[Assam] "Oxom"-"Asom" controversy is a "tilika" (little) topic

Wed Aug 30 05:42:32 PDT 2006

At the risk of inciting adverse reactions, I must 
say this was an astute bit of observation and 
excellent advice.

Regardless of whether anyone sat, 'we' do sit 
here and wish only 'ananda' for HT :-).

c

At 11:35 PM -0500 8/29/06, Barua25 wrote:
>Himenda:
>Please excuse me but you write too long and even 
>than most of the time you fail to make your 
>point. I think it is because you write with too 
>much emotion rather than with reason and logic. 
>Here is my sincere word of advice. If you would 
>just pause and think, before you write, what 
>point you want to make with your message, you 
>may be able to convey your message forcefully 
>and with much less words.
>
>In this particular case, if your point was to 
>try to influence the netters to ostracize Rajen 
>Barua (for whatever reasons other than your 
> apparent jealousy perhaps: How dare he supports 
>MM my enemy? Otherwise I have no clue "moi 
>apwnar ki pani khowa pukhurit bih dhalilw"), or 
>to convince the netters how bad these Mahanta 
>Brothers are and how immatured and coward this 
>Ramgopal is, you should come to the point like a 
>falling stone instead of like a feather flying 
>all over and making too much noise and not 
>making any sensible sound. After doing that you 
>should be prepared to get more frustrated 
>because we have here a bunch of wise and 
>intelligent netters who see through things. 
>
>I respect you for your literary talents and your 
>knowledge on Hinduism and whatever you are 
>worth. But being educated and experienced in 
>Hindu philosophy, you should know when to quit 
>and take things philosophically. By failing to 
>do so you are simply trying to expose yourself 
>to the world your true adhyantik self. You may 
>end up and live your life with much frustration 
>and a bitter feeling to this 'sat-sit-ananda' 
>world. You must learn love and magnanimity to 
>discuss things among friends in a matured way.
>
>Thanks
>
>RB
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:hthakur at comcast.net>Himendra Thakur
>To: <mailto:assamrs at gmail.com>Ram Sarangapani
>Cc: <mailto:assam at assamnet.org>assam at assamnet.org
>Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 8:16 PM
>Subject: [Assam] "Oxom"-"Asom" controversy is a "tilika" (little) topic
>
>Dear Ram,
>
>
>
>The word litikai was popularized so heavily in 
>the Assamese literature by Lakshminath Bezbarua 
>in his Gosain-Litikai serials  that every time 
>you mention the word litikai, you remember the 
>word gosain ----- just like the Guru-Chela 
>stories in North Indian literature, or the 
>knight & his squire stories of Europe, which 
>inspired classics such as Don Quixote and 
>Sancho Panza . In fact, there is a statue of 
>Sancho Panza in Madrid!
>
>
>
>Mr. Rajen Barua insults all Assamese people by 
>writing: Poor, pathetic 'litikai' Assamese with 
>their 'tilika' minds.
>
>
>
>The Assamese, therefore, has a right to 
>scrutinize how the mind of Mr. Rajen Barua was 
>working as he rushed to declare Mr. Mukul 
>Chandra Mahanta as Learned MM who wrote a very 
>irresponsible piece of advice about storing 
>rainwater underground in Guwahati without any 
>reference to the sewage pollution from the soak 
>pits.
>
>
>
>To clarify the example, here are the two telltale postings:
>
>
>
>Mr. Mukul Chandra Mahanta wrote on August 21, 2006: 
>
>A little arithmetic is called for. Say you have 
>a roof area= 100 sq mtr. and annual normal 
>rainfall =2m.You catch every drop and store. So 
>to store 200 cu.mtr water in a 2.5 mtr deep 
>underground tank  below your house,  you need Rs 
>5 Lakhs etra over just the house cost. You have 
>a 10 member family -need 2 cu mtr water daily. 
>So your annual Harvest of Stale rainwater goes 
>for 100 days! And for 265 days you buy-because 
>you did not dig your ring-well for Rs 10,000/-. 
>At Gau today,Bhar water <mailto:costs at Rs>costs 
>@Rs 20/-. Bhar= 30 litres. Hence you buy 
>water--costing dailyRs 1200/-
>
>
>
>Mr. Rajen Barua replied immediately:
>
>Interesting. If this is delivered drinking 
>water to your flat, it is rather cheap, I would 
>say. Less than a rupee per litre.
>
>  Here is a business tip to the local youth in Guwahati.
>
>If you have a plot of land in Guwahati, all you 
>need to do is dig a deep well and produce free 
>drinking water.  You may need little or no 
>filtration at all.  Sell the produced water to 
>the buildings in the city by a water tanker by 
>pumping the water to the roof top tanks.  (You 
>will be called whenever the city water supply 
>will fail or there is extra demand of water in 
>parties). You have unlimited supply of free 
>water. You may not even need a license. You do 
>the math how much profit you will make.
>
>
>
>I would like to hear comments from learned MM if I am doing it wrong.
>
>
>
>
>
>The Assamese people has a right to note that the 
>Gosain-Litikai relationship between Mr. Mukul 
>Chandra Mahanta and Mr. Rajen Barua is so strong 
>that Mr. Rajen Barua forgot  all about the 
>possibility of sewage pollution from the 
>underground soak pits and went forward to entice 
>the local youth in Guwahati  with the prospect 
>of how much profit you will make by selling 
>drinking water stored in underground deep well 
>with no filtration at all and without any 
>license from the Public Health Officials.
>
>
>
>This is verily an advice to young entrepreneurs 
>to avoid responsibility and accountability.
>
>
>
>The last line I would like to hear comments 
>from learned MM if I am doing it wrong sounds 
>like a dialogue of Sancho Panza in the classic 
>Don Quixote.
>
>
>
>The example cited above shows how irresponsible these advisers can be.
>
>
>
>Right now, his Learned MM is preaching 
>Secession of Assam from India [sometimes 
>camouflaging the word "secession" behind the 
>word "independence"] and no wonder Mr. Rajen 
>Barua rushes to blame the Assamese people
>
>Even now hardly any Assamese are raising their 
>voice for independence.  They are suffering so 
>much in inferiority complex, they even shy away 
>to pronounce Oxom and are trying to say Asom so 
>that their big brothers would not laugh.
>
>
>
>Compared to the horrific  foreign infiltration 
>which is a civilian invasion into  Assam, the 
>Oxom-Asom controversy is a tilika (little) 
>topic.
>
>
>
>By using this as a litmus test for the 
>inferiority complex of Assamese people, Mr. 
>Rajen Barua has exposed his own tilika mind. 
>Mr. Mukul Chandra Mahanta and his brother Mr. 
>Chandan Mahanta support the horrific foreign 
>infiltration by citing the economic benefits. 
>When Mr. Rajen Barua supports the Mahanta 
>brothers, he makes a great display of the 
>inferiority complex of those Assamese who will 
>sell their Mother for economic benefit.
>
>
>
>I do not agree with your phrase pipe dream --- 
>Secession of Assam from India is much more 
>serious than a pipe-dream --- it is murder of 
>millions of innocent victims. Just like 
>Partition of India was murder of millions 60 
>years ago.
>
>
>
>Symbolically encouraged by the fact that nobody 
>expressed any sorrow or any condolence for the 
>innocent victim who died under the irresponsible 
>Mahanta Building, the Mahanta Brothers are now 
>bolstering  their utterly irresponsible crusade 
>of Secession of Assam from India.
>
>
>
>By saying that these are Just my thoughts, you 
>have exposed, like many other netters,  your 
>hidden fear of speaking up against the Mahanta 
>Brothers in clear terms, because you are 
>probably afraid that Mr. Chandan Mahanta will 
>attack you with strong unparliamentary words 
>like (1) 'seraa-paagol'  (2) 'bhondo toposyi 
>(3) adha-khunda bidya (4) 'kando-gyan' (5) 
>'adha-khunda' (half-baked) nit-wit -------- in 
>fact, Mr. Chandan Mahanta threatens that he 
>could have used a whole lot worse.  
>
>
>
>No matter how much he threatens, I must 
>repeat that Secession of Assam from India is 
>much more serious than a pipe-dream --- it is 
>murder of millions of innocent victims.
>
>
>
>I urge the Assamese to stand up and voice in 
>confidence against the irresponsible leadership 
>of the Mahanta Brothers. Symbolically --- and as 
>a token --- they may start their protest to 
>Mahanta Brothers by expressing their sorrow and 
>condolence for the innocent victim who died 
>under the Mahanta Building.
>
>
>
>With the best wishes,
>
>Himendra
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:assamrs at gmail.com>Ram Sarangapani
>To: <mailto:barua25 at hotmail.com>Barua25
>Cc: <mailto:assam at assamnet.org>assam at assamnet.org
>Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 1:20 AM
>Subject: Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's bamboo-reinforcement
>
>Dear Barua,
>
>  >Even now hardly any Assamese are raising their voice for >independence.
>
>Very few actually raised the voice of 
>independence, and fewer still do so today. I 
>think, in case for independence, most Assamese 
>are actually being savvy and and realize what a 
>pipe dream this venture really is. They very 
>well know that their lot is in much better state 
>staying with India than being independent. That 
>is why, you will find very few voices for 
>independence.
>
>I doubt they are being  'litikai' at all.
>
>Just my thoughts.
>
>--Ram
>
>
>On 8/28/06, Barua25 <<mailto:barua25 at hotmail.com>barua25 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>I thought I never had to respond.
>
>Assamese are suffereing from an acute inferiority complex.
>That is why they want to stay with India and are 
>staying with India and will stay with India 
>forever.
>That is why they never raised their voice to 
>stay as an independent country at the time of 
>India's independence.
>Even now hardly any Assamese are raising their voice for independence.
>
>Today Assamese are not even complaining against 
>the GOI. They are simply saying that GOI is 
>treating Assam like a step child. All Assam 
>wants, is GOI to treat them as a 'legitimate 
>child.' They dream of the day when Mai Bap GOI 
>would treat them as their own child. That is all 
>they want. That is the highest dream of an 
>Assamese. As a result they wait for GOI's 
>command to say what Assam would do so that they 
>follow GOI like a 'litikai' and can please GOI.
>
>Assamese could solve lot of their problems if 
>simply they would stand up and voice in 
>confidence.
>They are suffering so much in inferiority 
>complex, they even shy away to pronounce Oxom 
>and are trying to say Asom so that their big 
>brothers would not laugh. There is hardly any 
>Assamese intellectual left in Assam. They even 
>donot know their own history and culture.
>
>Poor, pathetic 'litikai' Assamese with their 'tilika' minds.
>
>RB
>
>
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