[Assam] What a response!!

Wed Oct 3 21:51:30 CDT 2007

At 3:22 AM +0100 10/4/07, uttam borthakur wrote:
>Have you got all answers to riddles of life, except this, sir!

*** Do I HAVE to? I would submit I don't owe anyone any answer to 
anything, much less the answers to all of life's riddles. And I do 
not demand  that of others either.

>Not a litany of Kharkhowa woes, I presume some of us are not aware 
>of these; else they would stopped doing things that they do to 
>prolong the list of woes from safe distance.

*** Huh?   That was too complex for my little mind to grasp.

*** But the mystery persists: WHAT is a body to do about the litany 
of the Kharkhowa  woes laid bare here ? How could they be resolved? 
I have no problem with the aim to educate those in as deep a torpor 
as to be unaware of these, even though one could argue  that those 
who are comatose  are not worth the attempt  to  revive :-) . But to 
enlighten us on  how solutions could be found  would mean something. 
Repetitions of what we all know, does not.  It is little more  than 
an abject   display of  bewilderment.

Same for those who go ga-ga over it :-).

Having said that, I would argue that there is nothing mysterious 
about the problems cited. They are not new to the human condition. 
Others have encountered them, conquered them and are on the paths to 
progress.  Therefore it does not even require INVENTING or 
DISCOVERING hitherto unknown ways to deal with the issues cited. All 
it takes is a DESIRE to keep our eyes and ears opened and a 
willingness to learn from others and a determination to get it done.

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>Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
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>Isn't that an exhaustive litany of Kharkhowa woes?
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>But tell us something we DON'T KNOW :-).
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>The big mystery remains untouched: What is a body to do about it? 
>How could they be resolved ?
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>That is the issue, isn't it?
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>At 8:35 AM +0100 10/3/07, uttam borthakur wrote:
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>>I have come to believe that 'terrorism' subsists because it serves 
>>'vested interest' all around.
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>It serves the arm supplying nations.
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>It serves the nations having an axe to grind.
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>It serves the gun runners.
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>It serves the drug dealers.
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>It serves the corrupt army as it can do anything with the funds made 
>available, fund found and confiscated and also materials made 
>available including medicines. I have been told that the Indian army 
> destroy cancer drugs each year that could have catered to the needs 
>of the patient in entire north east region. Not only that, 
>such 'destroyed' medicines find their way back into the market:-).
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>It serves the police making hay in disturbed situation.
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>It serves the bureaucrats making hay in disturbed situation.
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>It serves the politicians... they use part of the loot for funding 
>elections and then take share of the loot out of counter insurgency 
>fund as well and can misappropriate developmental fund too for 
>personal gains.
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>It serves a part of the journalists.... who claim special privilege 
>..... from both sides. (Some body described them to me as Giant 
>Storks pinning the vultures (politicians) down to vomit the 
>semi-digested carcass and then gulping that vomit).
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>It serves criminals.
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>It serves the terrorists maintaining a life style that they could 
>not have afforded in the normal circumstances.
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>ONLY THAT IT DOES NOT SERVE THE COMMON MAN WITHOUT RICHES AND CLOUTS.
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>shantikam hazarika <shntikamhaz at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>.hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 
>10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } It seems that some of us are being 
>branded as part of an "unhappy gang with their so-called education". 
>And they would be 'selective' in answering their questions; which 
>means they would only reply to 'sincere' questions, from 'real 
>questioners' after their 'background check done'.
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>Well, in case they have to do a background check in my case, let me 
>tell you that my life has been an open book and if a background 
>check is requird in my case, it simly shows how much these people 
>are in touch with reality or the ground situations.
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>Incidentally, let me also tell, that there has been enough 
>background checks done about these people, their cohorts, 
>sympathisers, beneficiaries, supporters, hangers one and what not. 
>Lot of people already know who benefits from their actions, who are 
>actually propping them up. For example when they killed Sanjay 
>Ghosh, it did not require much background check to find out why they 
>did so, what was the nexus behind that sordid deal and who would be 
>the real losers if Majuli is genuinely saved in a very cost 
>effective manner. Obviously, they are buying time to prepare some 
>obfuscating response, what we may call "saale bere kobowa"  reply in 
>the name of background checks and what not.
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>Also they have already said that they would ignore "halfwit 
>questions and questioners". How more selective can your comfort zone 
>be...
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>Interestingly, I was reading something today and I came across the 
>follwoing phrase: The truth is that many terrorists are doing very 
>well out of violence. Extortion rackets give them a lifestyle they 
>cannot aspire in times of peace. They have money, excitement and 
>status: what more you seek in life?
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>Mantabya nisproyojan.
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>Shantikam Hazarika
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>Director,
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>Assam Institute of Management
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>PO Box 30, GUWAHATI 781001, India
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>HOME PAGE: <http://www.aimguwahati.edu.in/>www.aimguwahati.edu.in
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>Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 17:17:14 +0100
>From: ulfa_1979april7 at yahoo.co.uk
>To: assam at assamnet.org
>Subject: Re: [Assam] assam Digest, Vol 26, Issue 66
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>To:  assamonline
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>   ULFA  invites  genuine  sincere questions  from persons(not gangs) 
>not happy with their  so-called education ,wanting  to KNOW how to 
>fight and win their great future in sovereign Assam .
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>Firstly we will have background checks  done on  real (?) 
>questioners. Please tolerate delays.
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>   ULFA will ignore halfwit questions and questioners who think they 
>already know and  are already bonded mentally or monetarily.
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>  With  Best Regards to  respectable  Assamonliners,
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>  Rubi
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