Ooops! My bad. It is Tarun Gogoi I meant :-).
DD: Tarun Gogoi probably is talking about unexplored and
underutilized >(natural?) resources. If resources are left where
they are, sure India will >have to continue to support Assam. Did
Gogoi include human resources also?
*** I certainly would NOT speculate on what the CM had in mind. I
think the concerned people should ask HIM what he meant. A good place
to ask him that will be at the AANA convention in Boston where I
understand he will be the Chief guest. And just so he is not
discomfited at a social gathering by being unprepared, he should be
given an advance list of questions that the CONCERNED may have. Of
course I won't hold my breath about the CONCERNS. Those may
altogether be absent. But if they are expressed, and appropriate
questions are asked with an aim to get REAL answers, as opposed to
evasive gobledy-gook, I will stand corrected and even apologize to my
fellow markhowas for doubting their inquisitiveness and CONCERNS.
There are a number of corollaries to the CM's claim here.
A: Does the comment apply to the tenure of his administrations or does
it extend to prior administrations as well?
If it does extend to the past, does it apply to the period PRIOR to the
ANDWLON and the emergence of ULFA thereafter?
B: If his comment is factual, then where did all the funds go, what
is there to show for as Assam's development?
And if there is not much to show for, WHAT happened to all those funds?
Where did they end up and WHO is RESPONSIBLE for it?
C: How did the CM decide whether what India gives Assam is MORE or LESS
than what Assam could generate on its own, regardless of the present
or the past or both? Would he kindly share the facts and figures to
substantiate his claim?
D: If India gives MORE than what Assam can produce on its own, and
thus MORE than what Assam DESERVES, it is a handout, a charity, an
act of Indian 'bodanyota'.
Does it therefore mean that Assam is condemned to live off Indian
handouts, Indian charity? Do the Assamese have any sense of pride
in their own abilities to live honorably and prosper, on their own?
E: And even if Assam has no pride and is perfectly willing to live
off Indian handouts, as a dependency, (like it has for so many
decades, or so it must be construed) is it SUSTAINABLE? Can Assam
DEPEND on such Indian charity for ever? WHO are the Indians who
DECIDE how much is RIGHT to support Assam? What is the formula
they use, or must Assam just depend on the goodwill of its sustainers
at Dilli, combined with the BEGGING PROWESS of its government at Dispur
like CM Gogois admin.? And if Assam makes a terribly foolish choice of
not electing a Congressi govt., the charity pipeline just might
get tightened?
F: Finally WHO are those people of Assam, who have signed off on living
a life of dependency, of 'bhikhyaris', on Indian 'bodanyota'? Is it
the majority of Assam?
More on the other points later.
In the meantime, let us hear from the pride-of-Assam about their
pride, or more accurately SHAME of living like leeches off India, as
proven by the CM Gogoi, and their oh-so-clearly pronounced desires
to remain an Indian dependency!
Can Assam DEPEND on that for ever, more so
when we know that even such outstanding acts of Indian charity has
not been able to lift Assam out of its miseries in all these sixty
plus years after independence.
At 7:52 AM -0700 6/12/07, Dilip/Dil Deka wrote:
By Prafulla Gogoi and PG you must have meant Tarun Gogoi, the
current chief minister of Assam. Prafulla is a Mahanta and Gogoi is
a Tarun.
Anyway,
*** That Assam is getting far more from India than it own
resources could provide
( or something akin to that).
DD: Tarun Gogoi probably is talking about unexplored and
underutilized (natural?) resources. If resources are left where they
are, sure India will have to continue to support Assam. Did Gogoi
include human resources also?
*** That there were one or two military excesses over
innocent civilians and that the military
personnel were also punished .
DD: To Tarun Gogoi, most of the military actions must look
justified, including the ones against civilians, (with one or two
excesses). What else would you expect a chief minister to say? He is
the one who calls in more and more paramilitary force.
*** That the elections are the referendums,
DD: Referendum on what? The participation of the citizens in the
election definitely is not a referendum on the sovereignty issue.
But it reflects the desire of the citizens to participate in the
electoral process as conducted under the Indian constitution,
ignoring ULFA's call to boycott election. If the citizens also did
not care for staying with India, they could have caused much
disruption by boycotting all elections in the last thirty years.
Participation in elections apparently has grown.
a page right out of Goerge W. Bush's infamous
retort to reporters' query on whether the American people
continue to support the Iraq war.
Difference is that GWB won't attempt that line any more,
while PG has the gall to do that, with
none of our 'intellectuals' challenging it.
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Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have to agree. It is one of the more objective pieces I have seen
to date. And it took Al Jazzera to do that, IMAGINE!
Among the various things in the documentary, Prafulla Gogoi's
comments were what stunned me. I am
sure the editors of the documentary thought so too, to include them
in the highlights of his interview:
*** That Assam is getting far more from India than it own
resources could provide
( or something akin to that).
*** That there were one or two military excesses over
innocent civilians and that the military
personnel were also punished .
*** That the elections are the referendums, a page right out
of Goerge W. Bush's infamous
retort to reporters' query on whether the American people
continue to support the Iraq war.
Difference is that GWB won't attempt that line any more,
while PG has the gall to do that, with
none of our 'intellectuals' challenging it.
Each of the three above points are loaded comments that require a
thorough examination. I wonder what netters think.
At 8:57 PM -0700 6/11/07, Dilip/Dil Deka wrote:
I thought the reporting by Al Jazeera was good. It was impartial
and to the point.
Dilip Deka
=================================================================
umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
C-da,
You are welcome.
here is second part
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP2JVQATGz0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpriyankoo%2Ebihu%2Ein%2F1530%2F>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP2JVQATGz0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpriyankoo%2Ebihu%2Ein%2F1530%2F
part 2
Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 10:30 AM -0700 6/11/07, umesh sharma wrote:
Hi Umesh:
Thanks for posting the Al Jazeera piece on Bloody Tea. I heard of
it, but never seen it earlier.
I wonder what our friends think of it.
c-da
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ApgM8cbxF8&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpriyankoo%2Ebihu%2Ein%2F1530%2F>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ApgM8cbxF8&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpriyankoo%2Ebihu%2Ein%2F1530%2F
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