[Assam] [asom] Abuse of Vaisnava Saint including Sankardev in the Internet --- ACTION
Chan Mahanta
cmahanta at charter.net
Mon Sep 25 11:22:54 EDT 2006
Dear Arnab Jan Deka,
Your note came to my e-mail box.
If recent experience is any guide, this mail will not get published
in <assamonline at yahoogroups.com>, so I am copying assamnet also in on
it for public information.
Obviously your note was in response to numerous irrational charges
and bald-faced lies, stripped of context, posted by Rabin Deka in
assamonline as well as assamnet over the last two or three years. One
of the people thus accused by Rabin Deka is myself. Usually I ignore
these things. However, having seen your letter recently in assamnet
in reference to a Xonkordev chair at an university in Dilli, and
seeing your qualifications and titles in the post's header I presume
you are a scholar on Xonkordev,a person of many talents and obviously
of some standing in Oxomiya society. With that in mind, and in the
context of your note, I have the following questions:
A: What exactly would constitute "--abuse of Vaisnava Saints", as
relates to Rabin Deka's charges?
B: Who would these " --unscrupulous elements donning the garb of
guardianing (sic) over Assam and Assamese within the Internet" be?
C: As a Xonkordev scholar, how would you think Xonkordev, or Madhobdev or other
Boishnov saints would have reacted to such "abuse" to their names,
real, imagined,concocted or fabricated?
D: As an LLB ( pardon my ignorance here, but I presume that means you
are a real lawyer, unlike a baam-ukil),
*** What crimes exactly would you charge such "abusers" with ?
*** Under what country's laws and in what country's courts?
*** What would YOUR standing be to initiate such a
"lawful" action?
*** How does the General Secretary of a "non-religious" "world-body"
get to initiate "lawful" action against "abuses" to
Boishnov "saints" who are religious figures ?
*** Should these "unscrupulous elements" be found guilty of whatever
charges you intend to level against them, what are the
punishment precedents in the courts of the country/ies with
jurisdiction for crimes such as these?
I ask these questions, because, as you must know,I am a potential
accused. I am sure the other potential accused also would be very
interested in understanding the nature and substance of your
not-so-subtle threats.
Your note, unfortunately, smacks of some semi-literate religious
fundamentalist zealot's political threats, that are so common today
all over the world and which does immense disservice to what
Xonkordev stood for and attempted to teach the people of Assam. Your
note makes it appear as though the followers of Xonkordev and
Madhobdev are more concerned about holding them up as icons for
idol-worshipping, oblivious of their teachings. To many of us, it is
an appalling display.
Finally, I hope you merely made a mistake, trusting someone's claims,
without thoroughly investigating the matter as a person of your
stature might be expected to. And if so, and if you wish to learn the
truths and the contexts of the charges levelled by Rabin Deka, you
are most welcome to write to me privately, or publicly. I will be
delighted, just as I am sure the other victims of Rabin Deka's
slanders would be, to provide you with the substance and context for
you to make an informed judgement.
Best regards.
Chandan Mahanta
St. Louis, USA
At 8:44 AM +0100 9/24/06, arnabjan deka wrote:
>Thanks a lot to Mr Rabin Deka!
>
>We were not aware of such abuse of Vaisnava Saints of Assam and the
>Assamese community over the Internet by the unscrupulous elements
>donning the garb of guardianing over Assam and Assamese within the
>Internet.
>
>I, as the General Secretary of the Guwahati based non-profit,
>non-religious world body namely 'Srimanta Sankardev Antarjatik
>Pratisthan' take it very seriously. I hereby request to anyone
>having any material of such nature which lawfully establishes the
>tarnishing of the names of the Vaisnav Sanits of Assam inluding
>Sankaradeva in the Internet. we would definitely use all our effort
>to initiate lawful actions against such unscrupulous elements.
>
>For further correspendonce, anyone having any information may
>privately and confidentially contact with the undersigned at the
>following:
>
>Er Arnab Jan Deka, BE(civil), LL.B.;
>Engineer, Author, Docu Filmmaker & Jurist;
>General Secretary,
>Srimanta Sanakardev Antarjatik Pratisthan.
>Phone : 0091 361 246 1223
> 0091 99548 16628
>
>Rabin Deka <rabindeka at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>Further to the web-publishing of following
><http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/message/2531>open-letter
>highlighting the equation of cumulative abuse that I would like a
>solution it appears that:
>
>the server <http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/>http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/
>had been disabled by the University of Colorado at Colorado Spring
>the folder
><http://manuscript.assam.org/>http://manuscript.assam.org/ had been
>disabled by Assam Company of America
>Above were the two primary Internet sources of plagiarized Vaishnava
>scriptures authored by eleven people including former Assam Society
>of America Presidents, a UOANA president and Editor/Editor-In-Chief
>of Assam Society of America Newsletter - the work of native-Assamese
>Americans.
>
>Search engines still display some disrespectful writing on Vaisnava
>as well as calling my mother-tongue "dhekeri" published by
><http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/>http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/. So I am
>considering to ask for the consulting services of Professor Marijke
>F. Augusteijn of University of Colorado at Colorado Spring assuming
>he might have a way to clean-up the remaining threads.
>
>While I am still researching in regards to the threads from Assam
>Company of America property, and would welcome any suggestion/input.
>
>In addition, the following two artilces are on public-review.
>
><http://geocities.com/paribhram/pr/vaisnava_abuse.html>Abuse cum
>Plagiarism on Vaisnava Matter
><http://geocities.com/paribhram/pr/sumu_chihou_abuse.html>The
>Plagiarism on Watashi no Sumu Chihou over a Decade
>Would welcome any suggestion/input.
>
>Sincerely,
>Rabin Deka
>
>
>An Open Letter:
>
>
>July 9, 2006
>
>Administrator,
>Assam-Net <mailto:assam at pikespeak.uccs.edu>1 <mailto:assam at assamnet.org>2 <http://www.geocities.com/paribhram/as/jk_asa_president.html>3
>Editor-In-Chief, Assam Society of America
>Newsletter <http://www.geocities.com/paribhram/as/jk_asa_president.html>3
>President, Assam Society of
>America <http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:jfy_L7XKUGwJ:www.assamsociety.org/asa_letter_president.html+%22sanjib+bhuyan%22+%22president%22+%22asa%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2>5 <http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:VyXvbi0XeNYJ:www.cook.rutgers.edu/~bhuyan/+%22sanjib+bhuyan%22+%22jorhat%22+%22bangkok%22+%22Agricultural%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1>6
>President, Assam Company of
>America <http://www.geocities.com/paribhram/as/jk_asa_president.html>3 <http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:wKoT2sql-GAJ:www.assamcompany.com/management.htm+%22assam+company+of+america%22+%22president%22+%22Dr+J.+Kalita%22+%22vice+president%22+%22b+gogoi%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1>8
>
>To Whom It May Concern:
>
>
>Dear Sirs:
>
>I would like to request you to kindly delete any/all
>Vaisnava-thread(s) including but not limited to the names of any
>past Vaisnava gurus Hemasaraswati, Madhavakandali, Ramasaraswati,
>Mahendrakandali, Sankaradeva, Madhavadeva, Damodaradeva, Harideva as
>well as present Saranasarya or Satradhikar from any mail-archive or
>newsletter or URL under your authority:-
>
>should such mail-archive or newsletter or URL include any material
>of the nature "inappropriate-language" "gay-stuff" "gay-marriage"
>"direct or indirect Homosexual/Lesbian-talk";
>or otherwise Vaisnava-thread(s) that has been presented in a
>"disrespectful-manner";
>and kindly delete any/all such Vaisnava-thread(s) within twelve days
>counting from July 12, 2006 in order to help me avoid in drafting
>more open-letters or call for public-review articles.
>I would also like to request you to kindly use the Roman-Sanskrit
>writing style as can be seen in link
><http://www.bhagavad-gita.org/>Bhagavad-Gita should you present any
>Vaisnava-terminology using Roman-script through mail-archive or
>newsletter or URL, i.e., kindly do not use "x" for any
>Vaisnava-terminology.
>
>Truly,
>
>Rabin Deka
>San Jose, California
>E: <mailto:rabindeka at yahoo.com>rabindeka at yahoo.com
>
>SARANA
> <http://www.bhagavad-gita.org/Gita/verse-18-62.html>Bhagavad-Gita
>18|66
>
>
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