[Assam] : Lesson for Nepal's King---Greater Assamwill solve all problems

[Dilip/Dil Deka]

Mukulda,
  So are you saying hell with civil liberties and personal freedom?  Are you trying to say Pol Pot was right when he herded the city folks into farms and nearly destroyed his country? 
  There is serious flaw in this thought process. It shows how you view the average citizen whose intellect you hold in low esteem. 
  Not owning land is not a solution to the problems Assam faces. You must be living in some Utopia.
  Dilip

mc mahant <mikemahant at hotmail.com> wrote:
      Kakaideo,
  Let us never be landgrabbers, usurpers,colonists and greedy--that's humanity-I believe deeply in.
  "Encroachment" should fall into the same group of detestables.
  Times are changing. People are becoming entrapped in concrete cages of the filthy city and in worthless creations like the TV/DVD/Mobile/Porn/Tourism/'Modernity' after leaving their land. Somebody feeds them with unhealthy  poor food and make them ready candidates forthe Drug Cos and Healthcare business.This is the time to trap them into the City and regruoup the fragmented Patta Land/ 'Debottar 'land ,ZaminDari lands onto productive/ science based Collective farms/State Farms. We are late by 90 years after Lenin.In USA farms are 2000-5000 Acres after capitalist consolidation. That kind of money-consolidation strategy is going to rob the Assamese of another 100 years-that,s why Shortcuts will be essential. Small minds get scared.
  "Gentle Persuation" will make all Tribes see the sense of uniting for efficient productivity/co-ordinated producing/markteting benefits for International or Regional Special- products- trading in the WTO regime.They can keep their FEEL-GOOD entities like Bhutan,Bodoland, Misingland, Khasiland, Karbiland,  Nagaland Society/Law/Custom/Dress-codes ------.and even their Naga Toka, Bodo Toka---.
  CIS-- Commonwealth of Independant Staes-those13 USSR fragments had to survive out of Mother Russia's bounty look up history since 1991.Some flew away. Some coming back.
  EU-you know the British 'Special Relations with Uncle Sam' better. They are still bungling.
  When I wrote" Greater Assam alone can enable SAARC to perform "you can see India relieved of their cancer called North-East and the resultant enmities with SAARC nations plus Myanmar and China. 

  >>Netters say what you conjure up.<< Do they? I doubt. >>Do not rush with one-up-man-ship<<. I do not see me in that direction.
  I should be ashamed even to think that you are in that Category.
  Love and Regards
  Mike

    
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  From: BBaruah at aol.com
To: mikemahant at hotmail.com
CC: Assam at assamnet.org
Subject: Re: [Assam] TIME: A lesson for Nepal's King
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 07:15:08 EST

    Dear Mike
   
  I am always for euphonics if it can be helped. Here we're dealing with international boundaries; something sacrosanct. You're suggesting an illegal overture, although by the best means possible, persuasion. I've nothing against good, old  Nicoló Machiavelli as politics is not a matter of morality. 'Grabbing' to me is the right word in the context I was using. The politically correct word could be 'encroachment'; but it does not seem to have the strength to bear the meaning I want to convey. Again I was referring to our neighbours within national boundaries.
   
  Now gentle persuasion and the willing association are your tools of political manoevre. I do not think a persuaded adult is a willing associate. In political context persuasion could be 'appeasement'. We all know what appeasement did to Assam's politics in the context of the hill tribes and others.
   
  Now I am sorry, I cannot locate CIS. What do these letters stand for? By EU, you possibly mean the European Union. It is yet to be seen how far the EU will go. Its differences have widened. The Euro was rejected; the draft Constitution was thrown away and there are so many other things which make my cup of tea in the morning. Take history, what happened to the Hanseatic League, the Organisation for African Unity and so on? But then I want to look forward, not be intimidated by past failures. 
   
  Now you're speaking of Greater Assam. I would have understood if you had said something about this split and splitting region but I am much less of a visionary than you're to dream of such a paradise.
   
  You surmise "SAARC has not worked yet-because everybody hates India." I have not read much about SAARC but I think you're absolutely right. However, I do not exactly follow when you say,"
  >>India tried the NEC concept-fatally flawed as it is controlled from Delhi.<<
   
  Delhi has to control a regional institution; it is part of India's Constitutional Law. But Assam or the North-eastern States are part of Delhi too. This point is often forgotten by the protagonists of Assam.
   
  I personally believe that  a sovereign Assam will do better even with all her shortcomings. But I've serious misgivings about your Greater Assam Republic. I do not elaborate this point here but I am prepared to dwell on it another time.
   
  >>Netters say what you conjure up.<< Do they? I doubt. >>Do not rush with one-up-man-ship<<. I do not see me in that direction.
   
  Regards
   
  Bhuban 


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