[Assam] For your reading sir

Thu Aug 16 07:35:35 PDT 2007

Hi A:

Did you send your above-average deliberative abilities on vacation ?

Why don't you read the words of Jairam Ramesh 
again, and see if you can understand what he was 
saying, and why I said it was like throwing in 
the towel.

And if you still can't , let me know. I know from 
a long association with Tilok Daktor, that 
sometimes people get befuddled by very simple 
images, can't see what is in the picture while 
getting transfixed to some obscure patterns in 
the field. The problem gets exacerbated when they 
also have a reluctance, overt or latent, to see 
the picture for political or emotional  reasons 
-- a shrinkological defense mechanism he tells me.

And once you get it, with or without my help, we 
shall re-visit Joi Ai Oxom. But if you don't get 
it, or more precisely don't WANT to get it, then 
it will be sheer waste of time for both of us.

c-da :-)

At 10:30 PM -0500 8/15/07, Alpana B. Sarangapani wrote:
>Thanks C'da. His snooty remarks shouldn't keep 
>us from improving our own state. It ain't his 
>money and it ain't my money to eat up either - 
>it's the state's money and need to be utilized 
>for the state.
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>Going back to the original topic - then it would 
>be practical to say: Joi Ai Oxom, won't it.
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>Being an indigenous citizen does not give one 
>the right (or the heart) to be destructive 
>towards one's own state/land. 
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>"In order to make spiritual progress you must be 
>patient like a tree and humble like a blade of 
>grass"
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>Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:01:05 -0500
>To: absarangapani at hotmail.com; cmahanta at charter.net; navathakuria at yahoo.com
>From: cmahanta at charter.net
>Subject: RE: [Assam] For your reading sir
>CC: assam at assamnet.org
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>  > Is it that he is acting like giving his own money?
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>*** Yeah Alpana. He is hurting 'cos his poitrik 
>xompotty is going to waste :-). It is MY 
>paranoid misinterpretation.
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>At 9:48 PM -0500 8/15/07, Alpana B. Sarangapani wrote:
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>  > 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.
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>Could you simplify it a bit, C'da? Is it that he 
>is acting like giving his own money? My brain 
>just can't comprehend intellectual talks. what 
>is it?
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>>  But I understand you why you can't care less. Those are merely my
>>  spinning :-).
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>No, not spinning this time. could be a paranoid 
>misinterpretation :), but I don't see a spin 
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>"In order to make spiritual progress you must be 
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>>  Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:00:37 -0500
>>  To: absarangapani at hotmail.com; cmahanta at charter.net; navathakuria at yahoo.com
>>  From: cmahanta at charter.net
>>  Subject: RE: [Assam] For your reading sir
>>  CC: assam at assamnet.org
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>>  Alpana:
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>>  >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
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>>  *** I understand :-).
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>>  >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.
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>>  *** 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.
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>>  But I understand you why you can't care less. Those are merely my
>>  spinning :-).
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>>  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 ?
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>>  >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?
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>>  >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?
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>>  > >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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