NRAs are good with ideas! Bad in taking out $ € from pocket. NRIs are exemplary in both. Look at the kind and size of institutions they are building.
May be our NRAs are not that affluent. That I am speaking from my experience of raising funds for Srimanta Sankaradeva Bhawan, which is an excellent example of people -people cooperation. MKD On 3/18/11, Pallav <[email protected]> wrote: > Buljit, > > You are right (on the Academy part). We should have a Parijat Academy > blooming > in every corner of Assam/North East. The problem with the NRA community > (AFNA/FASS) is that we are short on ground level workers and not really > being > able to create the bridge back to Assam. > > Parijat Academy deserve all the focus it receives but at the same time its > unfortunate that the NRA community can't find another project of the same > scale, > vision and executive efficiency where they can put their resources on. AFNA > is > working with few other organizations in Assam (most notably, Atma Nirbhar, > Pragyalaya and Rickshaw Bank) but we need more. Ram da & Alpana Baideu is > innovating the way NRAs can extend help through building libraries, > providing > shoes and now initiating book banks for the blind students. If we can > identify > more academies in Assam, AFNA would be more than eager to help. > > Let us continue this drive! > > Thanks, > Pallav Please visit me at: http://www.xophura.org > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Buljit Buragohain <[email protected]> > To: [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected] > Sent: Fri, March 18, 2011 4:43:25 AM > Subject: Re: [Assam] An Academy in Every District of Assam > > > Dear All, > > It is really surprise that not a single reply on issue till today .Though > ,following are the numbers of members of the groups. > > > > > FriendsofAssamNE : 820Assamnet : ?????Assamonline : 2160Silchar: 776 > > NorthEastIndia : 582axomiya_students: 141 > > > AssamSociety : 83 > > > > > Thanks > > Buljit Buragohain > > > > > > > > --- On Tue, 15/3/11, Buljit Buragohain <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Buljit Buragohain <[email protected]> > Subject: An Academy in Every District of Assam > To: [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, 15 March, 2011, 11:46 PM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Dear All, > > I think it will be good to promote at least an Academy in every district of > Assam like Parijat Academy. > > > Thanks > > Buljit Buragohain > > > --- On Tue, 15/3/11, Ankur Bora <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Ankur Bora <[email protected]> > Subject: [FriendsofAssamNE] Re: Great effort > To: [email protected], "Support a child" > <[email protected]> > Cc: "assam org" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, 15 March, 2011, 10:35 AM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Respected Gautam Prasad Baroowah, > Thanks for your letter of appreciation about the second issue of Friends. > Friends is an effort by the non-residents spread all over the globe and I am > sharing your email below with the group. I would like add that Wahid saleh > has > compiled a list of achievers and success stories of non-residents of Assam > and > it was presented during the Prabasi Bharatiya Divas organized by Govt of > India. > > Along with the appreciation you also have set the bar high for us! While I > revere every word of you including your reference to the internationally > renowned writer with Friends , I would like point out that ours is a > modest > effort. We are a group of mostly amateur writers or scribblers. Majority of > us > are from technical background with little or no expertise for a high quality > journal. > > At the same time, I must say that your words have rekindled the > quintessential > value , the need to recognize our ability and tap what is inside us. Often, > greatness is just one inch away, but fear and lack of confidence in > ourselves > render us powerless. With great expectations comes the opportunity to > realize > them. By desiring more, we create the capacity to receive it. I wish that > our > writers and contributors will raise the bar, put a little extra effort and > lift > to heights we can barely imagine. > > Cheers, > Ankur > “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” , Henry Ford > > --- On Sun, 3/13/11, gautam prasadbarua <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: gautam prasadbarua <[email protected]> > Subject: Great effort > To: "Ankur Bora" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, March 13, 2011, 7:23 AM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Dear Ankur, > > Your friend Uttam Teron has sent me the magazine "Friends". It is indeed a > commendable effort from members of FASS from USA. please accept my > greetings. > your friend has also done a commendable work in promoting Parijat Academy. > greetings to him as well. > you have done very well by introducing great Achiever like Dr. Pradip jain, > Dr. > Saleh and many other. this would empower younger people of Northeast and > also > the young kids of Northeastern origin now residing in America. > > You are aware that though a few people of Northeast origin have done well > in > Business and teaching profession till now non have been recommended fro > Nobel > prize.There is no scientist worth the name. Try to find out if anyone is > doing > well and write about them. There are a few Economists who are highly rated > but I > do not know of any North easterner who has done well in as a scientist, > Business persons even as Doctor of > international reputation. You are in a better position to research and find > out > such persons and let northeast know about them. > > Include the news of young achievers. Try to find out which are the students > who > has received USPresidnt's award for studies. Which are the young kids > studying > in Harvard, or in Standford or in Kellogg or in MIT. Nobody in Assam knew > that > Ranjan was studying in MIT without spending any money of his father, purely > on > scholarship. Do you have an internationally known writer like Jumpa Lahiri. > I > understand there are a few Journalist who have done well in Washington Post > etc.. Write about them. > > Please accept my greetings for excellent magazine edited by you and by your > wife. > regards > GPB > > Gautam Prasad Baroowah > WebSite: http://gpbaroowah.esmartweb.com/ > My Blog: http://gpbaroowah.blogspot.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __._,_.___ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional > > Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) > > Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to > Fully Featured > > > > Visit Your Group > | > > Yahoo! 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