>Status: U >Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 09:45:57 -0500 >From: Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.0.1) >Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 >X-Accept-Language: en-us, en >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Letter to the Editor > >Dear Editor: > >Just saw the letter from Mr. B.K. Bhuyan entitled Hello Readers Abroad. >His suggestion is an excellent one and we would love to see that happen. > >In the same vein, I would also like to suggest that the Assam Tribune or >other media outlets might find it beneficial to carry weekly, bi-weekly >or monthly >condensed versions of the many Assam related topics that we >'probaaxisOxomiyas' participate in through Assam Net, an Internet based >discussion forum. >It would allow us to participate with our brethren in an interactive >manner, which would benefit both Assam as well as the expatriates and >their children in keeping >the connections alive and meaningful. Readers can access Assam Net >through <http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam>. > >Finally, a comment on the topic of False Promise. Mr, Dhruba Jyoti >Deka's frustration is very understandable. However, expressing >frustrations over >politicians' ineptitude or dereliction of duty or even outright lies >would change nothing, until the citizens themselves get involved in >fixing what is broken >and work together for their collective welfare. The perception that once >politicians have been elected and sent to to the seat of government >to rule over them their responsibilities are over, is a terribly >simplistic notion at best. It is further complicated by our propensity >to let the governmental >machinery usurp more and more powers while serving the people less and >less. It is time the citizenry rises up, screams 'we have had enough' and >demands action. And if those who are entrusted with those >responsibilities still do not respond, then take things into their own >hands. That is the only >real solution. > >Yours truly, > >Chandan Mahanta >St. Louis, USA > >_______________________________________________________________________________ >_____________________________________________________________ > >Hello, readers abroad! >Sir, � Congratulations for having put your esteemed daily onto the >website thus enabling readers living abroad and outside Assam to keep >themselves informed about the happenings in Assam which I could see from >the amount of responses that you receive in your mailbox. I would like >to suggest to introduce a special column titled �Hello, readers abroad� >meant for the readers abroad to reciprocate the enthusiasm displayed >through their letter. � Yours etc., BK BHUYAN, Dr SK Bhuyan Road, Guwahati. >_______________________________________________________________________________ >_____________________________________________________________ > >False promise >Sir,� The letters on Guwahati city�s deteriorating road condition are >quite revealing. But I wonder politicians would ever look into these >matters seriously. It has been truly said that roads really reflect the >society. It's a shame on the part of the politicians that even after >more than 50 years of country�s independence they are still making false >promises like clean drinking water, good roads in their election >rallies. These things should have been taken care of much before. It's >really high time on the part of the politicians to change their election >manifestoes. �Yours etc., DHRUBA JYOTI DEKA, Bangalore. >
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