Shankar Barua graduated with an Masters in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston University in Huntsville, TX, on May 16th. Shankar recently directed a feature length documentary called Center Mass that has been released on DVD by Sam Houston University. You can see a promo for the documentary at Youtube.com.
Kids participating in various events in Northern California 2008 Rongali Bihu celebration.
Popular singer Zubin Garg enthralled the Assamese community of Delh with his popular numbers and a song dedicated to the Tibetan cause here during the Romgali Bihu 2008 celebration.
The Air India flight from New Delhi to Heathrow was delayed by 2 hours. The waiting room in New Delhi was bustling with families with restless tots and children returning to the US after spending their winter break with extended families in India, American and British tourists returning home adorning colorful robes they picked up in the streets of Janpath, first time H1B computer professionals hoping to ride the dot com wave.
I happened to participate and run in the AT&T Austin marathon on 17th February this year. I was running for this event to raise awareness about the wonderful work by Assam Foundation of North America (AFNA) and to raise funds for some of projects of AFNA. AFNA has been supporting a number of education and socio-economic projects in Assam and for this the necessary funds are mobilized mostly by Non Resident Assamese.
The Assamese community of Kuwait celebrated Rongali Bihu over two days, on 11th and 18th April, 2008.
11th April, 2008