[Assam] Demand for Action etc.

[Chan Mahanta]

>  >What, in your assessment, is a real and permanent solution?
>Assuming you are hinting at sovereignty for Kashmir and Assam as a 
>real and permanent solution to the mindless violence, I disagree 
>because that will only bring another set of problems and other forms 
>of violence.


*** OK, allow me to rephrase the sentence:

  Therefore one would have to conclude it is an unwillingness to stand 
up and be counted in support of a real and SUSTAINABLE solution.

How is that?


*** I HINT at only ONE THING:  That is for the thoughtful  to raise 
their voices of in unison to seek a real and sustainable solution.

And how could that be achieved?  It is by engaging those who create 
the [politically engendered violence in sincere negotiations with an 
aim to find a settlement.


Take a look at this for example:

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/columnists.nsf/billmcclellan/story/839C814E6153261886257510001BC5AC?OpenDocument


To decide NOT to accept a particular solution scenario in advance and 
thus justifying the absence of a dialog, particularly by those who do 
not even live on the grounds of what have given rise to the violence, 
is unfortunately the same as the historical Indian inability  to seek 
and find solutions to its innumerable social, political and economic 
problems.
















At 7:19 AM -0800 12/1/08, Dilip and Dil Deka wrote:
>I agree with this one - "In that, these displays of internet 
>bleeding  are little  more than self-serving, useless and ultimately 
>insincere grandstanding that will result in nothing. All it affirms 
>is the unchanging Indian nature of
>believing in the make-believe as an acceptable substitute for the real thing."
>A petition produces results when the petition gets a hearing. How 
>many petitions are followed up by the pettioners?
>
>
>I do not agree with this one - "It is unlikely that this group of 
>people are intellectually unable to grasp what it would take to put 
>an end to these episodes of mindless violence. Therefore one would 
>have to conclude it is an unwillingness to stand up and be counted 
>in support of a real and permanent solution."
>Is there a real and permanent solution? Rather, are there? The world 
>is too complicated for permanent solutions.
>What, in your assessment, is a real and permanent solution?
>Assuming you are hinting at sovereignty for Kashmir and Assam as a 
>real and permanent solution to the mindless violence, I disagree 
>because that will only bring another set of problems and other forms 
>of violence.
>
>Dilip Deka
>
>
>
>
>________________________________
>From: Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net>
>To: assam at assamnet.org
>Sent: Monday, December 1, 2008 8:41:58 AM
>Subject: [Assam] Demand for Action etc.
>
>I have been paying attention to the heartfelt calls for action 
>against terrorism etc. as well as the expression of routine Oxomiya 
>angst about no one paying attention to their hurts.
>
>While it is commendable to see our fellow men's noble expressions of 
>solidarity with the victims of a given day, what jumps out  by its 
>absence is ANY desire to raise a SINGLE word about how to put an end 
>to these routine and increasingly violent eruptions of death and 
>destruction that have become more and more frequent over the years.
>
>It is unlikely that this group of people are intellectually unable 
>to grasp what it would take to put an end to these episodes of 
>mindless violence. Therefore one would have to conclude it is an 
>unwillingness to stand up and be counted in support of a real and 
>permanent solution.
>
>In that, these displays of internet bleeding  are little  more than 
>self-serving, useless and ultimately insincere grandstanding that 
>will result in nothing. All it affirms is the unchanging Indian 
>nature of
>believing in the make-believe as an acceptable substitute for the real thing.
>
>
>cm
>
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