C Da,
Please stop your cut and paste routine and reply to my views. i am sorry to
see that you have altogether avoided the example (you) i have cited in my
views. i have also included the possible solution (although its in one or
two words only) which needs to be further deliberated upon so as to fine
tune it, but i see that you have decided to remain silent on that front too.
But yes, this confirms my views on what i have written earlier on turning
your back on the situations. and it would be further helpful if you can give
some concrete facts about this independence thing. just like Chittaranjan
Pathak has made up his mind that independence is bad, yours too is made up
that it is good. but he has been able to cite history and present supporting
his views whereas you have been repeating the same thing
(INDEPENDENCE) without giving any concreate supporting evidence for the
same.
i would further invite you to give your views on "THE BASIC UNIT OF ANY
SOCIETY IS ALWAYS AN INDIVIDUAL" in relation to your going to america and
its implication on assam (assamese society).
On 2/28/07, Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Nayan:
I am very pleased to see this note from you. You are the FIRST and ONLY
one to ACKNOWLEDGE :
*" i only liked the one you wrote about "Assam's governmental system". i
liked it because it is what is required.*
*** That WAS the thrust of my entire effort.
*** Oh, I know there are others who know that too. Some don't express it,
because they are with it; have been all along. There are others who DID NOT
* expect* to see what I proposed. They thought I was about to hang myself
and gave me all the rope to help me along :-). The deafening silence however
is understandable:
One can decry it, but at the cost of losing all credibility.
Some truly don't know and yet others play 'no-comprendo' :-) and
thus unable to decide if it is good, bad or no different.
Some have long decided, out of their own lack of self-assurance
and lack of faith in their own abilities that these are UTOPIAN
ideas which others like them--(kharkhowas after all:-( --will
never
be able to attain. Governance to them is such a mysterious thing,
thanks
to the perception they grew up with: That once the polity elected
their govt. 'democratically', that is the end of THEIR
responsibilities.
Thus talking about something unattainable only will only
encourage and egg-on the disaffected, which will put at risk
whatever
they and their near and dear ones have eked out so far, either by
their own efforts or thru the largesse of reverse Robinhoodism of
Assam and Indian Govts.
>What you want for Assam is laudable but is it what the people want? I
think Mr. >Chittaranjan Pathak has more or less placed the true state of
affairs from past >to present.
*** I do not see Chitta's post in that light. His mind is made up on the
fact that 'independence for Assam is BAD---so don't bother me with the facts
of WHY it is even needed', just like all most others here.
*** What YOU write however requires further deliberation:* "--but is it
what the people want?"*
That has to be looked at in view of WHAT they KNOW. Do the people KNOW
what they want and WHY they want it?
That is why I posed the question about Independence: Is it a TROPHY or a
TOOL?
*** This was NEVER explored and discussed by Assam intelligentsia--the
people who lead, and educate their uninformed.
That is exactly why WE need to analyze it, discuss it, help people
understand WHERE the root of their disaffections lie, what possible
solutions may be and of course they could be attained. That independence is
an essential TOOL and not merely a trophy or an end unto itself, like many
of our friends have long accepted.
*** But without doing that, to assert that the PEOPLE don't WANT it, like
Chitta does and many others past or present do, is not a RATIONALE stance.
Should not be.
What do you think?
c-da
PS: Thanks for sharing your background. It is very impressive. I hope it
will take you places :-).
At 11:09 PM +0530 2/28/07, Nayanjyoti Medhi wrote:
C Da,
Sorry for the slight delay but i wanted to go through what the
consolidated reading of your whole series meant to me. When i congratulated
you on your piece, i did not mean all the things you wrote. i only liked the
one you wrote about "Assam's governmental system". i liked it because it is
what is required. but that does not in any way mean that it is also
attainable ans ofcourse sustainable once somehow its attained.
next, although i had made up my mind to share a few thoughts with assamnet
about your whole series, but in light of what Mr. Chittaranjan Pathak has
written all i wanted to share has become redundent. i could not possibly
have said it better than him. What you want for Assam is laudable but is it
what the people want? I think Mr. Chittaranjan Pathak has more or less
placed the true state of affairs from past to present.
But from my limited intelligence and experience what i have been able to
conclude is that the main question that needs to be deabted now is not how
to gain independence and what will happen if Assam is ever made/gains
independent (independence). Infact the main question is that why
independence and what to do to stop this bloodshed in the name of
independence.
I think the answer is right in front of us. economic and social upliftment
of assam (assamese society). now you will say that everybody knows this. of
course they do. but why nothing is happening?
let us take an example. say your example- why did you leave assam and go
to america. because america could offer you more than what assam or for that
reason, india could offer you (what more commonly is known as brain
drain). i think that one of the main reasons of your going to america is the
better living standards there (read with better economic conditions for you
and your family/ better education for your children and so on). now the
question arises as to how to retain persons like you in assam. the answer
would be to offer you something more than what america is offering. if assam
cannot retain its people then how can it prosper. and is it the duty of only
the government to do the spoonfeeding for its intellects? the best brains of
assam are either NRA's or DEAD (in jungles of BHUTAN, MYANMAR, ASSAM
ARUNACHAL etc.,). so who's left in assam to manage its
resources. inexperienced duds like us ofcourse.
so now another question arises as to who is to be blamed for this pathetic
situation of assam. the people of assam / government of india / assam who
are somehow keeping it all under control or the better capables with
sufficient knowhow and intellect who could have contributed to the
development of assam and the assamese society but instead chose to show
their backs to the situation and are living happily as NRAs and like to
debate on internet showing off their computer skills.
i'll let you and all others who crave independence for assam decide this.
and another thing i'd like to bring to your notice "THE BASIC UNIT OF ANY
SOCIETY IS ALWAYS AN INDIVIDUAL" and it come out from your very own
example. you decided to go to america for your own benefit, not for assam.
if you had any feelings for assam then you would have stayed back and fought
for the betterment of this society / system.
And as for my inexperience:
I have a Degree in Political Science
and am a practising lawyer in Gauhati High Court having my very own
Chamber
Was the Class Representative to the Students Union in J. B Law College
was awarded the Rashtrapati Scout award in 1996.
was the General Secretary of the B. Borooah College Mountaineering and
Allied Sports Unit.
represented Assam in the East Zone Sport Climbing competition held in
Kolkata in 1997 and 98
still hold the 2nd position among rock climbers in Assam (till the last
competition which was held in 2003)
Am a member of the Explorers Mountaineering club
was member of the pioneer Rafting Expeditions in Beki and Namsang rivers
Was a News Stringer for DD NEWS (Guwahati) and also produced various
documentaries on the socio economic problems and solutions for the PPC (NE)
and i do not live in a fools paradise.
--
Nayanjyoti Medhi
Advocate
Gauhati High Court
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