December 2005

Just came back from Kolkata where I had the opportunity to attend “Infocom 2005”, the country’s largest information technology show organized by Nasscom and Business World, an ABP publication. If I had known before that I have to submit a report, I would have jotted down everything as best as a shorthand typist can do. Now looking back, these are the main topics that held my imagination.

  He is a freelance journalist by profession, yet a magician by life's passion. Anup Kumar Das of Guwahati has been interested in magic for quite some time. Sri Das has performed magic shows on various stages including commercial stage shows, birthdays, promotional shows, trade shows and performed closeup magic. He has even performed magic on Doordarshan Kendra, Guwahati, PPC Northeast and broadcasted a talk on magic on All India Radio, Guwahati.

  And you know what to do once recording is over, right? Deuta would inevitably ask me that same question every time he dropped me at the All India Radio station building in Chandmari where I performed as a child artist in several Assamese radio plays between the ages of nine and twelve. I would roll my eyes at him and say I know, as I would skip up the long flight of stairs to the recording studio. Of course I knew what to do when recording was over. I was to sit in Borthakur Uncle’s room till Deuta came to pick me up again. I always looked forward to the days when I had a recording.