The front page new about "Not Asom, Assam" http://www.pratidinassam.com/sadin/ Buljit Buljit Buragohain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: LETTERS --------------------------------- Asom or Assam? Sir The controversy over the use of the name Asom or Assam has been in the news for last few days. It has become confusing for a regular reader of The Assam Tribune like me. Your editorial of January 6 issue supports the name Assam, whereas in your paper the word Asom is used. Moreover, in the State Government advertisements Assam is used. The Parliament has not yet ratified the name Asom though the State Assembly passed it by voice vote. We should wait for the approval of Parliament. Yours etc., PRASANTA K BARUAH, Hengerabari, Guwahati.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send assam mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of assam digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Please send a Letter to the Editor, The Assam Tribune (Rajen & Ajanta Barua) 2. Sensible words on occupational hegemony. Indians must also realise the role of Assam Congress in making Assam a property of Indian congress stealing from the nation of Assam and force their parliament return of that property to its rightful owners. (Bartta Bistar) 3. ??sovereignty of the country cannot be compromised under any circumstances,? says Jaiswal. Neither Assam can let India kill off Sovereign Assam. Look at the International scenario India, stolen Sovereignties going to the rightful owners. (Bartta Bistar) 4. Re: sovereignty of the country cannot be compromised under any circumstances, says Jaiswal. Neither Assam can let India kill off Sovereign Assam. Look at the International scenario India, stolen Sovereignties going to the rightful owners. (mc mahant) 5. Filthy Scotland (mc mahant) 6. Re: Sensible words on occupational hegemony. Indians must also realise the role of Assam Congress in making Assam a property of Indian congress stealing from the nation of Assam and force their parliament return of that property to its rightful owners. (SANDIP DUTTA) 7. Re: See what the revolutionaries are upto!and GOI? (SANDIP DUTTA) 8. Re: ULFA: frustrated cat slashing bamboos (Mohan R. Palleti) 9. Re: What is the Lie?--2 (Chan Mahanta) 10. Re: IE: Assam latest developments (Chan Mahanta) 11. Re: See what the revolutionaries are upto!and GOI? (mc mahant) 12. http://www.adinorsombad.com/ (Buljit Buragohain) 13. Re: See what the revolutionaries are upto! (Chan Mahanta) 14. Agressive and Underdeveloped--in mindset and leadership? (mc mahant) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 00:27:54 -0600 From: "Rajen & Ajanta Barua" Subject: [Assam] Please send a Letter to the Editor, The Assam Tribune To: , , Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Netter: We thank you for your support in our fight against renaming the state as Asom and to retain the name of Assam. As you can see the media is Assam and many intellectuals and eminent literary figures are in favor of keeping the name of Assam and are against the spelling Asom. However, in spite of all these supports, we cannot say that we have achieved success yet. First, as one can see, we donot have proper democracy in India and worst still in Assam, and anything is possible, unless people decide to stand up and speak and take control of democracy. We figured out that at this stage, we all can do a great justice to the system if we all, on individual level, write one Letter to the Editor to The Assam Tribune. This is a paper which has a more than hundred years tradition in Assam and has great influence in public. Sadly, the paper has been playing a contradictory role in the Assam-Asom issue. It has published a unique Editorial supporting for retention of the name Assam. However the paper, for reasons of its own, is still writing the spelling Asom in all its writing. We need to humbly request the paper to stop writing Asom till we arrive at an official resolution on the issue. (BTW we have also seen during the last two days that even GOA's own advertisement in the paper is using the name of Assam and not Asom.) Below, please find the email address of Assam Tribune and a suggested draft of a letter for your help. Please edit or rewrite completely in your own way opposing GOA's undemocratic process of taking the resolution, and requesting AT not to use the spelling Asom till it is official. You may not know, but this may be a great service, you may do for our state at this stage. Thanks Rajen Barua --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Suggetsed draft of a Letter to the Editor to the Assam Tribune: Mr.P. G. Baruah Editor, The Assam Tribune Guwahati. 1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] and/or 2) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Sir, At the outset I wish you a very Happy New Year. I am very glad to see that your paper has given good coverage to the news item of the petition to the CM aginst their resolution to ranme Assam as Asom. We also see your timely Editorial supporting for retention of the name Assam. You have so wiseley pointed out that renaming state as Asom will simply create confusion and may devide the state further. The Assam Tribune is an important, and one of the oldest, Assamese institution in Assam which I take pride in.. Your family is the oldest media family in Assam. It is very important that you uphold the integrity and honesty of the role of media which is to question the government of any wrong doing instead of following the government blindly. I look forward to the Assam Tribune playing a leading role in the entire North East in the coming years. Any writing in the Assam Tribune influence the public very much. I would like the Assam Tribune to grow much more and be a voice of the people of the entire North Esat India. In this connection, I would like to point out that your estemmed paper is still writing the spelling Asom in all other writing which is very objectioable from journalistic honesty and integrety. I most humbly request you to kindly refrain from writing the spelling Asom which is creating great confusiton amongst your readers who are trying hard to understand what is exactly the voice of Assam Tribune. Incidently we are glad to notice that GOA's own advertisement in your paper is using the spelling Assam instead of Asom during the last couple of days. The spelling Asom is completely wrong, historically as well as phonetically. Our state was never known as Asom and and the spelling Asom can never pronounce the correct pronounciation of the state in Assamese. Even Chandara Prasad Saikia himself admitted this in the famous editorial of Gariyashi where he first recommended the spelling Asom. The best this rge GOA can do is to leave such complicated sensitive matters to a bosy of experts to come up with their recommendadtion. Till such time, let us all call our state as Assam. In view of above, I sincerely appeal to you not to use the spelling Asom any more. Thanks Yours Sincerely -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://assamnet.org/pipermail/assam_assamnet.org/attachments/20070108/645b23f1/attachment-0001.html ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 07:25:36 +0000 From: "Bartta Bistar" Subject: [Assam] Sensible words on occupational hegemony. Indians must also realise the role of Assam Congress in making Assam a property of Indian congress stealing from the nation of Assam and force their parliament return of that property to its rightful owners. To: AssamNet Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" *READERS REACT* http://www.northeasttribune.com/ *'Central Government responsible for ULFA attacks against Biharis' * By: Sudhir Chadda January 6: India does not recognize its biggest problem. India is actually thirty "Iraqs" ready to explode on the face of the Central Government. India is a very diverse country controlled by 'Hindi' (or languages close to Hindi) speaking oligarchs. People from different states live for decades in various regions. These long-term migrant workers take away jobs from the local people. India is on 'high' of earning foreign exchange and outsourcing money from the Western nations while it has done little for giving autonomy for non- Hindi speaking states. In this whole equation North Eastern states are most neglected. For example Hindi speaking (or close to Hindi) speaking oligarchs control the Tea Garden in Assam. When British left India in 1947, they very cunningly handed the assets over to these oligarchs knowing very well India will explode with sectarian violence in sixty to seventy years. While these rich Hindi speaking oligarchs treat local natives badly, the local natives form insurgent groups. This insurgent group cannot attack well-fortified oligarchs because of super security by Indian forces for oligarchs. They go after local poor Hindi speaking long-term migrant workers. Central Government of India responsible for ULFA attacks against Biharis in Assam ? India does not recognize its biggest problem ? 'States Need Autonomy'. Oligarchs control the Congress party as well as the BJP. In recent days, developments in West Bengal indicate that oligarchs control the communists too. They do not have any interest in giving powers to local people in non-Hindi speaking states. They do not want to provide autonomy for states. Since Friday night, ULFA militants went on a rampage targeting Hindi-speakers in upper Assam, killing 48 people and wounding at least 25. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://assamnet.org/pipermail/assam_assamnet.org/attachments/20070108/0a50be9a/attachment-0001.html ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 07:26:59 +0000 From: "Bartta Bistar" Subject: [Assam] ??sovereignty of the country cannot be compromised under any circumstances,? says Jaiswal. Neither Assam can let India kill off Sovereign Assam. Look at the International scenario India, stolen Sovereignties going to the rightful owners. To: AssamNet Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" *Govt open to talks with Ulfa* Web posted at: 1/8/2007 1:31:31 Source ::: IANS http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=India&month=January2007&file=World_News2007010813131.xml Tinsukia (Assam) ? The government yesterday offered to hold peace talks with the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa), the rebel group blamed for a wave of attacks that killed 48 Hindi-speaking people in Assam this week. "The Ulfa should shun the path of violence and come forward to resolve their demands through negotiations with the government. Our doors for peace talks are open for the Ulfa and all other militant groups in the country," Minister of State for Home Sriprakash Jaiswal told reporters here. "The militants can resolve their demands through talks, but issues like sovereignty of the country cannot be compromised under any circumstances," he added. The minister made the offer of talks at the end of a daylong visit to the state to make an on-the-spot assessment of the situation after the Ulfa killed migrant workers in at least a dozen separate raids for two straight days beginning on Friday in eastern Assam. "The killings are nothing but acts of desperation," the minister said. The minister announced that it would rush additional paramilitary soldiers to to fight separatists . "The Central government will send adequate reinforcement of paramilitary forces immediately to tackle the situation and ensure security of common people in Assam," said Jaiswal, who is on a daylong visit to the state for an on-the-spot assessment following the killings. He hinted at a joint offensive against the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) by security forces of both Assam and adjoining Arunachal Pradesh where the outfit has set up bases to carry out their hit-and-run guerrilla strikes. Jaiswal, accompanied by a team of top Home Ministry officials, arrived by a special flight in the eastern town of Dibrugarh and headed for the small industrial township of Doomdooma to visit family members of some of the victims of one of the massacres. "We shall do our best to ensure security for the common people and assure to send additional paramilitary reinforcements," the minister said at the meet.He hinted at a joint offensive against the Ulfa by security forces of both Assam and adjoining Arunachal Pradesh where the outfit has set up bases to carry out hit-and-run guerrilla strikes. "The Home Minister talked about a joint security offensive involving both Assam and Arunachal Pradesh to flush out the Ulfa. It is a fact that the militants sneak back to their bases in Arunachal when there are offensives in Assam," said an army commander who wished not to be identified. The Assam government had sought 78 paramilitary companies (about 7,800 troopers) from New Delhi for effective anti-insurgency operations. Earlier, Jaiswal, accompanied by a team of top home ministry officials, arrived in Dibrugarh by a special flight and headed for the small industrial township Doomdooma to visit family members and injured victims of one of the massacres. Meanwhile, streets in eastern Assam wore a deserted look with an indefinite curfew and shoot-on-sight orders issued late Saturday. "We shall review the situation to see if we can relax curfew for a few hours to enable people to stock up on essentials," an official said. There were no overnight reports of violence and the situation was gradually limping back to normal, a police spokesman said. "Security forces have fanned out across the region with the army, police, and paramilitary troopers engaged in a systematic anti-insurgency offensive," Hazarika said. Authorities in eastern Assam have formed several peace committees involving leaders of all communities to instil confidence among the Hindi-speaking minority in the area. "These peace committees are working as vigilantes and helping the affected people to come to terms with reality and trying to heal the wounds," a senior police official said. Most of the victims were from the eastern state of Bihar who had made Assam their home for decades and were doing odd jobs as brick kiln workers, fishing and as daily wage earners.Most of the victims were from the eastern state of Bihar who had made Assam their home for decades and were doing odd jobs as brick kiln workers, fishing, and as daily wage earners. In 2000, Ulfa militants killed at least 100 Hindi-speaking people in Assam in a series of well-planned attacks after the rebel group vowed to free the state of all 'non-Assamese migrant workers'. The Ulfa is yet to claim responsibility for the recent attacks. Meanwhile, three ministers from Bihar visited violence-torn eastern Assam and appealed to the Hindi-speaking community to exercise restraint. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://assamnet.org/pipermail/assam_assamnet.org/attachments/20070108/518bc8dc/attachment-0001.html ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:35:48 +0530 From: "mc mahant" Subject: Re: [Assam] sovereignty of the country cannot be compromised under any circumstances, says Jaiswal. Neither Assam can let India kill off Sovereign Assam. Look at the International scenario India, stolen Sovereignties going to the rightful owners. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected] Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://assamnet.org/pipermail/assam_assamnet.org/attachments/20070108/ab994393/attachment-0001.html ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:21:31 +0530 From: "mc mahant" Subject: [Assam] Filthy Scotland To: [email protected] Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://assamnet.org/pipermail/assam_assamnet.org/attachments/20070108/e9f2b862/attachment-0001.html ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 04:44:55 -0800 (PST) From: SANDIP DUTTA Subject: Re: [Assam] Sensible words on occupational hegemony. Indians must also realise the role of Assam Congress in making Assam a property of Indian congress stealing from the nation of Assam and force their parliament return of that property to its rightful owners. To: Bartta Bistar , AssamNet Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" So as per Chadda-ji, no two ethnic communities can live together because all want autonomy, isnt it? And what is the solution, break up the country like Yugoslavia and afterwards keep fighting for a thousand more years? By that logic, what is it in Assam that would hold it together? Why should other ethnic minorities of Assam - Bodos, Karbis, Dimasas, Tiwas etc etc. accept the hegemony of ULFA and its so called Assamese nationhood enforced down the throat? Rgds, Sandip ----- Original Message ---- From: Bartta Bistar To: AssamNet Sent: Monday, January 8, 2007 6:25:36 PM Subject: [Assam] Sensible words on occupational hegemony. Indians must also realise the role of Assam Congress in making Assam a property of Indian congress stealing from the nation of Assam and force their parliament return of that property to its rightful owners. READERS REACT http://www.northeasttribune.com/ 'Central Government responsible for ULFA attacks against Biharis' By: Sudhir Chadda January 6: India does not recognize its biggest problem. India is actually thirty "Iraqs" ready to explode on the face of the Central Government. India is a very diverse country controlled by 'Hindi' (or languages close to Hindi) speaking oligarchs. People from different states live for decades in various regions. These long-term migrant workers take away jobs from the local people. India is on 'high' of earning foreign exchange and outsourcing money from the Western nations while it has done little for giving autonomy for non- Hindi speaking states. In this whole equation North Eastern states are most neglected. For example Hindi speaking (or close to Hindi) speaking oligarchs control the Tea Garden in Assam. When British left India in 1947, they very cunningly handed the assets over to these oligarchs knowing very well India will explode with sectarian violence in sixty to seventy years. While these rich Hindi speaking oligarchs treat local natives badly, the local natives form insurgent groups. This insurgent group cannot attack well-fortified oligarchs because of super security by Indian forces for oligarchs. They go after local poor Hindi speaking long-term migrant workers. Central Government of India responsible for ULFA attacks against Biharis in Assam ? India does not recognize its biggest problem ? 'States Need Autonomy'. Oligarchs control the Congress party as well as the BJP. In recent days, developments in West Bengal indicate that oligarchs control the communists too. They do not have any interest in giving powers to local people in non-Hindi speaking states. They do not want to provide autonomy for states. Since Friday night, ULFA militants went on a rampage targeting Hindi-speakers in upper Assam, killing 48 people and wounding at least 25. _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around === message truncated === --------------------------------- Heres a new way to find what you're looking for - Yahoo! Answers --------------------------------- Heres a new way to find what you're looking for - Yahoo! Answers
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