Please try to look deeper into the situations of North East before commenting like this. If you look a little back, you will find that the gross per capita income in Assam was much above the national average. Whereas, it is much below at present. Assam was a very peaceful state than the socalled advanced states of India before 80s. Present scenario is not like that...why? (Ofcourse most of the incidents are blown out of proportions also in most cases...and similar cases are happening elsewhere in India as well). This region was doing international buisness through sea route (through present Bangladesh),had trade and other relations with the neighbouring countries like Burma. In fact, Burma was under same british before Independence. But, see the present situation--- This region is completely landlocked now and connected through the famous narrow 'chicken neck' with the rest of the world. When 'oil' was first discovered in 'Digboi' in remotest part of Assam, the british established the fist oil refinery at 'Digboi' itself. Because, that was the most cost-effective way to do. This also changed the lifestyle of the people in that area. But, see what the Independent India did later on. It laid thousand kilometers of pipeline to take oil from Assam to establish a refinery at Baruani, Bihar. Later on, the Assamese had to revolt seperately for 3 more refineries to be established out of its own crude oil and mind it...the total capacity of the first 3 refineries were less than that of one single refinery in Baruani. Assam produces highest tea in India and you know the tea head quarter is there in Kolkata only. Till 80's...there were not a single tea auction centre in Assam. And the list goes on...... We the northeast Indian do often encounter some of querries from the rest of the Indian...like...'do we need passport to visit North East'. So please donot comment irresponsibly like this anymore.. Regards Gautam Choudhury --- On Thu, 14/6/12, Manish Chandi <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Manish Chandi <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [andamanicobar] Remember Operation Leech To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, 14 June, 2012, 10:09 AM in India's 'look east' policy, there unfortunately are only guns, money and steel (steal)...nothing about working with potential friends. Manish >________________________________ > From: Amlan Dutta <[email protected]> >To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, 13 June 2012 3:44 PM >Subject: [andamanicobar] Remember Operation Leech > > > >Dear Members, > >Sorry for the cross posting but I just couldnt resist sharing this Blog : > >Remember Operation Leech and the forgotten Burmese prisoners languishing long >years in Presidency Jail. > >Here is a blog which beautifully summarizes how our Government keeps making >strategic mistakes and how we let down these Burmese rebels and where we stand >now. > >http://ibnlive.in.com/blogs/flyingtrapeze/148/63591/how-india-missed-the-burma-bus.html > > > >Amlan Dutta > >http://www.facebook.com/amlan.dutta > >---------------------------------------------------------- > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] __._,_.___ Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a new topic Messages in this topic (2) Recent Activity: New Members 2 Visit Your Group Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use . __,_._,___ _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
