[Assam] 10 day notice

[Chan Mahanta]

Hi BK;

Yours is a very fine note. Can't argue with it.

I will only add one comment to your reflections:

** Nobody can offend ME against MY wish! I would like to think it is 
an universal truth.


:-)

Best,

c










At 11:18 AM -0500 3/9/06, BBaruah at aol.com wrote:
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>I cannot improve upon what Ram has written about this little 
>disagreement. Still I feel like contributing my bit as well.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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?
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>Bhuban
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