Mohan: My comments have to be viewed in totality of the CONTEXT, not by picking and choosing what is convenient for you.
cm At 8:26 AM -0400 5/16/07, Mohan R. Palleti wrote: >Some thoughts on the ongoing discussions: >Hordes of indians in Assam and taking over the economy..... >They are not invaders. Merely people from one state going to another. The >same way as the hordes of Assamese who decended in Hyderabad and are able >to earn a living working for "GE" Nobody looks at them as invaders...These >are the same people who had to leave Assam because there was no growth >there. > >Software companies who have dared to venture into Assam and are hiring >assmese graduates. Are they also considered invaders? > >The Lungi menace you are talking about does not seem to be a problem any >more. This is because our boys are wearing the same lungi in Bangladesh. > >Moreover if you call Indian people as invaders in Assam, what are we in >America? > > >Mohan Rao Palleti > > >> At 3:43 PM -0600 5/15/07, Ram Sarangapani wrote: >>> >but everything to do with defending against an invader. >>> >>>Exactly - and the hordes of illegal coming into Assam could actually >>>be considered as "invaders" >> >> >> *** True. Just like the hordes of Indians taking over Assam's >> economy, its land and its culture. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> >>>--Ram >>> >>>On 5/15/07, Chan Mahanta >>><<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>I am not into mind reading Ram. Less so of people long gone. >>>Besides, *I* am no fan of Lasit's act , make that whack; that made >>>him a kharkhowa hero. It has something to do with my abhorrence for >>>applauding or holding in high esteem an act of playing accuser, >>>prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner by the same person. But if >>>I were to guess, considering that many Ahoms and other indigenous >>>people took to Islam, voluntarily, and considering that in those >>>days the act of beef-eating was not that big a sin, particularly for >>>the Ahoms, the Lungi Menace would not have been a menace at all, >>>much less the scourge it appears to be to some of our latter day >>>Oxomiyas. >>> >>> >>>But Mirjumla's army was a wholly different issue. It had nothing >>>do with Aurangjeb's religion , their dietary habits or which way >>>they faced to say their prayers or being cut or intact; but >>>everything to do with defending against an invader. >>> >>> >>>:-) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>At 2:51 PM -0600 5/15/07, Ram Sarangapani wrote: >>> >>>>And how do you think Lachit would view the lungi menace? >>>> >>>:) :) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>On 5/15/07, Chan Mahanta >>><<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>That will depend on the degree of paranoia one harbors on the Great >>>Lungi Menace :-). >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>At 12:56 PM -0600 5/15/07, Ram Sarangapani wrote: >>>>America has 'What would Jesus do?' Would he buy an SUV? Would he >>>>reelect the GOP? >>>> >>>>And what would Lachit do if there were a bunch of Assamese holed up >>>>in Bangladesh and destroying Assam in the process? >>>> >>>>Just food for thought! >>>> >>>>--Ram >>>> >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>assam mailing list >>>><mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] >>>><http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org>http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
