Dilip-da:
I am astonished that someone with your intellectual ability and professional
experience in large organizations should say this. It is a fundamental fact of social
institutions that extremely well meaning people can, as a collectivity, function in
the most disastrous manner. A system is much more than the sum of best intentions of
the people it is composed of. Even a marriage of two great persons or a family of
affectionate parents and children attain states of intolerable suffocation and mutual
hurt - not because of the lack of best intentions - but because of the way in which
their interaction has taken place over time - the role of chance events, the role of
external factors - small, little things that don't amount to anything in themselves,
but that together acquire a monstrosity over time - so that nothing but abandoning
ship and starting on a fresh slate appears to be the way to go.
Santanu.
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Sent: Fri 10/1/2004 12:23 PM
To: Chan Mahanta; Anjan K. Nath; ASSAMNETCOLORADO
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Assam] Car Rally from Guwahati Is Not for Fun Alone
I am surprised at this talk that is delirious and single track minded.
If as a person ABV meant well, Dr. Singh means well, and so many other leaders
in Delhi mean well, then who is left who does not mean well? You will say it is the
system, but the system is made up of people like these.
If you don't respect others, others don't respect you- it is as simple as
that. Do you think ABV had some ethnic hatred towards the Assamese people when he used
the term "disloyal", if he used that term at all? There were twenty odd other states
about whom he could use the term but he didn't have to. When will you start looking at
the world without the bias and hatred towards other Indians? Whether Assam is
independent, autonomous, or stays as a state in India, Assam will have to learn to
live with India.
Dilip
Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anjan:
I know about Saikia, even though I don't know him or what he
is all about.
At any event that is beside the point.
It is not WHAT an individual politician thinks of Assam or views the
NE's angst as. I won't have any trouble believing that ABV means well. But that means
NOTHING. It has nothing to do with individual Indians' view of Assam or Nagaland or
Mizoram, or the Bodos or the Karbis.
What DOES matter however, is what, as a nation that is known as
India,has COLLECTIVELY done to our peoples, and will CONTINUE to do.
It is about positive change. It is about believing in democracy in all
its many
uncomfortable 'avatars', it is in believing in the need for making the
institutions of democracy WORK, it is about devolution of powers to the people, it is
about learning to accept dissent, it is about RESPECTING everyone, regardless of their
economic status, it is about RESPECTING people and their cultures, even if they are
NOT something you grew up with, it is about LETTING PEOPLEs BE as agreed to in a
FEDERAL democratic state as promised, at time of independence, It is ALL about all of
the above and more, that the Indian state has failed to live up to.
So I find the anecdotes of individuals' goodwill towards the people of
Assam or the other contiguous states, as PROOF of Indian goodness and the NE's
"disloyalty" ( as ABV told Bhuban Barooah kokaideu in London) patently ridiculous.
c
c
----- Original Message -----
From: Chan Mahanta <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Dilip/Dil Deka <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ;
ASSAMNETCOLORADO <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 6:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Car Rally from Guwahati Is Not
for Fun Alone
>It looks like Guwahati and Assam were on Vajpayee's
mind even when he was >travelling abroad and NDA govt. was serious about opening the
land route to the >east through Assam.
Tonight I am going to rejoice at Assam's being in the
forefront of Vajpayee's mind, EVEN while traveling abroad. And lecture all those who
complain of being in the receiving end of 'step-motherly' treatment by the Center and
their 'khai-paat-folaa' attitudes.
Come on Dilip :-) :-) :-) :-)!
At 3:31 PM -0700 9/30/04, Dilip/Dil Deka wrote:
From TOI.
It looks like Guwahati and Assam were on
Vajpayee's mind even when he was travelling abroad and NDA govt. was serious about
opening the land route to the east through Assam.
Dilip
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ASEAN for Guwahati to Indonesia car rally
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GUWAHATI/ NEW DELHI: The Ministry of External
Affairs (MEA), the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the ASEAN Secretariat
(Indonesia) are jointly organising a car rally from November 22 to December 11 to
promote trade between the ten ASEAN nations.
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The car rally is being held to demonstrate
that there exists a land route between the member countries to enable free flow of
trade. This would be first car rally of its kind.
Titled "Chalo ASEAN", the car rally would be
flagged from Guwahati and pass through Myanmar, Thailand, Laos PDR, Vietnam, Cambodia,
Malaysia, and Singapore, before concluding in Indonesia.
The beginning of the rally from Guwahati would
be actually a culmination of mini car rallies from across the north-eastern states to
be flagged off by the chief ministers of the 'seven sisters'.
The ral! ly would also fulfil former prime
minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's wish for such an event to take place to foster
regional unity.
On October 8 last year, Vajpayee, while
attending ASEAN Summit in Bali had said, "To draw dramatic attention to our
geographical proximity we could consider the idea of an India-ASEAN Car Rally. A
possible routing could be from Guwahati in North-east India, through Myanmar, Thailand
and Cambodia to Hanoi in Vietnam."
"Such a rally would draw in commercial
interest in infrastructure along the route. It can promote tourism and development.
There could be a long term impact on the economic co-operation in the region,"
Vajpayee had said.
Giving details of the rally in New Delhi,
Resident Commissioner at the Assam Bhawan, Rajiv Yadav, said, "One of the purposes of
the car rally is to let the public know that there exists a land route between the
ASEAN nations. Till now it was a hidden fact from the general p! ublic's knowledge."
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