[Assam] For your reading sir

[Chan Mahanta]

Alpana:

>Oh! C'da. Your effort to spin everything that you do not support, is 
>just so transparent! With all due >respect, don't you preach 
>something like - you can fool ev


*** I understand :-).



>I am not sure if Mr. Ramesh is looking down upon the state as a 
>whole or is he talking about the factors >responsible for this 
>low-production-stage.


*** You missed the whole point, entirely!  It is not about looking 
down upon or looking up to. It describes a serious  systemic 
dysfunction-- of mai-baap's doles, however well intentioned or fair 
or even overly generous , at the cost of others, failing to do what 
it is meant to.

But I understand you why  you can't care less. Those are merely my 
spinning :-).

c-da




At 1:40 PM -0500 8/15/07, Alpana B. Sarangapani wrote:
>  >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 ?
>
>Oh! C'da. Your effort to spin everything that you do not support, is 
>just so transparent! With all due respect, don't you preach 
>something like - you can fool everybody else but can't fool yourself?
>
>It is so obvious, but let me try again. What is the point of saying 
>'Joi Ai Oxom' and do everything against her prosperity and make sure 
>that she only faces 'porajoi' - like, making the state a killing 
>field, stealing money that needed to be used for Assam's 
>development, taking away freedom of expression from her citizenry, 
>in short, abusing her and her resources?
>
>
>  >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."
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