>Assamese are suffering from an
acute inferiority complex.
>That is why they want to stay
with India and are staying with India and will stay with India
forever.
>That is why they never raised
their voice to stay as an independent country at the time of India's
independence.
>Even now hardly any Assamese
are raising their voice for independence.
The above statement of mine
is just a statement of the realty. This should not be interpreted to mean
that I support (or object) Independence of Assam. I am simply saying that
Assamese is not a warrior people with high National spirit or unity like the
Nagas or other people and donot have the will, courage, spirit and love of
freedom for independence. I agree that 'independence' is definitely a
'pipe dream' now (specially since we donot have any leader), but probably it was
not a pipe dream when Assam was under the British till 1947. (I have my
own analysis why Assam lost the freedom spirit after 1857 when Maniram Dewan was
hanged). Today, whether we NEED independence or not is completely another
subject.
The second realty is that, Assamese
is not even an equal partner in the Indian Independence movement and in the
Indian Democratic game today. If you read history, Assam was actually begging
Gandhi and Nehru and the Congress, before 1947, so that Assam can stay with
India. (Please! let us stay with you guys, ami apwnalwkor nkina golam
hoi thakim). There was no movement for an Independent Assam as an
alternative to joining Pakistan. Assam could have very well say it to the
British, at that time: Please give us back our Assam that you took from us in
1826. But Assam did not. In fact the Assamese were so happy to be a part
of India that Assamese wanted to forget the six hundred years of Ahom rule.
Assamese novelist wrote novels 'Kwnw Khed Nai" (No Regret) ridiculing
the six hundred years of Ahom rule. Eminent man of literature took comfort and
wrote auto-biography titled : "Kongresor Kasioli Rodot". This is a
realty.
Now having joined India on
its own choice (or its own begging) we are complaining that India is
treating Assam like a step child. Today the insurgency in Assam is
happening as a negative outlet because of lack of leadership in Assam. It is not
a positive movement for independence by any means.
Your statement that
"They very well
know that their lot is in much better state staying with India than being
independent."
Actually people
of Assam donot have any choice, do they? Your statement also goes to show
that people of Assam lack even the confidence in their own people. In other
words it goes to prove my statement that they are suffering from a acute
inferiority complex.
If one analyze
the stream of events, one will come to the conclusion, that Assamese is a
follower, a litikai to the mainland Indians. (Is there any field where Assam is
taking a leadership role?) This is a realty.
That is and will be Assam's lot
till we can create new and competent leaders. The earlier we realize this the
better so that we can act.
RB
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 12:20
AM
Subject: Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's
bamboo-reinforcement
Dear Barua,
>Even now hardly any Assamese
are raising their voice for >independence.
Very few actually raised the
voice of independence, and fewer still do so today. I think, in case for
independence, most Assamese are actually being savvy and and realize what a
pipe dream this venture really is. They very well know that their lot is in
much better state staying with India than being independent. That is why, you
will find very few voices for independence.
I doubt they are being 'litikai' at
all.
Just my thoughts.
--Ram
On 8/28/06, Barua25
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I thought I never had to
respond.
Assamese are suffereing from an
acute inferiority complex.
That is why they want to stay
with India and are staying with India and will stay with India
forever.
That is why they never raised
their voice to stay as an independent country at the time of India's
independence.
Even now hardly any Assamese
are raising their voice for independence.
Today Assamese are not even
complaining against the GOI. They are simply saying that GOI is treating
Assam like a step child. All Assam wants, is GOI to treat them as a
'legitimate child.' They dream of the day when Mai Bap GOI would treat them
as their own child. That is all they want. That is the highest dream of an Assamese. As a result
they wait for GOI's command to say what Assam would do so that they
follow GOI like a 'litikai' and can please GOI.
Assamese could solve lot of
their problems if simply they would stand up and voice in confidence.
They are suffering so much in
inferiority complex, they even shy away to pronounce Oxom and are trying to
say Asom so that their big brothers would not laugh. There is hardly any
Assamese intellectual left in Assam. They even donot know their own history
and culture.
Poor, pathetic 'litikai'
Assamese with their 'tilika' minds.
RB
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 11:19
PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's
bamboo-reinforcement
Rajen:
>It is an Assamese problem
of inferiority complex. Nobody will save the Assamese. We should stop
blamimg the GOI.
*** Can you explain how or why it is an Assamese problem only, free of
any connection or responsibility of GoI?
It is important to understand that, if your advice to 'stop blaming
GoI' is to be taken seriously.
c
At 11:12 PM -0500 8/22/06, Barua25 wrote:
>Not just
no- drinking/washing water-
>No solid
waste management/garbage collection/disposal fit for a
city
>No
sewer/sewage treatment/ storm-water disposal
Why we don't hear any of these news in Kharkhowa News Papers? Why
the news papers in are interested in news from mainland India instead?
It is an Assamese problem of inferiority complex. Nobody will save
the Assamese. We should stop blamimg the GOI.
RB
----- Original Message -----
From: mc
mahant
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's
bamboo-reinforcement
Not just no- drinking/washing water-
No solid waste management/garbage collection/disposal fit
for a city
No sewer/sewage treatment/ storm-water
disposal
Raw sewage from so-called Septic tanks of 2 million
people just dumped into the pure river.What happens to the
health of Kamrup/Goalpara/Dhubri--and the whole nation
-Bangladesh?
And Delhi's very own Refinery dumps daily 100 tons of Oil
waste direct to river or through Guahati drain system/Bharalu and no
Pollution Control Board dares to touch them.
Indian Science does not know/cares to know that 1 drop
of oil spreads to a film of 100 sq mtr opaque for Oxygen.
No Oxygen-> no planktons->no fish->no Xihoo (River
Porpoise).
Who Cares!
P.S.Thanks for the free publicity {MC Mahanta's
bamboo-reinforcement}
Let ignorance/bigotry/mediocrity thrive!!!
mm
From: Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
[email protected]
Subject: Re: [Assam] MC
Mahanta's bamboo-reinforcement
Date: Tue, 22 Aug
2006 08:55:48 -0500
>This whole notion of a city, with as
large a population as Guahati,
>not having a municipal water
supply system is absolutely atrocious,
>and that while sitting
on the bank of the Brahmaputra.
>
>It is entirely a result
of the dysfunctional desi-system of governance; which
>is
unaccountable to anyone, made up of thoroughly incompetent people, and
who
>do not have a clue as to how to tap into the abilities and
skills of
>its own people.
>
>Nothing could change
for the better under this system. Only option is
>to dump it and
build a new society from its ashes.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>At
6:48 AM -0700 8/22/06, Rajib Das wrote:
> >The big problem is
there is no water under your land
> >in Guwahati. As there
are areas, including my house,
> >where city water supply
does not reach. Not that it
> >would help greatly. At least 3
to 4 months of a year,
> >it is the same problem.
>
>
> >So the problem exists. The solution is not under your
> >plot of land. If Brahmaputra water can be
>
>appropriately filtered and sold, that is a different
>
>animal all together.
>
>
>
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