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February 2006

Priyankoo Sarmah Presentsm Papers on Bodo and Mizo

Submitted by admin on Sun, 02/26/2006 - 13:46

Priyankoo Sarmah, a graduate student in linguistics at the University of Florida, recently presented two papers on tonal languages of Northeast India. The papers were based on his research on the tonality of Bodo and Mizo. He had started his exploration of tonality of several languages from the Northeast of India when he was a student at the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages in Hyderabad, India. He has continued the research at the University of Florida during the past two years.

Food for Thought

Submitted by admin on Sun, 02/26/2006 - 13:38

Our body in like an engine and the food we eat is its fuel. It burns up the food to provide energy for work and thereby maintains its various functions. Again like an engine our body requires food for the growth and repair of its tissues, worn out by normal activity. Food is a complex fuel made up made up of a number of components each doing a specific job in our body. Natural food stuffs can be classified as cereal, pulses, nuts and oilseeds, vegetables, fruits, milk and milk products and flesh foods.

Indian PM’s US Based Daughters, Sonia’s Italian Family and Assam Focused Foreigners (Tribunals) Order, 1964

Submitted by admin on Sun, 02/26/2006 - 13:27

I had read about this new law that circumvented the Supreme Court (India) judgement repealing the IMDT Act some months ago. And I was wondering today (while based in USA currently) about my own situation regarding job and future career. I had planned to seek a consultant to get an H-1B visa. On the other hand, I was wondering about my desire to work in reconstruction work – i.e., education reform or capacity building in developing countries, especially ones torn by strife.

Dr. Dilip Das, Ph.D Bedford, Massachusetts

Submitted by admin on Sun, 02/26/2006 - 13:17

Anyone having an opportunity to study the life of Dr. Dilip Das of Bedford, Massachusetts will certainly marvel at the scintillating life led by this nonagenarian member of the Assamese Diaspora in the USA. Dr. Das treaded the soil of this foreign land with adventure when there was hardly any support from any other Assamese immigrants. In fact, he served in the US army during the World War II. Dr. Das, son of Sri Uttam Chandra and Padmaboti Das of Goalpara, was born and raised in Guwahati where he matriculated from Cotton Collegiate School in 1931.

Magh Bihu in Florida

Submitted by admin on Sun, 02/26/2006 - 12:55

Magh Bihu was celebrated in Orlando, Florida on 22nd January. Mrs. Kanika and Mr. Abani Sharma took lead in organizing the activities. About 50 people attended the celebration coming from Miami, Tampa, Palm Beach, Jacksonville, Lake Alfred and Orlando besides relatives and friends of Sharma family. The activities started with prayer and Naam Kritan followed by refreshments brought by all the families. The lunch was full of delicacies ranging from ‘Khar’ to ‘Masor Tenga’ besides ‘Sagoli and Murgi Mangso’ prepared by Floridians.

Guwahati as I Remember

Submitted by admin on Sun, 02/26/2006 - 12:45

Although Guwahati has changed tremendously during recent years, I still like to remember it as a beautiful city that I saw when I grew up. Nature has given it an active river; the river acts like a turbulent youth in summer and a gentle young thing in winter, with infinite nunces of beauty in its water and islands. Nature and history together compose silent epics on its many hills - Ramsa, Narakasur, Nilachal, Nabagarh, Kannachal. April heralds a season when Nature with her impatient hands starts painting colors on the skyline in parts of Guwahati like a Van Gogh painting.