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

[mc mahant]

Umesh ,
Tell these 2 who dared not-to write me. Shall tell them how to dare.
mm
 
 
----------------> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:55:28 -0800> From: jaipurschool at yahoo.com> Subject: RE: [Assam] Obama's magic is forever? 21st century massmovement> To: umesh.sh05 at post.harvard.edu; assam at assamnet.org; mikemahant at hotmail.com> > 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/> > > > >> > > _______________________________________________>> > assam mailing list> assam at assamnet.org>> > http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org> > _________________________________________________________________> > Much more than email – don't miss out on the rest of> > the Windows Live™.> > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/> > > > 
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