U: Learn to rtead and comprehend third grade English. It will do yhou good.
cm ---- umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > >____________________________________________________________________________________ > >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 > > > > Umesh Sharma > 5121 Lackawanna ST > College Park, > (Washington D.C. Metro Region) > MD 20740 > > 1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone] > > Ed.M. - International Education Policy > Harvard Graduate School of Education, > Harvard University, > Class of 2005 > > weblog: http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/ > website: www.gse.harvard.edu/iep > > --------------------------------- > Copy addresses and emails from any email account to Yahoo! Mail - quick, > easy and free. Do it now... _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
