[Assam] 10 day notice

[BBaruah at aol.com]

I cannot improve upon what Ram has written about this little  disagreement. 
Still I feel like contributing my bit as well. 
Not long ago a British ambassador in his memoirs stated that ex-Premier  of 
Great Britain Mrs Margaret Thatcher did not know how to argue without  
offending the other  person.  
Once my job was to pursue mistakes committed by journalists and pointed  out 
by listeners. The journalists hated me for this. But then it was my job! For  
years I did this thankless job. Then the person to whom I reported changed. 
His  replacement called me one day and said that I should stop reporting these  
mistakes. The organisation in which we worked broadcast millions of words  
produced twenty-four hours a day under pressure and mistakes were  inevitable. 
There is a saying sape khai; kape khai. I don’t think I need  translate this 
to our netters. It is easy to offend a person by one’s saying or  writing. It 
is possible to win a point by strategy rather than by facts and  logic. At 
times we may be inclined to attack another participant  with garbed language. 
Once I read an  article in the Readers’ Digest where a writer tried to prove that 
2 + 2 does not  make four. He almost succeeded. I may add here that once a 
head of a department  in Assam accused me of insubordination because of a 
reasoned reply I sent  him. 
The point I want to make here is that we must learn to argue without  giving 
offence to our fellow netters. We all make mistakes and have prejudices  
because everyone has been influenced by the circumstances in which we find  
ourselves: our physical and moral strength, skills, expertise in various fields,  
beliefs, aptitudes and so on. 
Language has such power that in yesterday’s The Times there was a letter  in 
which the writer claimed that junior doctors were being appointed on the  
basis of their ability to write good English rather than on the basis of their  
knowledge,  clinical experience and  efficiency.Language is power. Shri 
Shankardeva and Shri Madhavdeva who were  great poets constantly reminded themselves 
that they should not be carried away  by the momentum of their literary 
creation: they are above all  preachers;devotees to the Lord of All Things. They were 
also great pundits. They  utilised that power to preach eksarania dharma? 
Correct? 
Bhuban
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