We have updated Bhupenda's website Home page to include a full length (4.36
minutes) beautiful rendering of Bhupenda's most popular song, "Maanuhe
Maanuhar Baabe" presented by the young and adult performers of Assam. This
video is produced by Arati Baruah of Seattle, Washington, USA in association
with the Dr.Bhupen Hazarika Literary & Cultural Forum (BHLCF). Also, in
addition to Bhupenda's voice you will hear Sudakshina Sarma (Queen Baidew)
and Samar Hazarika joining in singing the song. A must see video with
excellent presentation by all the performers. In addition, after this video
completes in the Home page, other Bhupenda's rare songs will continue - don't
miss them, unless you want to move to other options like Bhupenda's videos,
photos, Individual or Continuous song options.
http://bhupenda-live.com
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The website of writer Monikuntala Bhattacharjya :
http://www.monikuntalabhattacharjya.com
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Subject: [Assam] Justice the American way and its application in
India?
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http://www.hindustantimes.com/editorial-views-on/Edits/The-sooner-the-better
/Article1-950099.aspx
Rajat Gupta, the former boss of consulting firm McKinsey & Co sentenced to
a
two-year prison term for passing insider information from the Goldman
Sachs
and Proctor & Gamble boardrooms to a hedge fund manager, draws a lot of
sympathy for his philanthropy and from the fact that he was the poster boy
of the Indian diaspora. Neither should take away from the severity of his
crime or the speedy US justice delivery mechanism that has handed out the
punishment. It is less than a year since Mr Gupta was indicted for tipping
Raj Rajaratnam - founder of the Galleon Group hedge fund who was convicted
in May 2011 - and the verdict has been delivered. Mr Gupta's prosecutors
sought his conviction for crimes committed between 2007 and 2009. The US
judicial system has thus wrapped up the investigation and prosecution
within
three years.
Contrast this with the way India metes out justice to its white-collar
criminals. Satyam's B Ramalinga Raju confessed to his crime in 2009 and
his
trial is still on. Big Bull Harshad Mehta was tried for nine years and he
died in prison of a heart attack soon after the conviction. A former UTI
official died undergoing trial in the US-64 scam. Last November,
86-year-old
Sukh Ram was sentenced by a court to five years in prison for accepting a
bribe of Rs. 3 lakh as telecommunications minister in 1996. Delays in
investigation and prosecution bring criminals to book much after their
crimes have faded from public memory. This reduces the deterrence value of
the punishment. Besides delayed justice, its administration is leaky. The
Securities and Exchange Board of India has alleged that stockbroker Ketan
Parekh is active on the bourses through clients despite being debarred
from
trading for allegedly manipulating the market. Small investors duped by CR
Bhansali in 1997 are beginning to get back what's left of their money now.
The message from the US courtroom is here is Mr Gupta, a man who may have
done a lot of good for society - advising premier American institutions
like
Harvard University and the Kellogg School of Management, and working with
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fight Aids, tuberculosis and
malaria
across the world - but he slipped once, and has to pay for it in time.
Swirling corruption charges in India over the last two years, like the one
over the grant of telecom licences by former minister A Raja, would have
settled down far before the verdicts in these cases.
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