At 2:15 PM -0400 5/16/07, Mohan R. Palleti wrote: >UlFA has become a cankerous growth fuelled by a foreign virus. This growth >must stop!
*** Let us agree, for argument's sake, that it is so. The question then will be how to CURE that cancer. How does one STOP it? > >They should be given the opportunity to get out of it. Let them >come home, put down their guns and help in rebuilding Assam. This way they >will be remembered as heroes. *** Is this a wish or is it a plan? Surely I have seen innumerable attempts at WISHING ULFA away. But I don't believe anything has come out of it so far. So why should anyone give two hoots to what Mohan wishes, or for that matter what *I* wish? > >Mixing up with the ISI will never bring any >>respect to them. No Assamese worth their salt will ever forgive them for >this. *** We all like to think we represent all of us think alike. Unfortunately that is a delusion. ISI maybe the Devil incarnate to those Indians who live under the delusion that Kashmir is their 'poitrik xompotty' ( ancestral property) , never mind what the people who inhabit the ground want. But those who do not believe that, may very well not be moved by that connection, unless they too are harmed by ISI in some way. But most of all, if ISI is all that powerful and India is that impotent, in spite of its size, in spite of its wealth, in spite of its vaunted 'demokrasy', in spite of its how-many-thousand-years-old (?) civilization; then who needs such a paper tiger? Large segments of Assam, mercifully, is not that driven by anti-Islamic paranoia that many otherwise able and intelligent Indians are. >There is a good shift in the number of youth who have come out of >Assam to >take the opportunity of growth. *** That is nice. But anyone who can do some ordinary arithmetic and has a rudimentary knowledge of the geography of the region knows that the percentage of those who are participating in that 'growth', is minuscule. There are vast numbers of youth in the hinterland unseen by the geographically challenged urban 'haves' whose world view is defined by their own limited exposures and knowledge. That is another tragedy. >Nobody wants more bloodshed in the state. Nor does anyone want all the >ULFA to be picked and shot. They are our boys! They have made some >mistakes. They should be given the opportunity to get out of it. Let them >come home, put down their guns and help in rebuilding Assam. This way they >will be remembered as heroes. Mixing up with the ISI will never bring any >respect to them. No Assamese worth their salt will ever forgive them for >this. > >Now is the time for economic growth. While the rest of the country is >growing up, we are still worrying about whose tooth and whose nail. There >is a good shift in the number of youth who have come out of Assam to take >the opportunity of growth. But there is whole generation of misguided >youth for whom I feel sorry about.They have stepped back in their life, >living the life of a nowhere man with a nowhere plan in a foreign land. >What more worse can this be? > > >Mohan Rao Palleti > > >_______________________________________________ >assam mailing list >[email protected] >http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
