Nayan-da,
That is brave comment. I would advise that you do not put your address etc
here -- ULFA might take notice of your views!
***And Chandan da I do not want to trap you and make you come out of your
UTOPIAN dream. I think you should stay that way. It will be less harmful for
the people of this land because you are SAFE in UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Your
family does not have to worry about whether you will come back home safely from
the market. THE PEOPLE HERE IN THIS LAND THINK IT EVERY MOMENT WHEN THEY GO OUT
OF THEIR HOME. WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THEY THINK? CAN YOU FEEL THE ANGUISH
OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS LAND?
Umesh
Nayanjyoti Medhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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From: Nayanjyoti Medhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Feb 18, 2007 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Response to Chitta-III
To: Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dear Chandan Da and Bhuban Da,
Please don't mind me replying to you both through these following few lines.
First of all let me thank Chandan da for the compliment:
Nayan asks good questions, but he is getting ahead of himself, like Dilip
Deka did yesterday. The questions also demonstrate a profound inadequacy of the
understanding of makings of a democratic state, how it is supposed to
function, and the citizens' responsibilities towards making it work. I would
have hoped, people like Nayan, an advocate of the high-court, would have been
more educated about it. But unfortunately it is yet another result of the
colonial style of governance, controlled from a remote location, that failed to
create the institutions at the grassroots level empowering them to learn how to
govern themselves, while our educational system bypassed it entirely, creating
generations of otherwise highly skilled people, whose idea of a democratic
state begins and ends with the vaunted desi 'elekshuns'. Had India attempted to
establish local institutions of democratic self-governance, instead of adopting
the colonial rulers' top-down,remote controlled approach; sixty plus years
since independence, India would have become a far better state today and would
not be fighting insurgencies and rebellions all across the
length and breadth of its territories, born out of the unresponsiveness and
failure to deliver on its responsibilities.
coming from Chandan da, i take his (yellow highlighted) words as a compliment
because I am yet to cross 30 years of age. And I also would like to THANK
Chandan da for (see red highlighted) the clarification. i think this ongoing
revolution (if you THINK it can be defined as a REVOLUTION) is also being
controlled from a remote location, [leaving the illegal immigrants to fill the
vacant jobs or work or fields] that failed to create the institutions at the
grassroot level empowering them to learn how to govern themselves. [Chandan da
seems to have forgotten the panchayats which are doing a decent if not good job
in the villages (see blue highlight above)].
I must make it very clear at this point that I am not an Advocate of the
Indian Government. Neither am I an irresponsible citizen of this land
(ASSAM/AXOM etc.,) who will instigate my brothers to take up arms and die in
jungles from unknown bullets so that illegal immigrants can come and take away
the land on which these boys could have worked and fed their families.
And Chandan da I do not want to trap you and make you come out of your
UTOPIAN dream. I think you should stay that way. It will be less harmful for
the people of this land because you are SAFE in UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Your
family does not have to worry about whether you will come back home safely from
the market. THE PEOPLE HERE IN THIS LAND THINK IT EVERY MOMENT WHEN THEY GO OUT
OF THEIR HOME. WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THEY THINK? CAN YOU FEEL THE ANGUISH
OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS LAND?
--
Nayanjyoti Medhi
Advocate
Gauhati High Court
Chamber:
Satya Bora Lane, Dighalipukhuri East
Guwahati-781001, Assam
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Basistha Road, Guwahati-28
Assam
Phone:
+91 361 2416960
+91 94350 43007
+91 99547 13443
Email:
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