[Assam] Fwd: RE: On Blogging Ban/ToI Blog Post

[Chan Mahanta]

My addendum to this:

As I wrote in my second response to the ToI blogger, and to Rants and 
Raves in Outlook India about one of its columns , obviously written 
by a 'bilayeti' Hinduttva zealot, the real meaning of the blather 
about 'Mumbai's indomitable spirit' is that "lives in India are 
cheap".

cm






>X-IronPort-AV: i="4.06,255,1149480000";
>    d="scan'208,217"; a="271174792:sNHT773664096"
>X-Originating-IP: [59.94.9.47]
>X-Originating-Email: [mikemahant at hotmail.com]
>From: "mc mahant" <mikemahant at hotmail.com>
>To: cmahanta at charter.net
>Subject: RE: [Assam] On Blogging Ban/ToI Blog Post
>Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:01:58 +0530
>
><The site has been gone the last two days.>
>
>cm
>
>Kafkaesque! Mind management! Attack on the fundamental thought process!
>
>The day after MumbaiTrain blasts which killed 200(Govt figure) all 
>TV channels were showing Tata,Godrej, Bajaj and other money bags" 
>sound bytes with the common refrain"Mumbaiiites are a tough lot-they 
>take everything on their stride-they are not deterred-they will keep 
>Indiaa's economy booming-see there was even an increase in the share 
>indexes BSE/NASDAq"
>Not a mention about the total tragedy inthe lives of 3 million 
>huddling in Mumbai to escape from the reality that is India.
>mm
>
>
>
>
>From: Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net>
>To: assam at assamnet.org
>Subject: [Assam] On Blogging Ban/ToI Blog Post
>Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 08:36:06 -0500
>
>blockquote, dl, ul, ol, li {padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;}
>Last week I visited a blog site on the Times of India web page. It 
>had numerous posts, actually going wild. But the content was largely 
>mind-numbingly stupid. There was one that I spotted that made sense. 
>My response below ( I wrote under the pseudonym of UR Conscience). 
>The poster agreed with my views, but explained his/her misgivings 
>about if anything could be done.I had a follow-thru, but did not 
>keep a copy. The site has been gone the last two days.
>
>cm
>
>
>
>
># re: What Can I Do For My Country?  7/16/2006 7:12 PM   (UR Conscience)
>
>  That was a positive call . It was a breath of fresh air amidst the 
>tidal-wave of mindless outpourings that have jammed the print media, 
>the airwaves and the internet this past week.
>
>But what did you get? What does the barrage of garbage that answered 
>your call tell you about the state of your society, your 
>intelligentsia, if anyone can call it that? Mind you, those who are 
>sent to govern are a product and a choice of the same milieu.
>
>You cannot do anything for your COUNTRY. The country is an 
>abstraction. It is made up of individuals. Many different 
>individuals with widely differing circumstances, needs and ideals. 
>But those who share the circumstances, the needs and the ideals, can 
>work together
>to better their own lots. If these individuals' and groups' 
>well-being is enhanced, then the country's well-being is enhanced 
>too.
>
>However these various individuals and groups are not the same, not 
>homogeneous. You will need to understand and respect that.
>
>Kashmiris have different aspirations from Tamils from Biharis from
>Assamese from Nagas. When the so-called patriots attempt to lash 
>them together to create a homogeneous nation with super-power 
>aspirations, they go against natural law. History has proven, over 
>and over again, that such attempts never succeeded, or if succeeded 
>temporarily, never lasted. Look at what happened to Soviet Russia, 
>with its draconian rules, highly organized and ruthless state 
>machinery and its military might. China is an exception. But it is 
>held together by brute force. Sooner or later it too shall 
>disintegrate, unless conditions are created by its population for 
>its many constituents to work together for a common good, under 
>their own volition, exercising their free-will.
>
>Indian intelligentsia, its press and its politicians lack the 
>intellectual wherewithal to clearly explain that to the population. 
>They can explain only if they themselves know the difference. Look 
>at the posters in this blog: They are the country's elite. They 
>obviously have an 'education', they are financially secure and have 
>access to the world's most sophisticated tools of communication.
>
>But what are they telling you?
>
>India has a long , long way to go. First you will need to raise a 
>new generation of Indians who are capable of thinking clearly and 
>critically. The ability to do good math or write software code or 
>producing good exam. takers by the zillions riding on the back of 
>rote-learning sans the critical component, will never take the 
>nation to the promised--make that --wished for --- land.
>
>That job could be done only by people like yourselves. And by 
>CHALLENGING everything that you take for granted. Don't ever again 
>say things like "--we can't change the law and must work within it".
>India has far too many laws that are a hindrance for progress. They 
>are designed to stifle the progressive, the doers, but to reward 
>those who break them. If you attempt play the game by THEIR rules, 
>your efforts, rest assured, will be dead on arrival. Question 
>authority, change what does not work. And most of all RESPECT the 
>yearning for freedom of its many disparate constituents.
>
>Kashmir would be a very good place to start.
>
>Best to you.
>
>UR Conscience
>
>  >_______________________________________________
>>assam mailing list
>>assam at assamnet.org
>>http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: /pipermail/assam_assamnet.org/attachments/20060718/f86464b2/attachment.htm