C'da, >**** You are such a nice person Ram, you scare me :-).
I have always maintained a B'deshi is a 'B'deshi, and India cannot have one policy for one kind and a different one for the other. The problem is whenever the illegal B'deshi problem is brought up, JUST like these MLAs wanting special treatment for 'Hindu B'deshis', there many other groups and individuals who try to paint any serious discussion on the subject as being anti-Muslim or some 'lungi kheda' drive. And that is unfortunate. This is about national policy matters, and not about the whims and desires of some political party or individuals. It is also about India protecting it's territorial integrity, and the GOI should just implement it's border control/immigration policy. >If we had to go by yesterday's Sentinel editorial piece that you admired, Only certain parts, not all. Hopefully, forwarding doesn't mean a complete endorsement. >Finally when students do that, taking to the streets and shutting things down, does it REALLY lead to >any meaningful action, or for that matter any action at all? >Pushing students for is merely yet another admission, except on the sly, that the government is dysfunctional, >unresponsive, incapable. You might have missed it - but I did mention something about students as an aside. IMHO. The idea of involving students to galvanize political action is one of the worst things a state or country can do. Students just need to be in the classrooms. Involving students is passe at best, and these days, in most developed countries, students keep to the classrooms, and leave politics to politicians. But, look at the scenario in India - students are signatories to national accords, are treated like State representatives, are courted by politicians, and even journalists like Bikash Sarmah expect students to take to do something. Maybe, they are the last hopes of a stagnant and moribund society, and it needs students to rescue it from all kinds of problems. --Ram On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Chan Mahanta <[email protected]> wrote: > >Neither group ought to be encouraged - specially by MLAs > > > > **** You are such a nice person Ram, you scare me :-). > The only thing left now is about what they OUGHT to do. And if they don't > do what they > ought to, who should be the next line of defense? > > If we had to go by yesterday's Sentinel editorial piece that you admired, > it would be the YOUTH, students! > I didn't quite know how students do that, other than by taking to the > streets or shutting things down. > Do you? > > Finally when students do that, taking to the streets and shutting things > down, does it REALLY lead to > any meaningful action, or for that matter any action at all? > > Pushing students for is merely yet another admission, except on the sly, > that the government is dysfunctional, > unresponsive, incapable. > > > > > > > > > On Aug 21, 2010, at 11:52 PM, Ram Sarangapani wrote: > > > Hi Uttam, > > > > Don't know what the deal is, but to me illegal Hindu B'deshis are no > > different from illegal Muslim B'deshis. > > Neither group ought to be encouraged - specially by MLAs > > > > --Ram da > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:52 PM, uttam borthakur < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Three MPs and two MLAs of the Assam Unit of BJP have lodged a demand to > >> grant citizenship to Hindu-Bengalis migrating from Bangladesh. They are > Ms. > >> Bijoya Chakrabarty, Kabindra Purkayastha, Rajen Gohain, Mission Ranjan > Das > >> and Sushil Dutta. They have disclosed it in press meet on 21 August at > New > >> Delhi according to a report in Pratidin today. > >> > >> > >> Uttam Kumar Borthakur > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
