The premier show of the Assamese movie "Prem Joubonote" was held in Cinema 2 of Northwest Film Forum in Seattle, Washington, USA, on September 13, 2008. For the first time, the premier show of an Assamese movie was organized in the USA. Prem Joubonote is being produced by Vavani Sarmah, a Non-Resident Assamese (NRA) and directed by Loknath Deka of Assam with assistance of Vavani Sarmah.
I take this opportunity to introduce my new ongoing dance project for Posoowa e-magazine. The details of the project are outlined below. I have also attached the official flyers. The main idea is to introduce and elucidate the contemporary relevance of Indian traditional dance and literature (in 2008 the focus is on Assamese traditional dance and folklore) in the national museums of Britain.
The train came to a standstill after several hours. It was total darkness outside; I still knew that we were hours from Guwahati. I was sitting by the window trying to get some sleep. I had a difficult time sleeping - the excitement of the impending event was tremendous. I never thought that this train journey from Dibrugarh to Guwahati would be so memorable. As the train rumbled on slowly, I began to recollect the previous day’s events.
Jugal Kalita, Professor of Computer Science, was recently inducted into the Millionaire Club for obtaining more than a million dollars in contracts and grants to the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Jugal’s areas of research are artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing and bioinformatics. Jugal has published more than fifty refereed papers in his areas of research. He is advising or has advised 10 Ph.D.
In the current US presidential debates, one of the agenda items is to stop outsourcing and how outsourcing is harming the US workers. I wonder if any of us have some answers. Of course, much has been written about how it would help the global corporations and also make the US competitive while helping developing countries’ workers earn a decent salary (though about one-tenth [or maybe more] of the corresponding US worker.)
Santonu Goswami been involved in climate change research in the polar region for the last three years. He is a doctoral student in the environmental science and engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso and is working under the supervision of Dr. Craig E. Tweedie at the Systems Ecology Lab in the University of Texas at El Paso and Dr.
In the month of October, 2000, Paramguru Shri Shri Gurujana blessed us to have our own place to construct our Krishnaguru Delhi Sakha Sewashram in Bandhwari Gaon. We started celebrating our nonstop-12hours (6am to 6 pm) Akhanda Krishnaguru EKNAAM Kirtan from 2003 on 4th November in Delhi Sakha Sewashram every year.
The Brindabani Bastra exemplars from Assam, woven from the 16th through the 18th century, measuring 120 cubits long and 60 cubits broad, are rare silk textile fragments depicting scenes from the life of Lord Krishna in a floral, naturalistic and preciously elegant style. They are preserved at the Blythe House, part of the British Museum.
During one of our annual visits to Assam, our young son, felt very distraught when he noticed rickshaw wallas and poor children without any footwear.
Many would twist their eyebrows to hear and read some astonishing innovations of Shri Uddhab Bharali of North Lakhimpur , Assam.
Dear Friends,
Please join me congratulating Gopinath Munisamy for a remarkable job he has performed recently.
The rich Vaishnavite cultural pattern, propagated by Srimanta Sankardeva, the great socio – cultural reformer of Assam is a heritage, rich in expressive variety.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has invited to honor Rini Kakati at Buckingham Palace Garden party in July 2010 this year.
Rini Kakati lives in Harlesden, London.
Come one, come all! The Assamese families of Omaha invite your family and you to our fair city for a weekend of fun and frolic over the 4th of July.
