[Assam] From Tehelka

[Chan Mahanta]

Ram:

Why don't you guys put your money where your mouths are and tell ULFA 
that you might support their cause of Assam's independence, provided:

A:

B:

C;

D:

You fill in the gaps.

If you do that and ULFA still ignores the likes of you, then I would 
go along with your assessment. Failing which, it is "xaap hoiw 
khwtisa aaru bez hoiw jaarisa", know what I mean :-)?

c-da




At 6:49 PM -0500 8/16/06, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
>Exactly Rajib.
>
>That is why Pradip Gogoi's idealogical infatuation with the likes of 
>Marx and Castro cannot be just set aside.
>
>All we have heard so far is that a group of insurgents want freedom 
>at any cost. They won't give the people (that they are supposedly 
>fighting for) a plan, what kind of governance,  or even how they 
>would envision to protect the state once it is free.
>
>--Ram
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>On 8/16/06, Rajib Das <<mailto:rajibdas at yahoo.com>rajibdas at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>
>Yes, I agree completely. Labels of any kind don't
>amount to much. The Indian political class has only
>now started to shed labels. Within those, the ones to
>do so thoroughly were the Indian nationalists however.
>
>If the Indian nationalists are green with envy of
>China, it is great. At least envy might lead to
>something sustainably productive - as opposed to
>labeling China's progress as a CIA ploy or some such
>thing.
>
>The questions beneath the labels however are
>important.
>
>It is important to know what would be ULFA's agenda in
>an independent Assam (and that includes how they will
>govern, what "freedoms" would be allowed or
>disallowed, how will the government be run etc.).
>Wouldn't we all expect to get those answers to form a
>complete opinion? And wouldn't we be right, in the
>absence of any such answers, in determining that this
>would spell anarchy, no less?
>
>And no, the Oracle's (Mike Da) monologue, "Main Hoon
>Na" is not enough :-)
>
>
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>--- Chan Mahanta <<mailto:cmahanta at charter.net>cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
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>>  If so, those labels are that much meaningless,
>>  aren't they?
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>>  At 3:14 PM -0700 8/16/06, Rajib Das wrote:
>>  >I thought that wasn't really Marxism (or for that
>>  >matter Maoism) that did it in China - it simply was
>>  >sheer capitalism.
>>  >
>>  >Before they started off on this Capitalist route 20
>>  >years before India, they were reeling off from yet
>>  >another one of the Maoist (or is it Marxist)
>>  >endeavors.
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>>  >
>>  >>  Also, even though Marxism might not be your cup
>>  of
>>  >>  tea or mine, can
>>  >>  you go tell that to Chinese? A nation way worse
>>  off
>>  >>  than India 50
>>  >>  years back, now has no one going hungry or
>>  homeless
>>  >>  or without health
>>  >>  care, leaving Indian nationalists green with
>>  envy,
>>  >>  isn't it?
>>  >>
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