H:
At 12:40 PM +0530 11/15/06, s hazarika wrote:
Mahanta;
I knew you would not keep quiet.
*** You read me like an open book. Question is if it was welcome or
unwelcome :-)?
In management, we are told that there cannot be right or wrong answers.
*** I am ignorant of 'management' principles. Besides I am plagued by
a long held belief that 'management' is also a foil, a respectable
cover, for not so respectable 'manipulation', among other things.
That is why it is hard for me to swallow the line in its entirety,
even though I can imagine there could be some truth in it, under some
circumstances.
When things are not happening the way they should happen, we must
try to find out WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? We must be able to distinguish
between a problem and the manifestation of a problem. The
manifestation of a problem should not be construed by us as the
problem.
*** I can agree with that. Those of us who have to go by our
home-grown wits, would call it going beyond attempting to treat the
symptoms and deal with the root cause/s. Like the Assam insurgency
for a glaring example.
Bangladeshis in Assam is the problem or a manifestation of a problem
that lies elsewhere?
How much informed debates have taken place on the issue and how much
of the debates have been based on prejudgement of the issue, without
adequate home work, undewrstanding of the problem or the ground
realities? How many of those who show concern have read Sanjoy
Hazarika's book?
*** I can't speak of Hazarika's book, but I sure have read informed
and thoughtful discussions of the problem right here in Assam net.
But of course those are thoroughly ignored and buried by the
cacophony of the lungi-menace
wavers, trishul-wielders ,invader-invokers and insecurity-analyst
Babus and news-paper editors and columnists.
Mahanta: you ask what is the solution to the problem? I wish there
was an easy cut and dried answer. But let us make honest attempts
instead of airing platitudes.
*** Here I am firmly with you. I also am acutely aware of the
complexity of the problem and the unavailability of simple solutions
that would satisfy simple-minded people. But completely without
answers it is NOT. There are a number of measures that will have to
be undertaken to deal with it in many
fronts, and not a moment too soon. However the kind of hot-air blown
by the Sentinel or by ex-Chief Secys. like Rajkhowa or Bamun-bigots
and BJP-B'deshi-baiters are not among them. Just as the tongue-tied,
see-no-evil, hear-no-evil, Congresswallas' vote-banking vices are not.
Question is who will bell the cat? Who will begin to implement those
measures that are direly needed ? There-in lies the problem with the
dysfunctional desi-demokrasy that you all are dedicated to, but which
cannot deliver. Never did and never will in its present form.
m
Shgantikam hazarika
----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Chan Mahanta
To: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Shantikam Hazarika
Cc: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>SANDIP DUTTA ;
<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [asom] Assamese Fears and Saviours
O' Hazarika:
At 11:57 PM +0530 11/14/06, Shantikam Hazarika wrote:
Exuses are galore. If the chief executive of the state cannot solve the
state's problems, who can? Me?
*** Bhal prosno korise. You ask a good question. I am with you here.
I feel i have contrubuted what has been within my capacity and therefroe I
think i have the right to question others.
*** Again I agree.
But having said all that, allow me to ask Sri Dutta and you too:
WHAT is the solution to the problem? And what is Sri Rajkhowa's
solution? Or for that matter all the others who have been crying
hoarse over the lungi menace for decades on end--what is their
solution?
*** If as Sri Dutta speculates :"---It could be that he did try to
do a few things but then the question is whether he got any support
from his political bosses and the rudderless pressure groups. "
What are Sri Dutta's recommendations to get those 'political bosses' and
'rudderless pressure groups ' in line, so that the Chief Secys like
the Rajkhowas of Assam can perform their duties and SOLVE the
problem? And if it is NOT their responsibility, then help them get
their courage together to say aloud at least WHOSE responsibility it
is. Funny thing is that I am YET to see anyone who has the b---s to
say it like it is, never mind Rajkhowa, never mind Dutta, never mind
all the other Kharkhowa Indians!
*** I have this uncanny feeling that those who look at the
lungi-menace as Assam's only or the most significant problem, are
people whose visions are damaged by religious bigotries, even if
they had any to begin with. All they are capable of is moaning and
groaning, bereft of the ability to analyze the problem and looking
at achievable solutions. Just like most things Indian, they think
crying about something is the same thing as doing something about it!
Best.
cm
Shantikam hazarika
----- Original Message -----
From: "SANDIP DUTTA" <<mailto:pseude%40yahoo.com>[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <<mailto:assamonline%40yahoogroups.com>[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [asom] Assamese Fears and Saviours
Its not a question of what he didn't do.
It could be that he did try to do a few things
but then the question is whether he got any support
from his political bosses
and the rudderless pressure groups.
There are many here who would question the actions
of others without really having contributed
anything concrete themselves.
Rgds,
SD
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