Bharat,
I agree you did not. I was responding to some of our friends having such a fixation!!!! Rajib >From: "Bharat B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Snail Mail: Postal Department, India >Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:15:36 -0400 > _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
--- Begin Message --->To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rajib Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Snail Mail: Postal Department, India >Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:09:41 -0500 > >That was a very good explantaion, Amlan. > > >But needs a couple of additional explanations to clear it up for our >befuddled friends: > > > >1: It is obvious that ONE arm of the Central govt. has failed in its duty >of delivering the mail in the manner it has promised the people. That in >itself is NOT a sin,or a crime meriting a federal case. It could have been >an accident. The mail truck from the PO to the airport could have been >washed away by flood waters. THe mail-deliverer might have used it to cook >his dinner. Whatever. > >2: But for the UPSC, another arm of the all knowing, all powerful Central >god of the nation, to have ignored the appeal to re-consider the issue, >even though its sibling, the postal dept. caused the problem for the >students; is unconcionable. > >3: Those who are entrusted with the powers, in this instance the many armed >god, OWNER of two arms involved, must be held responsible, ACCOUNTABLE. If >that does not happen, the whole exercise is MEANINGLESS. > > >Now how do the citizenry extract accountability? > > > a: By going to a reliable forum, where after a trustworthy and competent >investigation would establish guilt or innocence and if guilty would assess >damages, and may either recommend redress of the grievances or award >damages. > > b: Take to the streets, shut the whole place down. > > c: Go beat up the post-master. > > d: Call Assam Netters to judge. > > >I would now invite the befuddled Netters to examine which of the above >seems to be an appropriate tack? And if none above, perhaps something else? >I am not going to point out the right answer here, because if the befuddled >pick the right ones themselves, they would have ownership of the >decision--and therby will be a far better means of selling the idea ( >thanks to my management seminar fundas here!) > >4: I don't recall ANYONE, much less the perennial offender, yours truly; >who has claimed in THIS instance, that it was a case of discriminating >against the Assamese. It is either a case of serious reading/comprehension >deficiency or a case of some variation of bi-polar disorder causing hearing >of voices not sopken ( Dr. Tilok, any comments, if you are listening ?). > >I did however raise the possibility that the clerks-from-hell, the suck-up >and piss down bunch, who are not only expected to be able to read the >rule-books but also are expected to be able to exercise good judgement and >are paid to SERVE the citizenry with their tax rupees, might have iognored >the appeals, because the appealers were nobodies--just a bunch of losers >from Assam. If it were a bunch of students from DElhi, I do believe the >response might have been somewhat more thoughtful. I raise that possibility >because of my willingness to be observant and what I have seen. > > >cm :-) > > > >I did not cite this example to show discrimination against Assamese. Mind it, there will be non-Assamese from outside among those Sainik School students. My intention was to show the contradictory attitude of two arms of the same federal government. Cheers!
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