Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:00:37 -0500
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Subject: RE: [Assam] For your reading sir
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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."
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