Exploring the NE via air, road, rail, and water can be made highly thrilling. The main water route will be the Brahmaputra. There is feasibility of designing dreamlike cruises along this mighty river with leisure stays at heritage sites on its banks.
Event videos
We are very happy to announce that “Learn Assamese with Flash Cards” (USA Version) has been published. Congratulations to Mr. Rupesh Saikia of Houston for making it happen. These Flash Cards were formally released simultaneously on 4th July 2008 in ‘Assam 2008’ in Philadelphia and ‘Assam Convention 2008’ in Atlanta. The Assamese in the USA welcomed the Flash Cards, and in both the conventions, the limited Flash Card packages displayed were sold out.
You are cordially invited to sponsor one or more resident children at the Parijat Academy. Sponsoring a child is supporting a child for a period of one, two or three years. The sponsor covers the educational needs of the child such as the cost of books, school uniform, shoes, socks, school bags, exercise books, writing materials, sweater in winter, etc.
Assam 2009 will be held in Colorado during the July 4th weekend of 2009. An Organizing Committee has been formed with Mr. Ganesh Bhuyan of Westminster, Colorado as the Advisor. A preliminary meeting of the Colorado Assamese community was held in Longmont on the 24th of August. A core Host Committee has been formed. The members of the Host Committee so far are Dr. Jugal Kalita, President; Dr. Chandan Das, Chair, Reception Committee; and Surekha Baishya, Chair, Cultural Committee. Other committees and committee members will be added soon.
The yearly NRI Assamese get together, Assam2008 of North America, was held again this year during the 4th of July weekend. This yearly event is a part of the on-going effort to bring together the scattered Assamese community in North America for a celebration of Assamese heritage and culture. As always, there was good fellowship, fun filled activities, cultural programs, special workshops, special presentations, and of course, lots of good food catered, and home baked.
The cultural programs during the two nights of Assam 2008 were of excellent quality. The DJs were entertaining, in particular the team of Utpal and Shyam. National (India) Award Winner Tarali Sarma engaged and enthralled the crowd on both nights of 4th and 5th of July. The food and the snacks were great. The camaraderie was unparalleled. Many videos were taken during the Assam 2008 celebrations. Here, we provide links to a few of them. The videos were created and uploaded by Niranjan Bahma, Umesh Tahbildar, Ganesh Bora and others.