[Assam] About IMAGINATIONS

[Ram Sarangapani]

Please excuse me for chiming in, as usual, just couldn't resist.

>Assam's despondency is rooted in an appalling lack of imaginative ideas and
>creative drives, forever under the shackles of even more unimaginative
Indian >rule.

All these things *ONLY *look horrible if one resigns oneself to the notion
that *Assam is being ruled by Delhi (Indians*).

It is actually such notions that urge whole sections of people to become
despondent.

 >It could have been different, had Indian governance been able to show
>otherwise. But sixty years is long enough to see the handwriting on the
wall--how >ill equipped Indian intelligentsia is to resolve the problems of
a billion people.

So, WHAT is your solution (if you have any):)? Why hasn't a nearly 30 year
old insurgency produced absolutely nothing in *real terms for Assam?*
I would venture that Assam's progress and prosperity would have fared much
better had the insurgency never taken place.
**

>To depend on them, on their charity, for Assam's prosperity and well being,
is >nothing less than living in a fool's paradise, one of wishful thinking
and >daydreaming.

That, fortunately, is a minority opinion in Assam. And talking of day
dreams, it is the camp that is forever pushing this wishful dream of a
'Xonor' independent Assam, that is dreaming, big time.

And talking about fool's paradise, let us for a moment "imagine" how an
independent Assam would look like?
Heck, why not? Let us all dream together:

Would Assamese even be spoken? Would it matter?
Would Dhaka replace Dilli? Would there be a need for a border between Assam
and Bangladesh (at least we have one now)?

Would this new independent state be overrun with gunslingers,
bounty-hunters,tin-pot dictators, and armchair political scientists? :)

Will "India" suddenly have to contend with Assamese refugees fleeing the
onslaught of hordes of Bangladeshis.
Will this new state, replace Bangladesh as the 'poorest country' in the
world?
and on and on..
Wow! doesn't all this just give us goosebumps - just thinking about it?
Well, that was just a bad dream. The reality is that Assam is slowly, but
surely, getting back onto to the road of rapid progress & prosperity, inpite
of setbacks imposed by some.

--Ram




On 8/25/07, Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
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>  Imagination has many meanings, depending on the context. And it does not
> mean DAY DREAMING.
> All great things ever done by man have always been sparked by the
> imagination of a single human being.
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>  Assam's despondency is rooted in an appalling lack of imaginative ideas
> and creative drives, forever
> under the shackles of even more unimaginative Indian rule.
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> The moment you accept this condition as given and an unchangeable  fact of
> life, you are doomed. Your thought processes cannot  get out of the self
> imposed prisons.
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> Result:  An utter sense of helplessness, being reduced to an intellectual
> damp rag.
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> >BY IMAGINATION AGAIN did you mean dreaming about "taking control
> of assam's resources" your >euphemism for the sovereignity and what not?
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> Taking control of Assam's resources is ONLY one of the many parts that
> Assam will have to gain control over to make a difference for itself.
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> It could have been different, had Indian governance been able to show
> otherwise. But sixty years is long enough to see the handwriting on the
> wall--how ill equipped Indian intelligentsia is to resolve the problems of a
> billion people. To depend on them, on their charity, for Assam's prosperity
> and well being, is nothing less than living in a fool's paradise, one of
> wishful thinking and daydreaming.
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> At 4:16 AM -0700 8/25/07, chittaranjan pathak wrote:
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> >You mean hooked to day dreaming? May be in a couple of years time.
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> *** That is hardly a smart-alec answer as it was meant to be. In reality
> it is an abject  surrender to the status-quo. Cry about things to no end,
> but unable and unwilling to exercise one's  imagination to find a better
> way.
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> BY IMAGINATION AGAIN did you mean dreaming about "taking control
> of assam's resources" your euphemism for the sovereignity and what not?
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> Any way, be that as it may, it still leaves the question of intent on the
> wailing about the lungi-menace wide open. I was hoping to get a response to
> my question :
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>         Knowing this reality, those who ceaselessly keep pointing at the
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>         lungi-menace  specter, but doing or seeking nothing to help MANAGE
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>         the problem by taking steps that are realistic , achievable and
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>         humane, do it because of WHAT  Chitta?
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> MAHANTA DA by realistic, humane etc did you mean work permit and all those
> things? Like most of the Assamese -yes I will keep poiting to the influx
> problem knowing fully well we are helpless (both within and outside India)
> to do anything about it. Can we get a glimpse of realistic steps to manage
> the problem from you?
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> We are willing to believe for the time being that the Bangladeshis will be
> identifying themselves as genuine BDesh citizen and will clamor for the much
> coveted work permit (green card) to work 5 months in Assam and then go back
> willingly to BDesh
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> regards
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> chitta
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