Nonesense or Nonesense?
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From: mc mahant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:25:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] this was sent to me by a colleague, worth considering /
our Indian press and media / The 33rd NationalGames
Virebder Sehwag
b or n-- they will!
Bannh Khorir zooii ! That's what India is Busy burning
And Re this garbled nonesense:
We people in NE are worried lot... you know why? Not because of extremists
violence, but because we simply can not grow, since industries does not
comes up here... why ? How can the big corporates come (just a question: would
India have developed to this extent had East India not set foot here in India?)
when so bad impression about us is given to them
This is the solid reason why India should gladly let Assam go Sovereign. I love
this!
mm
From: "Manoj Das" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PRASANTA BORA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: Partha Gogoi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Bidyananda Barkakoty <[EMAIL
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Kalita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Pratul Kalita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Shantikam <[EMAIL
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Subject: Re: [Assam] this was sent to me by a colleague,worth considering /
our Indian press and media / The 33rd NationalGames
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:19:24 +0530
The media all over the world has become like that. Sensationalise. Everyone is
under pressure for more readership and TRPs.
A hurted groin of Virebder Sehwag will get more TV time and newsprint than all
the National Games put together. The National Games in Guwahati is no
exception, how many of you heard about the NG at Hyderabad?
-mk
On 2/20/07, PRASANTA BORA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sonal,
Hope you do not take it as an NE (North East) offensive on you....
We people in NE are worried lot... you know why? Not because of extremists
violence, but because we simply can not grow, since industries does not
comes up here... why ? How can the big corporates come (just a question: would
India have developed to this extent had East India not set foot here in India?)
when so bad impression about us is given to them?
I echo Parthas feeling... just visit this link:
<http://in.rediff.com/news/assam.htm> ..
According to it, nothing happened here in Assam since November... but only
thing happening still is extremism...is Assam a synonym of ULFA? This page
would make you think so! And the page is updated till 16th Feb! This is just an
example.
Excuse me for venting the emotions.... and it is nothing personal!
We are really a worried lot and hope you people in media would help us in
establishing what we are!
With regards,
P. Bora.
On 2/20/07, Partha Gogoi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
Sonal,
That was interesting reading. Thanks! But that is totally true of some of our
Indian media.
While missing out on the real heroes(which they think is mundane), some of them
focus on the
glamorous. Ultimately, it is the same kind of indulgence that the media in the
US is - keep
bombarding people with images of hopeless individuals such as Anna Nicole
Smith(who does not
deserve any news coverage).
One more case in point - the recently concluded 33rd National Games in
Guwahati, Assam was
declared the best ever by Indian Olympic Association President Mr Suresh
Kalmadi. If one were to
look at it in isolation, one might ask - what is the "big" deal? Its only a
sporting event, one
might say. Given the recent carnage and killings of the poor by ULFA and its
threat to disrupt the
games and all the confusion, a total of 11,000 participants and officials
descended upon Guwahati
city. The event went off without a major hitch - the state goverment managed to
conduct it in the
best way possible - local newpaper reports accounts of athletes who said that
they were initially
very "apprehensive" about the security situation and found a totally different
picture once they
landed in the city. Surely, this would have been good press material outside
the North East.
If some militants are killing or bombing in remote locations or there is some
social unrest in
Assam/North East, it comes out in "screaming headlines" in the metro media
(such as TOI /Indian
Express/Hindu/Telegraph etc). This time round, I was there visiting Guwahati in
the middle of all
the "so-called" chaos. Life went on as usual!! Unfortunately, metro media has
not displayed any
eagerness to report a "good", "positive" and "reinforcing" event such as the
33rd National Games -
I had been scouring through the websites of the main newspapers - did not see
any mention of it -
rather it had been relegated to the Sports section of the newspaper. The
headlines rather talk
about Sanjay Dutt or Abhishek-Ash and their kin or how some of our unknown
Indian expatriates are
doing well abroad etc.
I copy a few friends. This email from you reinforces the belief that Indian
media will not go the
route of the US media (which is totally controlled by the corporates and pander
to the taste of
lowest common denominator) - that there are people with ethics and credentials
who will pursue the
profession in the true spirit of journalism. I also owe you a response to all
your queries on how
the Assamese/NorthEastern-ers communicate using the new tools of this era.
Thanks,
Partha
--- Sonal Desai <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> By the time u guys read this news, the body of Major Manish Pitambare, who
> was shot dead at
> Anantnag, would have been cremated with full military honors.
>
> On Tuesday, this news swept across all the news channels 'Sanjay Dutt
> relieved by court'. 'Sirf
> Munna not a bhai' '13 saal ka vanvaas khatam' 'although found guilty for
> possession of armory,
> Sanjay can breath sigh of relief as all the TADA charges against him are
> withdrawn'
>
> Then many personalities like Salman Khan said 'He is a good person. We knew
> he will come out
> clean'. Mr Big B said "Dutt's family and our family have relations for years
> he's a good kid.
> He is like elder brother to Abhishek". His sister Priya Dutt said "we can
> sleep well tonight.
> It's a great relief"
>
>
> In other news, Parliament was mad at Indian team for performing bad; Greg
> Chappell said
> something; Shah Rukh Khan replaces Amitabh in KBC and other such stuff. But
> most of the emphasis
> was given on Sanjay Dutt's "phoenix like" comeback from the ashes of
> terrorist charges.
>
> Surfing through the channels, one news on BBC startled me. It read "Hisbul
> Mujahidin's most
> wanted terrorist 'Sohel Faisal' killed in Anantnag, India. Indian Major
> leading the operation
> lost his life in the process. Four others are injured.
>
> It was past midnight, I started visiting the stupid Indian channels, but
> Sanjay Dutt was still
> ruling. They were telling how Sanjay pleaded to the court saying 'I'm the
> sole bread earner for
> my family', 'I have a daughter who is studying in US' and so on.
>
> Sure Sanjay Dutt has a daughter; Sure he did not do any terrorist activity.
> Possessing an AK47
> is considered too elementary in terrorist community and also one who
> possesses an AK47 has a
> right to possess a pistol so that again is not such a big crime...........
>
> Major Manish H Pitambare got the information from his sources about the
> terrorists' whereabouts.
> Wasting no time he attacked the camp, killed Hisbul Mujahidin's supremo and
> in the process lost
> his life to the bullets fired from an AK47. He is survived by a wife and
> daughter (just like
> Sanjay Dutt) who's only 18 months old.
>
> Major Manish never said 'I have a daughter' before he took the decision to
> attack the terrorists
> in the darkest of nights. He never thought about having a family and he being
> the bread earner.
> No news channel covered this since they were too busy hyping Dutt.
>
> Parents of Major Manish are still living and they have to live rest of their
> lives without their
> beloved son. His daughter won't ever see her daddy again. Finally Major
> Manish, to my generation
> is a greater hero, someone who laid his life in the name of this great nation.
>
> It is a shame for us since this Army Major's death news was given by a
> foreign TV channel!!!
Partha Gogoi
Fairfax, VA
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