[Assam] Blunder after Blunder--WHY?

[uttam borthakur]

It is entirely true that despite incessant debates, mud-slinging, analyses, discussions we are yet to formulate an acceptable model for the solution of the problems at hand. At first, it may be that a solution is not really desired by the 'state' and other vested interests. Second, education imparted here have not churned out real 'puzzle-solvers' or 'problem-solvers' in the field of technology except the file-pushers. Third, supposed models for solutions are tainted with vested interests of the developed areas at the cost of the hinterlands. If the interests of the Emperor and its servants were at stake that coincided with us vermins, proper attempts at solving the puzzle with proper mathematical models and strategies, engineering skills and political will would have been more than visible. I do not see any immediate economic necessity on their part to do so. Else, people here would have to stand on their own, our bright minds should try some
 original thinking to use whatever local resources and political manouevers that we can muster to counter the problems: as they say' raije nokh jukarile noi boi'.
  
Uttam Kumar Borthakur



----- Original Message ----
From: Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net>
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Cc: hiren.gohain at gmail.com; assam at assamnet.org
Sent: Sunday, 7 September, 2008 11:29:28 PM
Subject: [Assam] Blunder after Blunder--WHY?

Nomoskar Gohaindeu and welcome.

It is nice to see another voice from Assam and a highly regarded one at that.

Sure glad to see you attempted to answer the question I posed.  But I 
must say we are still at pointing to symptoms. The causes, I am 
afraid, remain more deeply embedded and will need much more digging.
And surely they won't be summarizable in a short and sweet paragraph.

Why I persist in pursuing the point is that over a decade of my 
observing Indian intelligentsia's many discussions and attempts at 
analyzing and pinpointing the causes of the national angst, I have 
not yet seen anyone going down to looking at the fundamentals. Why I 
don't know.  But I have seen people getting defensive or doggedly 
resisting admitting what stares one in the face from my experiences 
in assamnet.  I just hope this is a more mature forum and able 
membership will not hesitate to challenge itself into looking at the 
mirror without the proverbial tinted glasses or getting defensive. 
Our people deserve no less.

What is a better cause than to explore the impediments to finding 
effective solutions to what bedevils the lives of lakhs of your kin 
and mine like the coming of seasons ?



cm




>________________________________________________________________________
>8. Re: kosi: blunder after blunder
>    Posted by: "Dr Hiren Gohain" hiren.gohain at gmail.com
>    Date: Sat Sep 6, 2008 9:35 pm ((PDT))
>
>India has done in space research etc.what even certain advanced  Western
>countries have failed to do.That required not only  intellectual brilliance
>but also  good planning and organisation.The same people fail dismally in
>looking after its own people  and coming to the rescue of people  hit by
>disaster.Why?A question of priority of rulers.People's concerns in this
>socioety  are  accorded low priority.Governance has become a vast network of
>vested interests and corruption,not because officials are inefficient but
>because governance is  nerely the  cover for  other class-driven
>pursuits.Hiren Gohain.
>
>
>On 9/6/08, Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
>>
>>    > > Can you suggest operational steps?
>>  > >May be GoI and GoB should conduct a joint session with civil engineers,
>>  >dam experts and other relevant people.
>>
>>  ****Perhaps the operational steps should be suggested by the experts
>>  who promote them. No?
>>
>>  > >May be GoI and GoB should conduct a joint session with civil engineers,
>>  >dam experts and other relevant people.
>>
>>  ****Call me a cynic, but I am quite amused by the thought. Don't
>>  they do that already? Have they not been doing that for decades and
>>  with their combined intellectual prowess and technological ingenuity
>>  ( forgive my sarcasm) been causing what they have?
>>
>>  It does not take a whole lot of savvy to know why Indian governance
>>  does not work--never did and as it stands will never do. But the
>>  thought expressed clearly indicates that the awareness is missing
>>  here.
>>
>>  Not that nobody knows why it is so. Right here, in this forum, this
>>  governmental dysfunction has been detailed by people with first hand
>>  knowledge. But it takes a little effort to read, understand and take
>>  note.
>>
>>  Unfortunately when we are so immersed in our own righteousness and
>>  certitude, backed up by information collection skills we are so adapt
>>  at and so proud of, it is not hard to imagine how we are reduced to
>>  citing what the west does as the ultimate argument ; never mind the
>>  realities of India.
>>
>>  But it is not too late. One can begin to try to understand WHY
>>  Indians are unable to do what other have been doing routinely for
>>  centuries, in spite of its huge information reservoir ( I am
>>  purposely avoiding a term like 'knowledge' or 'skill' here--because
>>  information possession , the ability to cite chapter and verse of
>>  what others might have written or said or done is not wisdom, not
>>  even knowledge and does not necessarily translate to an ability to
>  > perform).
>>
>>  What is it about India that prevents it from solving the humblest of
>>  problems, never mind the big ones?
>>
>>  Can our best take that on? Perhaps if we can put our fingers on it ,
>>  we can begin to find ways to deal with it. Surely the Institutions
>>  of higher learning has not done that. Just look at all the brilliant
>>  graduates of IITs, IIMs,IIMSs' taking the world by a storm but are of
>>  no consequence at home.
>>
>>  Why?
>>
>  cm

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