Alpana: >Oh! C'da. Your effort to spin everything that you do not support, is >just so transparent! With all due >respect, don't you preach >something like - you can fool ev
*** I understand :-). >I am not sure if Mr. Ramesh is looking down upon the state as a >whole or is he talking about the factors >responsible for this >low-production-stage. *** You missed the whole point, entirely! It is not about looking down upon or looking up to. It describes a serious systemic dysfunction-- of mai-baap's doles, however well intentioned or fair or even overly generous , at the cost of others, failing to do what it is meant to. But I understand you why you can't care less. Those are merely my spinning :-). c-da At 1:40 PM -0500 8/15/07, Alpana B. Sarangapani wrote: > >I am not sure I get the question, but are you meaning that if >those who chant "Joi Ai Oxom" and want Assam to be the master of >its own destiny, would be hypocritical because they ought to know >that by gaining control over its destiny, Assam >will also have to >forego prosperity ? > >Oh! C'da. Your effort to spin everything that you do not support, is >just so transparent! With all due respect, don't you preach >something like - you can fool everybody else but can't fool yourself? > >It is so obvious, but let me try again. What is the point of saying >'Joi Ai Oxom' and do everything against her prosperity and make sure >that she only faces 'porajoi' - like, making the state a killing >field, stealing money that needed to be used for Assam's >development, taking away freedom of expression from her citizenry, >in short, abusing her and her resources? > > > >If you read Sanjib Baruah's Post Frontier Blues, you will find a >staggering revelation in the chapter Subsidy as a Permanent >Condition: That India claims it spends about Rs 300,000,000 >annually for a population of about 32,000,000 in the seven >NE >states and Sikkim. That is nearly Rs. 10,000 per each person, >that is supposedly going for development. Indian policy-maker and >central minister Jairam Ramesh says "--it is going to ensure >cohesion with the rest of the country through a series >of >interlocutors that includes politicians, expatriate contractors, >extortionists, anybody but people working to deliver benefits to the >people for whom these expenditures are intended". "A surer way of >improving the economic conditions of the >intended beneficiaries", >he suggests tongue-in-cheek,"might be for the Indian government to >open bank accounts and deposit an annual check of Rs 10,000 for >every poor FAMILY in the NE." > > > > _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
