[Assam] A Correction Re: being Entertained in yemerika

[Chan Mahanta]

A Correction here:

>  > who, if I am not
mistaken, was the Indian armed forces chief not too long back;


*** I  WAS mistaken on that. Can't always remember what general is 
what :-). I am relieved that retired general and our BS in this 
context are separate individuals. Whew! That was a close one!!






>At 8:44 PM +0530 5/30/08, shantikam hazarika wrote:
>>What a pitiable life you must be leading out there, that you have to
>>seek entertainment by reading about what is going on in Assam.
>>Fortunately, whether you can "believe" or not is of no consequence
>>to anyone here. So you can go down beyond calling someone a "Fool",
>>and continue to seek your quota of entertainment from here. You will
>>have all our sympathies.
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>*** I understand the disgust with my comments, coming as it does,
>from that disgusting land of Yemerica.  And I am 'cool with that', as
>my compatriots here may say. No offense taken. No hurt feelings.
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>But WHAT is YOUR response to the general's diagnosis and the chief
>minister's  treatment plan, Hazarika? I and I am sure  a good many
>others, would  like to hear that .
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>I realize and have sympathy for the fact that it might be too hot a
>potato  for YOU to handle, in more ways than one.  And I am not being
>glib about that. We all have our burdens to bear.
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>But if it were to be too hot a potato for me to handle, I would have
>kept my silence and not attempted to deflect attention away from the
>hurtful subject by attacking the messenger.
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>Of course I presume that YOU do know WHERE  the GOC, who, if I am not
>mistaken, was the Indian armed forces chief not too long back; was
>completely  CLUELESS.  And HOW the CM  sounded equally clueless if
>not SPINELESS ( in failing to point out the stupidity embedded in the
>GOC's comment to his people who are hoping to build a DEMOCRATIC
>society and by doing that educate  them); PROVIDED he does KNOW  the
>correct answer.
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>Shall we?
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>You will do the netters a huge favor, a fair segment of which STILL
>might not quite know what the issues here are, considering that I too
>come from the same system of non-education that they reel under.
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>You being in the educating business and being the avid supporter of
>democratic values as you are, I expect no less from you.
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>Best.
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>>Shantikam Hazarika
>>Director,
>>Assam Institute of Management
>>PO Box 30, GUWAHATI 781001, India
>>HOME PAGE: www.aimguwahati.edu.in
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>>>   Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 09:01:39 -0500
>>>   To: assam at assamnet.org
>>>   From: cmahanta at charter.net
>>>   Subject: [Assam] More on Never Cease to be Entertained
>>>
>>>   The following in Today's Sentinel:
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>>>   Giving up arms a must for peace talks: Gogoi
>>>   By our Staff Reporter
>>>   GUWAHATI, May 29: In what could best be termed as setting a
>>>   precondition for peace talks, Aso
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>>>   *** I can't believe this! Is this an unmitigated assembly of 
>>>FOOLS or what?
>>>
>>>   cm
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