C-da,
You are so right!!
You don't owe anything to anyone in this world. You are so self made. My hats
(wollen cap) off to you!! You are the man!! Your are the only true one!
Umesh
Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
>
>
>
>
>
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