Not to be left behind the folks back home in Assam, Bhogali Bihu was celebrated in a big and fun-filled manner in Saudi Arabia. To match with the local week-end holiday, Magh Bihu here was celebrated on 15th January 2009.

Around fifteen Assamese families, residing in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, gathered at Jubail for the festival.

On Saturday, January 24, 2009, the Assamese community in Northeastern United States gathered at the Kingston Presbyterian Church on Route 27 in Kingston, New Jersey to celebrate Magh Bihu.  The day started with a traditional Assamese jaal-pan consisting of a variety of pithas, laroo, and sira-doi.  At around 5 PM, the children of the community participated in games, e.g., hot potato and spoon-race follow

I always look forward for email communication from  Mr. Wahid Saleh.  Mr. Wahid Saleh whom I fondly address as Wahid da often delights me with email stories, anecdotes, beautiful quotations and many times with wonderful ideas. It was in one of such emails that he introduced me to the innovative and alluring concept of ‘Same Language Subtitling’.

While visiting the web site of Jorhat Engineering College www.jecalumniassn.in in the presence of my friend, I was confronted with an embarrassing comment—my friend immediately on seeing the main building of JEC on the homepage commented—the building looks like the one of a big institute. I modestly reacted—it is indeed a great institute that was established in 1960 by the Government of Assam and it has by now more than 8000 alumni as engineers working in different parts of the world.