Samudra-da,
Aren't you the Assam Bureau chief of Indian Express . I used to read your
articles and worked for Indian Express from 1996 to 1999 in Rajasthan and MP.
I recall a Harvard Professor (an Australian) Prof Robertson (?) saying that
education alone will not lead to development -- the developing regions will
have to learn to develop an attitude and mechanisms -- thru trial and error ---
like West has developed its systems (UN etc) after millions died in World Wars.
The question ofocurse which must bug us -- do we really need to go thru so many
wars and attitude clashes to become developed.
Regards.
Umesh
samudra gupta kashyap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But, sometimes -- if not all the times -- you are compelled to
believe that we indeed live in a jungle, if not worse. last sunday i and dileep
chandan, editor of asam bani, were travelling from guwahati to nalbari, and
were confronted by a group of teenage girls beyond hajo, who had blocked the
main road and were demanding money for some puja they said they were
organising. when we refused, they abused us, asking what kind of assamese we
were that we were unwilling to help them organise a puja! this is a regular
scene in this jungle, where people block even highways to collect donations
(extortion!!!!!) for various purposes including organising bihu - our jatiya
utsav -. and those who do not pay may be beaten up, detained, hurled with the
richest of assamese abuses, and may be even kidnapped if the 'volunteers' are a
bit more energetic.
i work in the media, and that too for the so-called national media, and it
often becomes difficult to paint a rosy picture of the state because such a
situation does not exist in reality. every assamese like me, wo work for
outside media, including mrinal talukdar of united news of india, enaxi saikia
barua of press trust of india, sushanta talukdar of the hindu, bijoy shankar
bora of the statesman, digambar patowari or rahul karmakar of hindustan times,
or prabin kalita or oinal sunil of the times of india face the same problem.
believe me, there are intellectuals in assam who think and strongly believe
that the outside media in assam do not have a single 'local' assamese reporter,
and when such intellectuals issue statements with such unfounded allegations,
there is a section of the local media which publishes them without bothering to
verify the facts.
god bless this state.++
On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 Debojyoti Bordoloi wrote :
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