[Assam] A fleeting moment of joy

Tue Jul 18 00:14:16 EDT 2006

  Dear netters,
   Few weeks back, I wrote an email with the subject: Visit to Assam. Amidst the gloom and despair in present Assam, there are few individuals who are working selflessly undeterred by the turmoil. I expressed my hope that their work will encourage many other youths to come forward.
   Garvin Brown of Australia, who is aware of these efforts at Assam, came to know about these e-mails and wrote the following to me. I thought of sharing this with you all.
  Sincerely ,
  Ankur ,
  Austin , texas

  Dear Ankur  
   Thank you for your email I appreciate your reply. You have a great heritage with your grandfather being a freedom fighter.
   I am 78 years of age and was born in New Zealand which is just across the Tasman Sea from Australia. I have lived in  Australia for 57 years. My father taught me to always tell the truth and he was a good influence on me. In my earlier years  I was always aware of Mahatmaji because he was on Newsreels at the movies and he inspired me.
   I have always wanted to do something positive but up until a few years ago I just TALKED like most people but now I am  determined to DO something. In November 2003 I held a Mahatma Gandhi Awareness meeting at which around 90 people turned up and I gave talks to a couple of groups but it was far from satisfying me and I knew I had to do more. In March 2005 I went to Ahmedabad and participated in the 75th anniversary of the Dandi Yatra. On the walk we lived in tents and visited many Villages.  We lived in 10 star comfort in our tents compared to the people in the Villages that we passed through. I made a vow to myself that I WOULD DO SOMETHING. As the Mahatma said I HAVE NOT THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT THAT ANY MAN OR WOMAN CAN ACHIEVE WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED IF THEY HAVE THE SAME HOPE AND THE SAME FAITH.
   As the Mahatma said we are all tarred with the same brush. In other words we are ALL   Hindus   Muslims  Christians and Jews.
   I want so much to bring The Mahatma’s message to ordinary people all over the world I know it is a big task but I am committed to  It. Around October of this year I am walking from where I live on the Gold Coast of Queensland to Sydney a distance of around 950 k,s I intend talking to schools and anyone who will listen. 
   Parijat Academy and the devoted selfless Teachers and Uttam my great friend need HELP and I will not forsake them.
   Again I thank you for your Email.
   Sincerely
  Garvin Brown
  Queensland Australia

  Dear Garvin Brown ,
  Please accept my gratitude for your eagerness to know more about Parijat Academy. We few people are trying to help this and other institutes which I feel that will bring ray of hope to our troubled state Assam. I am from a family of freedom fighter and my grandfather Mohi Chandra Bora was a devote Gandhian. I believe that only Gandhi's principle of non-violenece and compassion can bring peace and prosperity to Assam.
  I will like to know more about your association with Gandhi , Parijat Academy , Assam and India.
  Yours Sincerely,
  Ankur Bora
  Austin , Texas

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  From:  Parijat Academy <parijatacademy03 at yahoo.com>
To:  Garvin Brown <garvin at onthenet.com.au>
CC:  Ankur <ankurbora at hotmail.com>, sourabh bora <sourabhbora at gmail.com>
Subject:  I know him
Date:  Wed, 12 Jul 2006 04:50:10 -0700 (PDT)

  To

  Gravin Brown

  Australia

  Dear bother,

  Yes, I know Mr. Ankur Bora. He is staying in Texas, USA. He did Master Degree in Engineering ( Computer) from USA. Originally he is from  Assam. Recently he visited Assam and visited to Parijat Academy. He came to know about Parijat Academy from internet like you.  During his visit to Parijat Academy he spend few hours with the children and the teaching staff of Parijat Academy.  

  Mr. Sourabh Bora came to know about Parijat Academy from Ankur Bora. At present Sourabh  Bora is in Bangalore ( South India). He is planing to do Master Degree  in Electronic in USA. Perhaps he is living India to USA in this year for 
  Higher Studies. 

  You can talk to them. They will be happy to hear from you.

  Email  address:

  Ankur Bora,  email: ankurbora at hotmail.com

  Sourabh Bora, email: sourabhbora at gmail.com

  I hope in future we can get together   in   Parijat Academy.

  Much love from Parijat Academy

  Your brother

  Uttam Teron

  Parijat Academy

  Pamohi, P.O. Garchuk, Guwahati-781035, Assam, India

  Mobile: +91-9864041711

  Uttam my friend

  I found this on a search of Parijat Academy do you know him ?

  Sincerely

  Garvin

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  Re: [Assam] Trip to Assam     
  Ankur Bora
Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:11:27 -0700

  This is in reference to  the folllowing mail below, Sourabh Bora has visited Assam recently. He observed the growth of Guwahati and is wondering where the money is coming from. I would like to mention the following.
Mr. Nani Gopal Mahanta recently published a PhD theses. He observed that Between 1995 and 2000 more than 800 multi-storey buildings came up in Guwahati city alone worth around $12 billion. Where this money came from?. Mr. Mahanta's observation is that the Central government is still considering the 
  problems of Assam as law and order. Instead of infrastructure development , government has taken a myopic approach. each of the surrendered militants were awarded with cash rewards of Rs 2.5 lakh as grant and Rs 1.5 lakh as loan against state security and those sums were never repaid. Many of them also has started extortion and other illegal business and this is what we see in Guwahati , as observed by Sourabh Bora.

  There is a front page article on resurgent India in Times this week. In that article , cities like Mangalore were mentioned. These are small cities but they are going to be in fore front of Information Technology , as TIME observed. 

  Contrast this with our guwahati city , probably Wine Shop are the fastest growing industry there !!!.

  However , among all this gloom , there are few individuals ( and organization) who are working selflessly . The Parijat Academy in Guwahati and Pragylay in Jorhat are such  
  organizations. I happened to meet some of them in my brief trip to Assam last month and I still see ray of hope there.

  Ankur

  Dallas , Texas. 

Sourabh Bora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

  Hi all,
Recently I went on a one week trip to Assam. It was after a long gap and the
changes I saw are noteworthy.

The first thing that surprised me was the mushrooming of lifestyle joints
life Coffee day.. malls, Rebook showrooms (there are three) and pubs in
Guwahati. The chage is so sudden that I felt like Rip Van 
  Winkle. If you
enter a pub there is no way to make out whether you are in Guwahati or
Bangalore. and these places are always teeming with people. Mostly students.

Even aprtments are coming up. ..in a very unplanned way though..there are
buyers and the prices are rising day by day.
In the outskirts of Guwahati new resorts and entertainment parks have come
up.I didnt go to any of these. But I heard they are pretty good.

and then there is an expensive and luxurious ferry ride from Guwahati..
right up to Kaziranga..
These are surely good signs.. from the tourism angle its geat. Guwahati does
have a night life now to attract tourist from Indian Metros.

But one question kept baffling me.. where is the money coming from for such
things.? Even bangalore didnt have too many of them before the software
onslaught began. In a region stagnant for years now in terms of ecomonic
activity this seemed quite odd. and we dont even have a 
  sizeable diaspora to
pump money back home..

This has made me feel that the economics of North East is not understood
well.. We all know that our socio -economic structure is different from
rest of india, and I think some study needs to be initiated..
Can somebody throw some light?

Thanks and Regards
Sourabh Bora
Symbol Technologies
RMZ Ecospace-Block 3B-4th floor
Sarjapur Outer ring Road-Belandhur
Bangalore
560037
+919448021647
+9180-41092020

Ankur Bora <ankur_bora2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:     This is in reference to  the folllowing mail below, Sourabh Bora has visited Assam recently. He observed the growth of Guwahati and is wondering where the money is coming from. I would like to mention the following.
Mr. Nani Gopal Mahanta recently published a PhD theses. He observed that Between 1995 and 2000 more than 800 multi-storey buildings came up in Guwahati city alone worth around $12 billion. Where this money came from?. Mr. Mahanta's observation is that the Central government is still considering the problems of Assam as law and order. Instead of infrastructure development , government has taken a myopic approach. each of the surrendered militants were awarded with cash rewards of Rs 2.5 lakh as grant and Rs 1.5 lakh as loan against state security and those sums were never repaid. Many of them also has started extortion and other illegal business and this is what we see in Guwahati , as observed by Sourabh Bora.
  There is a front page article on resurgent India in Times this week. In that article , cities like Mangalore were mentioned. These are small cities but they are going to be in fore front of Information Technology , as TIME observed. 
  Contrast this with our guwahati city , probably Wine Shop are the fastest growing industry there !!!.
  However , among all this gloom , there are few individuals ( and organization) who are working selflessly . The Parijat Academy in Guwahati and Pragylay in Jorhat are such  organizations. I happened to meet some of them in my brief trip to Assam last month and I still see ray of hope there.

  Ankur
  Dallas , Texas. 

Sourabh Bora <sourabhbora at gmail.com> wrote:
          Hi all,
Recently I went on a one week trip to Assam. It was after a long gap and the
changes I saw are noteworthy.

The first thing that surprised me was the mushrooming of lifestyle joints
life Coffee day.. malls, Rebook showrooms (there are three) and pubs in
Guwahati. The chage is so sudden that I felt like Rip Van Winkle. If you
enter a pub there is no way to make out whether you are in Guwahati or
Bangalore. and these places are always teeming with people. Mostly students.

Even aprtments are coming up. ..in a very unplanned way though..there are
buyers and the prices are rising day by day.
In the outskirts of Guwahati new resorts and entertainment parks have come
up.I didnt go to any of these. But I heard they are pretty good.

and then there is an expensive and luxurious ferry ride from Guwahati..
right up to Kaziranga..
These are surely good signs.. from the tourism angle its geat. Guwahati does
have a night life now to attract tourist from Indian Metros.

But one question kept baffling me.. where is the money coming from for such
things.? Even bangalore didnt have too many of them before the software
onslaught began. In a region stagnant for years now in terms of ecomonic
activity this seemed quite odd. and we dont even have a sizeable diaspora to
pump money back home..

This has made me feel that the economics of North East is not understood
well.. We all know that our socio -economic structure is different from
rest of india, and I think some study needs to be initiated..
Can somebody throw some light?

Thanks and Regards
Sourabh Bora
Symbol Technologies
RMZ Ecospace-Block 3B-4th floor
Sarjapur Outer ring Road-Belandhur
Bangalore
560037
+919448021647
+9180-41092020

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