[Assam] HAF: Hindus in Kashmir, Pakistan etc: Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/religion/chi-relig_hindu_13jul13,1,2105560.story?coll=chi-religion-topheadlines Umesh Sharma Washington D.C. 1-202-215-4328 [Cell] Ed.M. - International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Class of 2005 http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info) www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used ) http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/ - Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your freeaccount today.___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
Re: [Assam] People--Types
M'da: What about adding another type: The ones that are practical and want all 'kharkhowa's to have a normal and peaceful life? On 7/17/07, mc mahant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are 3 (no 4) types of people: Those who make things happen (engineers), those who watch things happen, those who wonder what happened, and those who take credit for it happening (politicians). read in CR4 discussion. Can we add 2 more types of OXOMIYA INTELLECTUALS who think ULFA – bringing Oxom Sovereignty- is going to ruin their lifestyle who do nothing-say nothing-waits for safe moment to rush to front of line mm _ Catch the cricket action with MSN! http://content.msn.co.in/Sports/Cricket/Default.aspx ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
[Assam] 'Edwina behind Nehru's UN referral on JK'
'Edwina behind Nehru's UN referral on JK' 18 Jul, 2007, 0526 hrs IST, TNN NEW DELHI: If Lord Mountbattens daughter is to be believed, extra-political considerations played a role in New Delhis decision to refer the Kashmir issue to the UN. Pamela Hicks, the last viceroys daughter, told a private TV channel that Lord Mountbatten used his wife Edwina, who shared a deep emotional love with Jawaharlal Nehru, to influence him to refer Kashmir to the UN. That is true and he did use her like that. But he certainly wasnt going to throw her, he didnt say to her go become the prime ministers lover because I need you to intercede. It was a by-product of this deep affection, Ms Hicks said in an interview. She was replying to a query on whether Lord Mountbatten used the Edwina-Nehru relationship to influence him in the handling of the Kashmir issue. Ms Hicks, who has recounted the relationship between Nehru and her mother in the book India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power, said it was possible that Edwinas influence played a role in Nehrus decision to refer Kashmir to the UN. I think it could have been my father, just in dry conversation might have been able to get his viewpoint over. But with my mother translating it for Panditji and making, you know... appealing to his heart more than his mind, that he should really behave like this, I think probably that did happen, she said. This was in reply to a question whether Nehru decided to refer Kashmir to the UN under Lord Mountbattens advice and whether this was an area where Edwinas influence could have been particularly useful. Yes, I think so, Ms Hicks said on whether her father had a bit of influence on Nehru through Edwina. Ms Hicks insisted that the relationship between Nehru and Edwina was platonic. Nehru was a very honourable man who liked my father. There was a great affection between the two, and it was nearly always in my fathers houses either in England or India that they were together, and I think he (Nehru) would never have dishonoured his friends, she said. I believe just that they loved being together they might like to hold hands or to hug or something like that. (But) I dont believe, I really dont believe because of the fact that my father was so often around and that there was not a hint of that, Ms Hicks said. She said the love between Nehru and Edwina made her mother an easier person to be with. My mother was so happy with Jawaharlal, my father knew that it helped her because a woman can, after a long marriage... a woman can feel perhaps frustrated, and perhaps neglected and so if a new affection comes into her life, a new admiration, she blossoms and shes happy, Ms Hicks noted. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Edwina_behind_Nehrus_UN_referral_on_JK/articleshow/2212559.cms - Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos more. ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
Re: [Assam] People--Types
Dear RA , Went out on a Summer Holiday?Enjoyed? We were MISSING YOU. Welcome back. are practical and want all 'kharkhowa's to have a normaland peaceful life? --in Eternal Slavery-? No they are not People -are they? Best m Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:58:54 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Assam] People--Types CC: assam@assamnet.org M'da: What about adding another type: The ones that are practical and want all 'kharkhowa's to have a normal and peaceful life? On 7/17/07, mc mahant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are 3 (no 4) types of people: Those who make things happen (engineers), those who watch things happen, those who wonder what happened, and those who take credit for it happening (politicians). read in CR4 discussion. Can we add 2 more types of OXOMIYA INTELLECTUALS who think ULFA – bringing Oxom Sovereignty- is going to ruin their lifestyle who do nothing-say nothing-waits for safe moment to rush to front of line mm _ Catch the cricket action with MSN! http://content.msn.co.in/Sports/Cricket/Default.aspx _ Palate Teasers: Straight from Master Chef! http://content.msn.co.in/Lifestyle/Moreonlifestyle/LifestylePT_101106_1530.htm___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
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[Assam] Assamnet moved to a dedicated server
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[Assam] Fwd: [WaterWatch] Linking riv ers, a dated notion
Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 9542609-m1144 X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Originating-IP: 69.147.64.108 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:6:0:0 X-Yahoo-Post-IP: 220.224.89.146 From: mediavigil [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Yahoo-Profile: mediavigil cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-eGroups-Edited-By: mediavigil [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-eGroups-Approved-By: mediavigil [EMAIL PROTECTED] via web; 18 Jul 2007 19:05:17 - Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing-List: list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Id: WaterWatch.yahoogroups.com List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:01:21 - Subject: [WaterWatch] Linking rivers, a dated notion Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: groups-email-ff Water scarcity is a real threat It's time to progress beyond jingoism and gravitate towards practicality GURUMURTI NATARAJAN The next war ripping across continents may well be triggered by water scarcity. Already a third of the world is suffering from water shortages. Ironically, rainfall has been adequate. The water is there. But what has gone awry is its management. Water scarcity in Asia and Australia alone affects a fourth of the world's population and is triggered by over-usage whereas in Africa, it is lack of adequate infrastructure that wreaks havoc. Water scarcity around the world has come about primarily due to quintessentially wasteful practices that have seeped into present- day agriculture which sadly mops up 80% of fresh water. Over the past 100 years, water usage has gone up by six times globally, and is threatening to double again by the year 2050, driven mainly by demands of irrigation and increased agricultural activities. Current methods of irrigation will have to be urgently revisited and more efficient means reinvented. Problems of water scarcity can best be addressed by better efficiency in its utilisation, recycling, pricing of water (and the electricity used for lifting and conveying the water) where not already in vogue, transportation without losses, leaks and pilferage, and through education of the perils of the dangers to all humanity that is presently straining at the tethers due to the current reckless abandon with which it has been mismanaged. Interestingly rich nations like Australia are not immune to water scarcity. An urban Australian on the average trashes 300 litres of water daily and the European notches 200 litres, while the sub- Saharan African makes do with less than 20 litres a day. On the other side, one never ceases to marvel at Israel, which has truly mastered the art and science of water and its sustainable utilisation, conservation and augmentation. For a country that receives a best average rainfall of about 700 mm annually (in the Zefat region in the northern mountainous terrain), its agricultural productivity puts to shame any other agricultural economy. Here, efficiency of farm production is calibrated against water used for irrigation and a deterrent placed on its wastage. With agriculture being the main culprit for abysmal water scarcity, one should look up to advances in genetic engineering that has notched a few successes in ameliorating this acute paucity of water by suitably altering the plant's architecture, reduced need for water through modifications of internal anatomy and adjustments of crop physiology, besides enabling plants to survive and succeed in saline, salty and harsh environments. Improving the efficiency of agricultural production and water use are fundamental to any blueprint for a sustainable and equitable growth. The Murray-Darling that runs through Australian agricultural heartland has been steadily receding, triggered in part by an unprecedented string of droughts and exasperated by incessant siphoning for irrigation purposes. The Mekong, running through Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam is another startling example of how a once life-sustaining force could threaten the very communities that it once helped found and nurture. Nearer at home the muffled rumblings that one hears from time to time in some high-fluted national seminar where the wind bags wax eloquently of the virtues of linking rivers to ward off a cataclysmic disaster in the making is all hog wash. The idea of `linking rivers' is a dated notion, tracing its origins to Sir Arthur Cotton in the 19th century. Akin to Captain Dastur's `Garland Canal', Dr K L Rao's proposal of a Ganga-Cauvery Link was another idea that was just as handsomely popular as it was ridiculously impractical! Rao's plan envisaged the link to take off near Patna, pass through the basins of the Sone, Narmada, Tapi, Godavari, Krishna and Pennar rivers before joining the Cauvery upstream of the Grand Anicut. Traversing 2,640 km, 60,000 cusecs of water were to be drawn from the flood flows of the Ganges for 150 days in the year. A
Re: [Assam] Assamnet moved to a dedicated server
Yes - it is a wonderful service to the community. Thank you and thanks to Chandan-da for providing the crucial support. Santanu. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Chan Mahanta Sent: Wed 7/18/2007 2:30 PM To: J Kalita; assam@assamnet.org Subject: Re: [Assam] Assamnet moved to a dedicated server J and B: Thanks, as always, for all you do to keep assamnet alive. c-da At 12:23 PM -0700 7/18/07, J Kalita wrote: Hello Members of Assamnet, The company that was hosting assamnet recently asked us to move a few days ago due to the large number of emails that had to be sent out by their server. They were in a shared environment and it was becoming too burdensome for them. As a result, we moved to a new dedicated server a couple of days ago. We were having some problems, but I think Babul and the company have been able to fix all the problems. Sorry for the mail interruptions over the past couple of days. Jugal Kalita Babul Gogoi ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
Re: [Assam] Assamnet moved to a dedicated server
Thanks to both of you -our hero worker bees! Without YOUR backroom effort we would remain dumb and distraught. mm Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:23:21 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: assam@assamnet.org Subject: [Assam] Assamnet moved to a dedicated server Hello Members of Assamnet, The company that was hosting assamnet recently asked us to move a few days ago due to the large number of emails that had to be sent out by their server. They were in a shared environment and it was becoming too burdensome for them. As a result, we moved to a new dedicated server a couple of days ago. We were having some problems, but I think Babul and the company have been able to fix all the problems. Sorry for the mail interruptions over the past couple of days. Jugal Kalita Babul Gogoi ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org _ Sign in and get updated with all the action! http://content.msn.co.in/Sports/FormulaOne/Default___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
[Assam] River Linking visions/abberations--India-3 feet from Gold
This one from Mediavigil. (Fine Madrassi Rhetorics-little System Management-mm):The author is a specialist in agri-businessesThe Financial Express15 July, 2007The idea of `linking rivers' is a dated notion, tracing its origins to Sir Arthur Cotton in the 19th century. Captain Dastur's`Garland Canal',DrK L Rao's proposal of Ganga-Cauvery Link were other ideas that were as handsomely popular as they were ridiculously impractical ( Or are they?-mm)Rao's plan envisaged link to take off near Patna, pass through the basins of the Sone, Narmada, Tapi, Godavari, Krishna, Pennar rivers before joining the Cauvery upstream of the Grand Anicut. Traversing 2,640 km, 60,000 cusecs of water were to be drawn from Monsoonflood flowsof the Gangesfor150 day/year. Bulkof that water was to be lifted over 450 metres. (Actually this 450m is not scary-if you consider most regained by Siphoning. Or by Tunneling to minimize Lift energy. That would have Put India into Global Engineering Map of the world. Why did the proponents like Kalam NOTdrive this point HOME?) The scheme was abandoned (It will need another In-Depth relook-mm)for its huge financial costs (He behaves like a small-time Bank Clerk- Print more Bank Notes if millions can be benefitted!)and large energy requirements, besides the colossal misery that would have wreaked on hapless hamlets and populations bythe million(How many-Resettle these!)along the trail of this grandiose link. Techno-economic viability apart, diversion of waters from the Ganges would have unfailingly embroiled India in an international dispute with neighbouring Bangladesh for such a flagrant violation. ( Again Here- This GuruMurthy thinks like a LaghuMurthy.Ganges waters were planned to be diverted in SW Monsoon times-when Bangla+WB are reeling under floods. They could have been made to feel happy-not sulky -mm) - _ Want to look great? Get expert opinion on beauty and skin care. http://content.msn.co.in/Lifestyle/AskExpert/Default01.htm___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
Re: [Assam] Assamnet moved to a dedicated server
Keep up the good work. Best wishes. Rajenda - Original Message - From: J Kalita [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: assam@assamnet.org Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 2:23 PM Subject: [Assam] Assamnet moved to a dedicated server Hello Members of Assamnet, The company that was hosting assamnet recently asked us to move a few days ago due to the large number of emails that had to be sent out by their server. They were in a shared environment and it was becoming too burdensome for them. As a result, we moved to a new dedicated server a couple of days ago. We were having some problems, but I think Babul and the company have been able to fix all the problems. Sorry for the mail interruptions over the past couple of days. Jugal Kalita Babul Gogoi ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
[Assam] AJ: death sentence to terrorists - Mumbai bombings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWfdb0gl1qg Umesh Sharma Washington D.C. 1-202-215-4328 [Cell] Ed.M. - International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Class of 2005 http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info) www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used ) http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/ - Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. Tryit now.___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
Re: [Assam] Assamnet moved to a dedicated server
That's really an effort worth praising. It's a big job. Thanks to JK BG. Mridul Bhuyan Roy, Santanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes - it is a wonderful service to the community. Thank you and thanks to Chandan-da for providing the crucial support. Santanu. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Chan Mahanta Sent: Wed 7/18/2007 2:30 PM To: J Kalita; assam@assamnet.org Subject: Re: [Assam] Assamnet moved to a dedicated server J and B: Thanks, as always, for all you do to keep assamnet alive. c-da At 12:23 PM -0700 7/18/07, J Kalita wrote: Hello Members of Assamnet, The company that was hosting assamnet recently asked us to move a few days ago due to the large number of emails that had to be sent out by their server. They were in a shared environment and it was becoming too burdensome for them. As a result, we moved to a new dedicated server a couple of days ago. We were having some problems, but I think Babul and the company have been able to fix all the problems. Sorry for the mail interruptions over the past couple of days. Jugal Kalita Babul Gogoi ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org ___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org Images by Graphics Factory.com - Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games.___ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
[Assam] Bangladeshi Hindus--Lajja--Hindu American Foundation Press Release: HAF Highlights Plight of Hindus in South Asia at Congressional Human Rights Caucus Briefing
Hindu American Foundation [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Hindu American Foundation [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: info [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hindu American Foundation Press Release: HAF Highlights Plight of Hindus in South Asia at Congressional Human Rights Caucus Briefing Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:56:56 -0700 www.hafsite.org HINDU AMERICAN FOUNDATION PRESSRELEASE HumanAmerican Foundation Highlights Plight of Hindus in South Asia at Congressional Human Rights Caucus Briefing FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For Media Inquiries contact: HAF ExecutiveDirector Ishani Chowdhury Office: 301.770.7835 Fax:301.770.7837 Email: ishani at hafsite.org Washington, D.C.(July 18, 2007) -- In a first of its kind, the Hindu AmericanFoundation (HAF) was invited by the House of Representatives CongressionalHuman Rights Caucus to testify at a briefing on human rights inSouth Asia yesterday. The briefing, held at the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill, was co-sponsored bythe Task Force for International Religious Freedom and the IndiaCaucus. The panel discussion was entitled, Religious FreedomConditions in South Asia: The Treatment of ReligiousMinorities. Our annual Hindu human rights report iswidely seen as a credible resource on a topic often overlookedby many human rights groups and the international press and we havebeen exploring ways in which we could bring more attention to this urgentsituation, said Ishani Chowdhury, the Foundation's ExecutiveDirector. We are pleased that our interactions with theCongressional Human Rights Caucus brought the issue of Hindu humanrights to the forefront at thisbriefing. Highlighting the plight ofHindus in Afghanistan and India's state of Jammu and Kashmirspecifically, Chowdhury urged assembled political leaders, humanrights groups, and the media to focus on what she described asthe non-proselytizing, peaceful populations of Hindus who are facingpersecution and discrimination in South Asia and in other partsof the world. She alluded to the more serious human rights abuses in Bangladesh and Pakistan briefly, as otherpanelists described conditions in detail in those two countries, andfocused on the HAF report's assessment of Hindu human rights inAfghanistan and India's state of Jammu and Kashmir. Sadly, with thelack of media attention, documentation by human rights organizations,think tanks or a voice from our leaders, the future of the Hindupopulations in many of these countries can be considered tenuous at best,Chowdhury said. Hindus, as adherents of a tolerant faith thataccepts a multiplicity of paths to realizing Truth, carry an importantmessage of pluralism and understanding that is a critical element of theglobal dialogue today. Among the panelists were TadStahnke - Deputy Director of Policy at the U.S. Commission onInternational Religious Freedom (USCIRF), Patricia Carley - AssociateDirector of Policy at USCIRF, Rosaline Costa of the Commissionfor Justice and Peace of the Catholic Bishops of Bangladesh, AngelaWu - International Director at The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, andImam Daud Hanif - missionary in charge at the Ahmadiyya Movement inIslam, USA. Stahnke, while acknowledging the positive aspects ofBangladesh society -- democracy, active media, and judiciary -- alertedthe audience to the extremist Islamist influence on politics and societysince the election of the BNP-led government in 2001, and the postponingof general elections which was scheduled to be held in January 2007. He mentioned the attacks on minorities, especially the largest minority --Hindus, and of the rape, murder, confiscation of land and property, andattack on temples that led USCIRF to declare Bangladesh as a country of particular concern. Discussing anti-blasphemy laws inPakistan and anti-conversion laws in India and Sri Lanka, Wu alsoexpressed deep concern at the push by the Organization of the IslamicConference to have the United Nations pass a resolution urging aglobal prohibition on the public defamation of religion. Wuurged the U.S. State Department to provide mandatory training to itsofficers in engaging and negotiating with religious leaders. Rosaline Costa, a native of Bangladesh, highlightedthe demographic trends in Bangladesh which has seen a 219 percent growthin the Muslim population and the
