I was ONE of the LUCKY few. But it was NOT a GIFT or dole from India for me. India took much more from my people than it gave back. Out of nearly 1600 plus entrants to the 4- IITs my freshman year, there were less than six from Assam.
But oh, I forgot--it was the Assam people's own damn fault, right? My performance in college was NOT India's contribution--it was my own effort. The exposure is all India gets credit for. I OWE India nothing. But I give back to Assam, the USA as well as India. How much or what or in what form is MY business. It has nothing to do with the substance ( or lack thereof) of the things I advocate or the arguments I make in assamnet or anywhere else. At 1:52 PM -0800 2/28/07, Rajib Das wrote: >I assume you COULD go to America also because you went >to an institution in India funded by the Indian >government to get your education THAT opened the doors >for you there. I mean - you couldn't have walked >straight from Namti, could you? > >Evidently the Indian government did well by you - even >if you didn't do well by it or it didn't do well for >the rest of the people. > > >> > >And I agree that I left because I saw NO >> potential to advance my >> >own career or potential in >the society I was in. >> And it is true >> >that America provided me, an INDIVIDUAL, the >> >opportunities to >> >advance my interests and realize my potentials, as >> opposed to >> >POSING >OBSTACLES, like Indian governance does. In > > > > > >____________________________________________________________________________________ >Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast >with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. >http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
