[Assam] Who is the Sentinel of Freedom?

[Chan Mahanta]

*** What my interest is to see visible, perceptible and credible 
attempts at positive change; in the absence of which its 
intelligentsia's or its promoters' smug pronouncements  carry no 
credibility.











At 7:56 AM -0700 7/26/07, Dilip/Dil Deka wrote:
>I can see you are trying to steer the discussion to the same issues 
>that you are so fond of and have discussed here so many times - that 
>India has totally failed and Assam will be better off by opting out 
>of India.
>On your email below - All of your allegations are valid, not always 
>but in many instances. India is still experimenting with democracy 
>and there are successes and there are failures. You see only the 
>failures and never look for the successes. I look for the successes 
>with the failures. The failures do not justify the cry for Assam's 
>separation from India.
>Democracy in India, though not perfect, has augmented equality for 
>people and provided power to the masses as evidenced in the recent 
>election in UP and previous elections in W. Bengal and other places. 
>Despite many flaws, India will survive and flourish.
>Dilip
>
>
>Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
>
>  >The drive needs to be against the officials in the border 
>districts who according to you issue fake >papers.
>
>
>*** It is not about what Xourov thinks. But about the realities of 
>Assam and Indian governance. Do you have any opinion on that? Do you 
>for example believe that fake papers are or can be issued? Do you 
>believe widespread talk that the BSF personnel routinely let people 
>in from B'desh for a small fee?
>
>Now then, unless you do not believe that corrupt practices of 
>government personnel have been instrumental to proliferation of 
>illegal  B'deshi migration, you also need to reconcile it with your 
>faith in the governments of deshi-demokrasy led by those who were 
>elected by the savvy voters. And if these savvy voters who routinely 
>throw out the non-performing ones and elect a new slate ( or more 
>precisely
>play Round Robin-- or revolving door- by letting the same 
>non-performers back into power again and again), never make an ISSUE 
>of the problem, is it therefore:
>
>	A: Figment of bigoted imaginations concocted by the 
>caste-Oxomiyas and further inflamed
>	by the BJP, VHP and others like them?
>
>	B: Another exemplary  problem of Indian governance: One in 
>which it is more important to
>	hold on to political power -- thru vote banking -- than to 
>resolve societal issues, namely
>	corruption, mismanagement and unresponsiveness ?
>
>	C: That voting/election has nothing to do with issues? That 
>it is a yet another desi-ritual
>	to sanctify what is an obvious national scandal?
>
>	D: Some or all of the above or something else?
>
>
>*** If you agree that there ought to be investigations, and the 
>guilty brought to book, what has held successive governments, 
>elected by savvy voters,  back from undertaking any such thing?
>
>*** And if you think it should be undertaken, but the savvy voters 
>have failed to get any action; what would your recommendation be for 
>those whose angst filled wails resound thru the sentinels of freedom
>and watchdogs of democracy's pages  in Assam?
>
>Can't wait to see which way the wagging finger points :-).
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>At 6:28 AM -0700 7/26/07, Dilip/Dil Deka wrote:
>
>>The answer is in your own email - border districts and a full blown 
>>investigation. The drive needs to be against the officials in the 
>>border districts who according to you issue fake papers.
>>
>As for a long term solution to the problem of illegal Bangladeshi 
>mass migration, there is none. Some reprieve could be gained if the 
>political parties stop taking advantage of it and the locals stop 
>providing means of livelihood to the immigrants.
>
>Tell me why Assam did not see mass migration till the 1930's and 
>that may explain many things.
>
>Dilipda
>
>xourov pathok <xourov at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>--- Dilip/Dil Deka wrote:
>
>>  " He asked what you will do about these people who
>  > will produce the papers and will be let go by the
>>  police." --
>>  If you are talking about those who have valid
>>  papers (I assume that's what you mean by "who will
>>  produce papers") to prove they have the right to
>>  remain in India, the police has to release them and
>>  let them resettle wherever they want to.
>
>the principles are clear enough. but what would you
>do if the "valid" papers were obtained via bribes in
>border districts? you know how pervasive bribes are.
>would you press for a full blown investigation? which
>would be very costly involving many man-hours? or
>would you just let matters be, and let the police
>release those under detention?
>
>x
>
>
>
>____________________________________________________________________________________
>Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your 
>story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games.
>http://sims.yahoo.com/
>
>_______________________________________________
>assam mailing list
>assam at assamnet.org
>http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>assam mailing list
>assam at assamnet.org
>http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>assam mailing list
>assam at assamnet.org
>http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.assamnet.org/pipermail/assam-assamnet.org/attachments/20070726/998a309a/attachment.htm>