besides being engaged in good farming and industrially progressing. And the majority of the population owe allegiance to established religions.

 

Assam's case look pathetic because of a number of things. Somebody rightly mentioned in these mails, there are no Assamese in Assam: who do you want to be sovereign? For example, when the Official Language Act was passed it was passed as a working bilingual or trilingual Act (Assamese, Bengali and English: you can add Hindi to it as well).    

 

Don't despair. At the moment I suppose Assam does have a bare majority of Assamese speaking people. Assuming that Assam is sovereign, she can follow the lessons of Saudi Arabia and Dubai.And Malaysia. The economies of these countries are practically run by expatriate labour. But these expatriates have no right to citizenship and constitute no threat to local inhabitants.

 

What about the language? Do the expatriates learn Arabic? Some do but I understand the natives are trying to learn the language of the expatriates as well.

 

Bhuban

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