Re: ansal plaza incident

2002-11-19 Thread Chan Mahanta
Ram: The point is that killing a couple of guys, or even a few dozen, or hundreds are not going to reduce terrorism -- if they are NOT the terrorists. Maybe, these two guys WERE terrorists. But the story given by the police to prove that they were, don't add up. Not by a long shot. That

Re: India Since 1947

2002-11-19 Thread D Deka
Please read below. Krishnendu Chakraborty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: IF Indians and the Assamese establishment and their expat supporters are SO SURE that the ULFAs aims don't resonate withn the people, why is India so paranoid about letting the people of

Re: Road to the future: sandeep phukan

2002-11-19 Thread Ram Dhar
Deep, Is it really happening under the leadership of Hastinapur communal leaders ! A bad dream or what !!! What say CM saar ? -Ram From: "deepjyoti kakati" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Road to the future: sandeep phukan Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 22:58:35 +0530

Reverse Brain Drain

2002-11-19 Thread Utpal Brahma
The Reverse Brain Drain Foreign-born techies head home as they lose their jobs--and work visas. FORTUNE Monday, November 11, 2002 By Eryn Brown and David Kirkpatrick Tech executives have plenty to worry about. Stocks in the dumps. PC sales at a crawl. Layoffs from San Jose to Austin. And

Re: Road to the future: sandeep phukan

2002-11-19 Thread Saurav Pathak
Ram Dhar said on AssamNet: + Deep, + + Is it really happening under the leadership of Hastinapur + communal leaders ! + + A bad dream or what !!! What say CM saar ? + + -Ram well, the latest is that the hastinapur leaders are not communal, but pseudo-secularists. Advani's

Desi-Democracy's Demons

2002-11-19 Thread Chan Mahanta
VHP harasses Kuldip Nayar on Ansal shootout TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2002 11:30:24 PM ] NEW DELHI: A group of Vishwa Hindu Parishad activists tried to intimidate senior journalist and Rajya Sabha member Kuldip Nayar on Tuesday, accusing him of being anti-national and

Re: Of dude uncles and Grown-ups

2002-11-19 Thread Chan Mahanta
--what about-respect or decency as any civil person, if not a typical Indian (oops! Assamese) with values? *** What about it Alpana? I have no qualification to advise people on such issues. I spoke my little part in my first response to SoBo. I used up all I had. And I attempt to do as I

Re: Fw: India Since 1947- The spin

2002-11-19 Thread Chan Mahanta
At 12:39 AM -0600 11/19/02, Alpana Sarangapani wrote: C'da: Hats off to you. You are a great spin-meister. On the one hand, you tell others not to make any assumptions on this guy, but you go off on a tangent making all kinds of assumptions about how great he is and how everything was said

Re: Of dude uncles and Grown-ups

2002-11-19 Thread Alpana B. Sarangapani
*** What about it Alpana? I have no qualification to advise people on such issues. I Hi C'da: I am not asking you to advise anybody. But since you're asking, you can do onelittle favor:simply stop analyzingthings in a defensive manner, like you did here: - to a teacher. In fairness to SoBo ,

Re: Of dude uncles and Grown-ups

2002-11-19 Thread Chan Mahanta
Hi C'da: I am not asking you to advise anybody. But since you're asking, you can do one little favor: simply stop analyzing things in a defensive manner, like you did here: Whoa there Alpana! What did I ANALYZE? And what defensive? Where do you come up with these charges from? Gosh, you must

Re: India Since 1947

2002-11-19 Thread Krishnendu Chakraborty
--- Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I have seen is that when Netters question ULFA regarding their postings on this Net, there is nothing but Silence. Don't know who is opposed to discussing it freely ! *** I was taliking about the PEOPLE of Assam. It is the people of Assam

Re: India Since 1947

2002-11-19 Thread Chan Mahanta
Shall we have a vote on this net to reflect views of Assamese population from accross the Globe ? From the discussions I have seen here , not many will subscribe to the idea of separation. ** Go right ahead. But regardless of the verdict, this number of extremely privileged people do NOT

Re: India Since 1947

2002-11-19 Thread Krishnendu Chakraborty
--- Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shall we have a vote on this net to reflect views of Assamese population from accross the Globe ? From the discussions I have seen here , not many will subscribe to the idea of separation. ** Go right ahead. But regardless of the verdict,

re: Road to the future

2002-11-19 Thread deepjyoti kakati
though BJP rulers have been at helm for most of NHDP, it was conceived earlier. held up by instability , funding and squabbles. by all accounts India did a gravely poor job on roads for 50 yrs. while the NHDP will somewhat make up the gap, the interior of big cities need lots of urban planning

re: Road to the future

2002-11-19 Thread Chan Mahanta
They enforce residency permits. migrants are not allowed into showpiece areas along the coast. no slums allowed to spring up. contrast with Mumbai. *** So where do they go? Where is the place for them to be homeless? At 6:35 AM +0530 11/20/02, deepjyoti kakati wrote: though BJP

re: Road to the future

2002-11-19 Thread D Deka
Itis going to hurt many of you, as I say this. Just like China has shut out migrants from the exclusive areas, we do the same here in USA. Manyof ushave big enough acreage to provide shelter to may be 50 homeless people in winter. How many migrants have you sheltered on your property lately? Let

Re: Fw: India Since 1947- The spin

2002-11-19 Thread KJDeka
In a message dated 11/19/02 4:21:18 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "--The assumptions I talked about dealt with the many assumptions about who SoBo is, For the last forty eight hours, I have been beating my brain out over "SoBo" with regard not to the person himself ( to

Re: India Since 1947

2002-11-19 Thread Chan Mahanta
And the extremely privileged people include you and so you too do NOT represent the people of Assam *** No I don't. But I certainly can make a case for what could WORK. Or is that prohibited because MY condition does not reflect the average Assamese's? even though you try to establish

From Assam Live

2002-11-19 Thread Chan Mahanta
New Delhi's neglect bred northeast insurgency: Zoramthanga By Our Staff Reporter Guwahati, Nov 15 (IANS) Long years of neglect by New Delhi is to blame for the insurgencies across the northeastern region, former guerrilla leader and Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga says. For

Re: From Assam Live

2002-11-19 Thread Chan Mahanta
At 7:13 PM -0800 11/19/02, D Deka wrote: Mr. Zoramthanga got what he wanted. He wanted to be the leaders in Mizoram. What has he done for Mizoram since, more than what Mizoram would have got in the forst place? When Mr. Arobindo Razkhwwaa gets the chief ministership he will be happy too. Will it

re: Road to the future

2002-11-19 Thread D Deka
Just because there are homeless people in India, it does not mean India shouldn't build highways. How did the topic change from a grand project to homelessness?Also please read below. Chan Mahanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *** How many homeless people do YOU see in your hometown? As compared tosay

Re: From Assam Live

2002-11-19 Thread D Deka
The world didn't begin with insurgency. So we do not have to start history when insurgency began in Mizoram. Insurgency was created by the likes of Zoramthanga for their own gains. So go back a few more years and ask if the insurgency was needed to start with. In this whole episode there is

Re: Road to the future

2002-11-19 Thread Alpana Sarangapani
"How did the topic change from a grand project to homelessness?" It is just that some people have this 'soku-soroha aaru khaaipaat-folaswobhab', so anytime India goes forward, they forget everything and try to pull herback.:) :) - Original Message - From: D Deka To:

Re: Road to the future

2002-11-19 Thread KJDeka
In a message dated 11/19/02 9:45:34 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: *** How many homeless people do YOU see in your hometown? As compared to say Kolkata or Guahati? DD: How many times does it have to be repeated that it is inaccurate and illogical to compare India with USA.

Re: Fw: India Since 1947

2002-11-19 Thread a.saha
[ From: Alpana Sarangapani [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Date: Nov 19, 2002 00:47 (-0600) ] that exactly is my point. But you do show respect - you don't have to show by rituals or words, you do inherently show respect to them. It is the underlying sincerity that has to be