[Assam] For your reading sir

[Chan Mahanta]

Hi A:

I am not sure I get the question, but  are you 
meaning that if those who chant "Joi Ai Oxom" 
and want Assam to be the master of its own 
destiny, would be hypocritical because they ought 
to know that by gaining control over its destiny, 
Assam will also have to forego prosperity ?

If so, my question will be this:  How has Assam 
fared so far, living in dependency?  And how much 
can one prosper on handouts? A beggar's life will 
forever remain one on the dole. Why should 
thinking people of Assam opt for a life of 
dependence on mai-baap's  generosity ? And even 
if it creates a temporary illusion of prosperity 
for SOME, is it sustainable?

If you read Sanjib Baruah's  Post Frontier Blues, 
you will find a staggering revelation in the 
chapter Subsidy as a Permanent Condition: That 
India claims it  spends about Rs 300,000,000 
annually for a population of about 32,000,000 in 
the seven NE states and Sikkim. That is nearly 
Rs. 10,000 per each person, that is supposedly 
going for development.  Indian policy-maker  and 
central minister Jairam Ramesh says "--it is 
going to ensure cohesion with the rest of the 
country through a series of interlocutors that 
includes politicians, expatriate contractors, 
extortionists, anybody but people working to 
deliver benefits to the people for whom these 
expenditures are intended". "A surer way of 
improving the  economic conditions of the 
intended beneficiaries", he suggests 
tongue-in-cheek,"might be for the Indian 
government to open bank accounts and deposit an 
annual check of Rs 10,000 for every poor FAMILY 
in the NE."

I would agree, seriously!

And that is from the mouth of Assam's 'legitimate 
master' as you might see it.  And that is Indian 
policy and governance and its proxies in Assam 
for you, leading Assam into prosperity.

I just wish you all would barely try to learn a 
thing or two for a change, instead of living in a 
world of make-beliefs A. Seriously!


c-da







At 10:02 AM -0500 8/15/07, Alpana B. Sarangapani wrote:
>Hi C'da:
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>>On an aside, is "Joi Ai Oxom" not chanted in 
>>Assam public events any more? This is just out 
>>of curiosity. I realize that could be 
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>Won't s/he be a hypocrite if s/he chants 'Joi Ai 
>Oxom' and pulls that 'Ai Oxom' back 
>from attaining prosperity at the same time?
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>"In order to make spiritual progress you must be 
>patient like a tree and humble like a blade of 
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>Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:55:49 -0500
>To: navathakuria at yahoo.com; cmahanta at charter.net
>From: cmahanta at charter.net
>CC: assam at assamnet.org
>Subject: Re: [Assam] For your reading sir
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>Thank you Thakuria for the news report and the heartwarming pictures.
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>I must acknowledge that I was impressed by the 
>bravery displayed by Guahati journalists in 
>hoisting the Indian flag and parading on the 
>streets  "---   holding the banners reading 
>'Uphold the dignity of the National flag.' They 
>also chanted slogans like Bharat Mata Ki Jai and 
>Vande Mataram. " in the face of threats by 
>insurgents prohibiting it. Goes to show Oxomiya 
>journalists are no push-overs as it relates to 
>demonstrating their Indian dependency and moral 
>superiority. Chicken-hearted Oxomiyas  have a 
>real role model to look up to now.
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>On an aside, is "Joi Ai Oxom" not chanted in 
>Assam public events any more? This is just out 
>of curiosity. I realize that could be considered 
>inappropriate by authorities on an Indian 
>independence day celebration.
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>I will be looking forward to seeing such acts of 
>bravery from your ranks repeated in days to come 
>in analyzing forthrightly, pin-pointing and 
>helping find solutions to the many woes of 
>Assam; including the insurgencies, immigration, 
>governance in general, corruption, floods, 
>education, health-care, infrastructure  -- I can 
>go on and on.
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>I hope your resounding victory over oppression 
>yesterday will now fuel a renewed zeal and 
>infuse a sense of purpose to take on the   REAL 
>problems of Assam  until the next 15th of August 
>at the very least.
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>Best.
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>cm :-)
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>PS: Please convey my best regards to Dhiren-da 
>if you speak to him.  I am afraid I have been a 
>big disappointment to him on these matters; 
>since he was a favorite teacher and mentor and 
>is a well-wisher and long time family friend to 
>me and my family.
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>At 5:51 AM -0700 8/15/07, Nava Thakuria wrote:
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>Dear Mahanta,
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>It is for your reading,
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>Nava Thakuria,
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>Guwahati, India
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>Journalists celebrates ID defying militants' diktat
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>By Nava Thakuria
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>Journalists of Asom (Assam) have once again come 
>out to defy the militant's diktat and assembled 
>in press club to hoist the National flag. The 
>attendants also include hundreds other senior 
>citizens, social activists and youths took out a 
>procession in the streets of Guwahati chanting 
>the slogans related to India's Independence Day.
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>Mentionable that for a section of the armed 
>outfits of the Northeast it has become   a 
>ritual to impose a ban on the celebration of the 
>Independence Day (and the Republic Day). As 
>India was preparing to observe 61st Independence 
>Day (ID), four banned armed groups namely   the 
>Kamatapur Liberation Organisation (KLO), Manipur 
>People's Liberation Front (MPLF), Tripura 
>Peoples Democratic Front (TPDF) and the United 
>Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) had called 
>upon the people of the region to 'boycott and 
>prevent the celebration in any manner' as a 
>'mark of solidarity against Indian colonial 
>occupation and repression'. In a joint 
>statement, issued on August 10, the outfits also 
>imposed a general strike   throughout the region 
>starting the midnight of August 14.
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>"Yet another year has recorded the unrelenting 
>national liberation struggles in the Region 
>gaining the upper hand on the one hand and the 
>failure of one-sided 'peace talks' as a means 
>for conflict resolution on the other. This has 
>convincingly established the fact that the 
>national liberation struggles should be 
>consolidated, strengthened and intensified while 
>the fragmentation of the Region on exclusive 
>ethnic lines should consciously give way to a 
>new process of inclusive unity based on 
>interdependent coexistence as determined by the 
>Region's reality," the statement said.
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>It also added, "So far, India's all out effort 
>has failed, and is doomed to fail, to suppress 
>our national struggles because they have no 
>justification whatsoever. Ours is a just war to 
>liberate the entire peoples of the Region from 
>India's colonial occupation while India's war 
>against us is an unjust war to prolong their 
>colonial rule. History has always been on the 
>side of just wars in defeating unjust wars. Ours 
>will be no exception. Time and unrelenting 
>struggles will bear testimony to our victory."
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>The statement ended with the appeal to the 
>people 'to once again display their solidarity 
>against India, the common enemy, by making the 
>Boycott and General Strike a complete success'. 
>It also mentioned about the first wave of flood 
>that washed away many parts of Northeast saying, 
>"In view of the devastating floods in Assam and 
>Kamotapur (part of North Bengal and West Assam), 
>we make a special appeal to the entire people of 
>the Region to stand by the flood affected 
>fraternal people."
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>Not only they dictated to boycott the 
>Independence Day, but also stepped up violence 
>in Asom. The explosions and shootings in 
>different places had already snatched away the 
>lives of nearly 40 people of the State on the 
>eve of the auspicious Day. Other hundred were 
>wounded in the incidents. Most of the victims 
>were identified as the migrant labourers from 
>Northern India.  The police blamed ULFA and its 
>ally  Karbi Longri NC Hills Liberation Front 
>(KLNLF) for the handiworks.
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>Meanwhile, a dawn to dusk Asom Bandh was also 
>observed in protest against the killing of 
>common people in the State. Called by Purvottar 
>Hindustani Sanmilan, Bhojpuri Yuva Chatra 
>Parishad, Bihari Yuva Manch and Chamber of 
>Commerce, the 12 hours Bandh passed off 
>peacefully on August 14. The ULFA militants 
>received international media headlines, while 
>killing nearly hundred people in the first month 
>of the year on the eve of the   Republic Day 
>(January 26). 
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>But the violence and the diktat of militants 
>could not deter the people of   Northeast in 
>general and the journalists in particular to 
>come forward to celebrate the Day. The 
>journalist and citizens of Asom gathered in 
>Guwahati Press Club premises to mark the 61st 
>anniversary of Indian Independence Day. Noted 
>litterateur Nirupama Borgohain unfurled the 
>Tri-colour amidst an impressive gathering. 
>Hoisting the flag, Ms Borgohain underlined the 
>significance of Independence Day celebrations in 
>today's context and she called upon the young 
>generations to emulate the ideals upheld by the 
>freedom fighters. Earlier the veteran journalist 
>Dhirendra Nath Chakrabarty  led the rituals to 
>pay tributes to the martyrs of the freedom 
>movement, who faced all sorts of torture of the 
>colonial rulers to make the country free.
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>The participants also carried out a procession 
>through the main streets of Guwahati holding the 
>banners reading 'Uphold the dignity of the 
>National flag.' They also chanted slogans like 
>Bharat Mata Ki Jai and Vande Mataram. Meanwhile, 
>residents of various parts of Asom including 
>Guwahati also demonstrated their great zeal in 
>upholding the cause espoused by the freedom 
>fighters of the country on the occasion of the 
>61st     Indian Independence Day. They had 
>organized community celebrations at their 
>respective localities with great enthusiasm and 
>hoisted the national Tri-colour atop their 
>houses.
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>Mentionable that 16 senior journalists and 
>columnists had earlier appealed to the people of 
>the State to come out to defy the militants' 
>diktat and 'hoist the National Tricolour on the 
>Day atop their houses and also to organize 
>community celebrations in their respective 
>localities'. In a press statement they argued 
>that 'the people of the State have every right 
>to celebrate the Day, as we have inherited the 
>spirit of the freedom fighters who had made 
>immense sacrifices and a good number of whom, 
>like Kushal Konwar and Kanaklata, had even laid 
>down their lives to free the country from the 
>clutches of colonial rulers'.
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>Signed by Nirupama Borgohain (Sahitya Academy 
>awardee columnist), Dhirendra Nath Bezboruah 
>(former President, Editors Guild of India), 
>Dhirendra Nath Chakrabarty (former editor of 
>Dainik Asom) with Bhupen Bargohain, Ajit 
>Patowary, Rupam Baruah, Ranen Kumar Goswami, 
>Hiten Mahanta, Sushanta Talukdar, Girindra Kumar 
>Karjee, Mukul Kalita, Dhanjit Kakoti, N. 
>Thakuria, Sabita Lahkar, Ratna Bharali Talukdar, 
>Pramod Kalita, the statement also asserted that 
>the Independence Day this time had added 
>significance as it coincides with the birth 
>centenary celebrations of martyr Bhagat Singh.
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