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18 The Art of Saying ‘No’ The word ‘No’ means a complete and firm stop to all kinds of advances made to attain certain goals. Agreed, this small word ‘No’ at times, leads to a lot of displeasure and discontentment; however, it is of utmost importance that our children learn to use this word in their dayto-day life in a diplomatic and tactful manner to avert undesirable human actions in this modern and overcrowded challenging world. In the days of yore, when life was simple and needs were limited, people used to live happily in the society sharing each other’s joys and sorrows because those were the tension free days and one could afford to live one’s life in a leisurely way. With the advent of science, technology and industrial revolutions, although our life has become more enjoyable, we are however required to be more diplomatic and discreet to keep pace with the modern ways of living and to face the sharp tooth of competition at every step. If we or members of our young generation fail to fulfill these requirements then we are confronted with lots of undesirable mental stresses arising out of trifle issues. Some such stresses occur due to development of strained relations with friends and neighbors, tactless behavior of our children so on and so forth. It is therefore essential that children be trained during childhood on interpersonal relations and conflict management, and to survive peacefully in the society avoiding the destructive social strains. Here is a very simple example. Mr. and Mrs. Choudhuri are a working couple who remain busy from morning till night. They have a cute ten year old son, Minku who generally stays at home after coming back from school. The neighbor’s wife Sheila seems to be very cordial and helpful and often visits Minku’s house when the parents are away. Sheila’s eight year old son Suman is an unruly and restless boy. He used to visit Minku’s house while his mother took her midday-nap. On the other hand Minku needs to finish his home assignments during this time only as he goes for tennis coaching in the evening. Minku, being a boy with very polished manners, hesitates to say ‘No’ to Suman and has to spend his valuable time in playing PS2 and watching TV. They are so much mesmerized by its spell that they sit like couch potatoes before the television set watching anything and everything that is beamed to them. Ultimately they become TV addicts. Undoubtedly this has been very damaging to his academic progress. Eventually, Minku’s parents came to know of all this and became extremely agitated, and snapped off friendly ties with the neighbor forthwith. This has unduly created a mental strain on Minku’s parents, which was otherwise really not at all called for. This could have been easily avoided had Minku been trained how to say ‘No’ in a decent way to such actions of the neighbors. Refusal in a decent and cogent manner does not affect adversely in a child’s personality development but goes a long way in his Amrit Pritam wins IIFA 2009 award for Ghajini for Best Sound Amrit Pritam Dutta and Oscar winner Resul Pookutty have jointly won the 2009 IIFA Technical award for Sound Recording in the film Ghajini. International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards are given yearly by the Indian Bollywood industry. Amrit becomes the first Assamese and the first person from the entire North East of India to have won an IIFA award. The 10th IIFA awards celebrations are going to be held from the 11th to the 13th of June 2009 at the Venetian Resort, Macao, China. Presently Amrit Pritam and Resul Pookutty are jointly working on actor/director Saurabh Shukla’s “Pappu Can’t Dance Saala” and “Blue”. Jugal Kalita, Colorado Springs overall mental growth and is of extreme importance in grooming the child for the future. The way a child refuses is of paramount concern. Declining a certain request from the friends, ‘no thank you’ with a smiling face will definitely be more convincing and also beneficial to the child. Hatred is a destructive and damaging emotion. While refusing something to someone, the feeling of hatred or despise must be shunned. Politely declining a certain request in a convincing manner will remove many misgivings in our day-to-day dealings and communication. Our children should cultivate some strategies how to say ‘positive no’ with polished behavior and manners. At the same time, a child should also be trained to share the feelings of the people around society. During the time of crisis, helping the neighbors and friends is a remarkable quality. To sum up, we may say that proper strategies in saying ‘No’ helps in proper judgment and training for the future leading to a five ‘D’ life as follows: · Disciplined life · Determination to make progress · Discrimination of good and bad habits · Devotion to duty · Dedication By Reena Sharma Reena Sharma, a child psychologist, a social worker and a composer and choreographer, lives in Delhi with her husband Binoy Brata Sharma, Former Chairman and Managing Director of Oil India Ltd. - Editor. POSOOWA May 2009
Letters to the Editor Re: Power Crisis-Assam, Solar and its potential Monday, March 23, 2009 Dear Editor, Accept my heartiest greetings at the very beginning. I use the opportunity to congratulate Posoowa for taking initiatives to bring different burning issues of NE states to public notice. I am Manash Dutta and an Assamese by birth working for an MNC, General Electric, as steam turbine application engineer based in New Delhi. I introduce my friend Debajyoti Bordoloi, who is also a mechanical engineer by profession, presently working as Manager- Operations, India for HYTHANE LLC, USA. Hythane is into alternative energy/fuel sector. He is also based in New Delhi Sir, the major unresolved issues other than militancy in Assam is Power crisis. We don't have quality power available for our daily needs. Electrification in the villages is really in a horrible shape. This is due to many reasons such as lack of infrastructure, shortage of skilled man power, distribution losses, some geopolitical reasons, but mainly due to shortage of raw materials/ feed for power generation, the NE states have been suffering for long enough with acute shortage of power which in the long run has badly affected the whole economy of the region. The situation will never improve since we will never be able to meet our power demands with conventional fossil fuels (oil/gas and coal) and will have to suffer like this in the days ahead if nothing is done. Although we have a great potential for Hydro- Electric power, the huge capital investment pauses as the barrier to utilize this source of energy too. But we have the divine gift to address this issue, which is still unexplored. That is Biomass and Solar. In one of my recent official visits to different places in Europe, I was thrilled to see the vision of a company setting up a bioenergy power plant with a bio-fuel manufacturing unit. This unit was taking care of all the energy needs of the company along with a surplus. The raw material was dry leaves in their case. We also have a very good and easily available option of Biomass feed in our state, which is nothing but Rice residues/ husks and a few bio-energy plants along with sugarcane baggage. Bio-energy can help us in- 1.) Huge power meeting demands 2.) Creating job opportunities for the Assamese youth, 3) Developing entrepreneurs and 4) Bringing in some economic resurgence so that quality of life improves. Other major source we have in Assam is Solar power. The average temperature in Assam through out the year remains at above 20 Deg. C and which is a big advantage for us to set up Solar Power plant. In India already different states had taken initiative towards this. Gujarat had recently signed different MoUs with several power producers to set up Solar power plant about 500 MWe capacity by 2010. Northeast region has the capability of producing 15 GW per anum from Solar alone, which is more than sufficient to over come state's power deficit. 19 I would like to request Poosowa’s readers to bring this issue to Assam Industrial Development Corporation and Assam government, (we tried but unable to contact any one from these organizations). We have the resources, which are very clean and renewable, but we don't have the proper plan for exploration and execution. This is the time to take a call and address the issues before being too late. We are there to support for setting up pilot projects in some selected areas. We have the proper database available with us. Thanking you with CHEERS to GREEN and PROPEROUS AXOM. Jai Aai Axom. Manash Dutta and Debajyoti Bordoloi GE INDIA INDUSTRIAL (P) LIMITED Application Engineers (Steam Turbine) New Delhi-01 TEL: +91-124- 4354057 09871587984 manash_dutta30@yahoo.com debojyotib@yahoo.com ============================================ Re: "Mousumi Saharia: A musical career in brief …" It makes me a proud to see a girl from Assam doing so good in all respect of her life. The thing, which I would like to add, is her Australia visit where again she made us proud and took the good traditional Assamese geets to the heart and minds of those who might be away from there home but always want to stay near. I also congratulate her on her new life after marriage. It adds to it that the partner she chose also doing the same service to it motherland but wearing uniform. She recently got married to an army personnel. I wish she would do better in her life god bless her. Rupjyoti Das Hyderabad rupjyoti.das@gmail.com =========================================== Thanks for the Posoowa issues. The quality of the contents and subject selection is of high order. Please keep it up. Best wishes for the Assamese New Year and Rongali Bihu. Nilamani Sarmah, UK rumiruli@yahoo.com May 1, 2009 =========================================== Dear Editor, What a beautiful publication, every issue is getting better and better. I enjoyed reading Rongali Bihu celebrations all around the globe and also the other articles. Congratulations and good wishes to you all. With love, Mahesh Baishya, Dublin, California May 1, 2009 POSOOWA May 2009
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