[Assam] Obama's magic is forever? 21st century massmovement

[umesh sharma]

Mukul-da,

To start with - I didn't write that article - I cannot vote in the US anyway.  It is a good thought - what can one do while sitting far away. I know two NASA engineers - one is from Assam who work at the NASA site where Swadesh - the Hindi movie - was shot -- of a NASA engineer going back to India to start a mass movement. 

Neither of the two have gone back - but do some titbit for the cause while remaining here. 

Mahatma Gandhi was successful in part becos there was a common enemy clearly visible - oppressive British rule, just like in Martin Luther King's Civil Rights Movement there was a clear enemy - dominant white rule. India does not have a common enemy -within- right now thus it would be difficult to unite the people for a common cause. Thus, new ways - less based on emotion alone - have to be devised. Project based developmental approaches seem to be the in-thing these days - from the World Bank to www.ashanet.org to  http://www.joshuaproject.net/

The project based approach seems more workable -- but ofcourse leadership is always an issue. Which leader will lead by example - and energize the followers/subordinates. 

Gandhi + Modern Management = 21st Century Mass Movement 
ofcourse, nowadays online petitions can be called some example of mass movement (on info highway atleast).

Bailouts are only for the rich !

Umesh Sharma

Washington D.C. 

1-202-215-4328 [Cell]

Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005

http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info)

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)




www.gse.harvard.edu/iep  (where the above 2 are used )
http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/



http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/


--- On Fri, 19/12/08, mc mahant <mikemahant at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: mc mahant <mikemahant at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [POSSIBLE SPAM] RE: [Assam] Obama's magic is forever?
> To: umesh.sh05 at post.harvard.edu, assam at assamnet.org
> Date: Friday, 19 December, 2008, 11:30 PM
> Umesh
>  
> You can ask www.mefa.org   to throw a bailout
> line.Everybody is doing bailouts now.
>  Ask Kashkari to. He should be glad to. One less!
>  
> Bihar-- line up Laloo's blessings first.
> Birth there may not be sole criterion.
>  
> Assam-- you are already invited.
>  
> mm
> > Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:03:10 -0800> From:
> jaipurschool at yahoo.com> To: assam at assamnet.org>
> Subject: [Assam] Obama's magic is forever?> >
> Mukul-da,> > Thats a thought - a good one. But the
> question would arise why I took a $35,000 student loan (
> from www.mefa.org a US organization ) to come to the US just
> 4 years ago. One answer was to learn about the
> "American system" - I am still a
> student/researcher. All in good time. But if you could
> arrange for $35,000 (about Rs18 lakh) to pay off my student
> loan> I would surely be tempted to come sooner.> >
> Umesh> > PS: Further, the question arises why not come
> to Assam or Bihar (my birthplace), Bhopal (my workplace) .
> Or for that why do you want to rely on someone else (me) -
> why not you start right away!!!> > > <I don�t
> know. Maybe its just me. Maybe Im just feeling ornery or
> PMS�ing but something really annoys me about so many
> people in our communities never bothering to give a damn
> about their condition until Obama became president. Don�t
> get me wrong, I cream for Obama with the rest of them but
> I�ve also voted in every election since I was 18,
> volunteered in my community, worked in legal services and
> generally tried to make my community a better place without
> a magical negro telling me to.> > But I never look a
> gift horse in the mouth, I cant be mad at anything that
> inspires folk to do better. Even if it is a magical negro.
> I�ll just sit back and enjoy the next four or maybe eight
> years. And when he�s out of office, God help us. Again.
> -------------Umesh -is all above yours?> You should now
> return to Rajasthan and create another Mass Movement
> "UMESH -your last HOPE"> mm> > Umesh
> Sharma> > Washington D.C. > > 1-202-215-4328
> [Cell]> > Ed.M. - International Education Policy>
> Harvard Graduate School of Education,> Harvard
> University,> Class of 2005> >
> http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info)>
> > http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)> > >
> > > www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are
> used )> http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/> > >
> > http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/> > > > >
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