[Assam] forming a federation

Chan Mahanta cmahanta at charter.net
Wed Dec 3 06:49:58 PST 2008 

Well said Uttam








At 7:16 PM +0530 12/3/08, uttam borthakur wrote:
>  >>>>>>>>>Think of the NE, Assam couldn't even keep the Nagas, 
>Mizos, Khasis, Garos,
>Jaintias. Now Bodos, Karbis and Dimasas want a separate state from Assam.
>Nagas are fighting amongst themselves when not fighting others. Garos now
>want a separate Garoland from Meghalaya and Assam. The list of homeland
>demand is endless. Now are you suggesting to bring in more problems from
>across the border, as if we don't have much? Pakistan, even after
>independence cannot control it's own frontiers, what chance do we have?  Do
>you want a chance? I don't.
>
>***** Since we, in Assam, still have lots of problems, let us divvy 
>up Assam into only nuclear families and name each such household as 
>a country and each should apply for UN membership. Since we'll need 
>passports and other documents even to go to the streets, let us 
>federate thereafter to solve the resultant problems:-)
>
>By the way, does one know that saga of hotel bombing originated with 
>the Zionists in Israel in 1946? As the entire argument is based on 
>a monist view of historical perspective for not forming a federation 
>and in eulogy of the state of Israel, I thought a bit of history 
>would come handy here too.
>
>Uttam Kumar Borthakur
>
>
>
>
>________________________________
>From: Jyotirmoy Sharma <jyotirmoy.sharma at gmail.com>
>To: A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the 
>world <assam at assamnet.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, 3 December, 2008 5:49:26 PM
>Subject: Re: [Assam] forming a federation
>
>I do not agree with India, Pak and Bangla form a federation without national
>borders. We are bettter off without them.
>Remember we were one at one stage, did we have peace then?
>When we got independence, did not the Muslims want to have their own
>country? It wasn't that the British came and just cut us in parts. We were
>divided before, during and after British rule. When finally the subcontinent
>got divided on religious lines, people thought we will have lasting peace.
>But peace still eludes us.
>
>Think of the NE, Assam couldn't even keep the Nagas, Mizos, Khasis, Garos,
>Jaintias. Now Bodos, Karbis and Dimasas want a separate state from Assam.
>Nagas are fighting amongst themselves when not fighting others. Garos now
>want a separate Garoland from Meghalaya and Assam. The list of homeland
>demand is endless. Now are you suggesting to bring in more problems from
>across the border, as if we don't have much? Pakistan, even after
>independence cannot control it's own frontiers, what chance do we have?  Do
>you want a chance? I don't.
>
>The terror agents in Pak, Bangla would love to hear this. No matter how much
>they attack us, some of us still want to embrace them.
>I like what Israel does to protect it's citizens.
>JS
>
>
>
>On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:08 AM, Dilip and Dil Deka <dilipdeka at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>>  Dear Sushanta,
>>  I am glad to see that you have carried the concept further by saying that
>>  the federation should not be limited to the level of three countries, and
>>  should be taken one level down to the states, thereby possibly solving Assam
>>  and Kashmir issues. Could we have comments from other netters as well?
>>  A federation like this was mulled over in the 1940's under the British with
>>  the federation configured like Canada and Australia but INC (Congress) would
>>  not settle for anything less than complete independence. At the end, of
>>  course, independence was granted at the cost of partition. The results of
>>  partition haunt the sub-continent till today.
>>
>>  Dilipda (I am assuming you are in your thirties or forties)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  ________________________________
>>  From: "Pragyan,Tinsukia College" <pragyan_tsc50 at yahoo.co.in>
>>  To: dilipdeka at yahoo.com
>>  Cc: Assamnet Friends <assam at assamnet.org>; uttam borthakur <
>>  uttamborthakur at yahoo.co.in>
>>  Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 12:37:06 PM
>>  Subject: forming a federation
>>
>>
>>  Dear
>  > Friends,
>>  I do agree with Dilip Deka.He said,''The only way India, Pakistan and
>>  Bangladesh can coexist and prosper is by erasing the artificial lines drawn
>>  by the British and forming a federation, opening the borders for easy
>>  movement of people and goods. Bangladeshi labourers are migrating and
>>  supporting the Indian economy anyway. A federation will make it legal.
>>  Kashmir problem will go away when the LOC is erased between Indian Kashmir
>>  and Pakistani Kashmir.
>>  How about Assam? I leave that to your fertile imagination. What do you
>>  think? Will a federation (though improbable) work?" Ultimately we the people
>>  of Indian Subcontinent will have to move that way. With absolute internal
>>  autonomy we can form a Indian federation.internal autonomy for the states of
>>  Assam and Kashmir as well (Actually I'm talking about all the states that we
>>  have ) . We should be open enough to accommodate all type of aspirations of
>>  that type like Bodos, Karbis, Gorkhas of WB and so on.If we were to go to
>>  the village level that should also be done.Every higher body can look after
>>  the inter relations of its parts. It might sound like "Utopia" as Uttamda
>>  has said( though he said it a good proposal). But any dream starts its
>>  journey as being Utopia. Its a better and realisable Utopia, than 'Vanish
>>  Pakistan ' Utopia of a section of sectarian Indians.  An Utopia, that can
>>  only bifurcate India further. To attain that objective we, just , will
>>   have to broaden our heart beyond any limit.
>>  Sushanta Kar
>>
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