The Assamese people in Colorado had the opportunity to celebrate Rongali Bihu on April 15, 2006 at the beautiful home of Jugal and Bonmayuri Kalita in Colorado Springs amidst a lot of fanfare and gaiety. The daylong program started with traditional snacks like doi chira with gur, various kinds of pitha, narikolor barfi, kata nimki etc., courtesy Anima Goswami and Subalita Baruah of Fort Collins. Mukoli Bihu, in which everyone joined in with great enthusiasm, followed.

If we had no winter, spring would not be so pleasant..." goes a famous saying. This cannot be more apt for us living in the north star state of Minnesota, home of the Mississippi river. It is that time of the year when you feel like "whistling even when your shoes are in slush". But fortunately this time the slush and the snow was long gone and spring has sprung in its most sweetest way.With this the Assamese community of Minneapolis and St.Paul have celebrated the soul of our springtime festival with traditional exuberance and festivity.

Every year, extreme climatic problems occur around the globe, with droughts in some places and floods in others. Variations in climate and weather can significantly impact our daily lives in subtle ways. We are irrevocably linked to our ecosystem in events resulting from extremely cold winters, crop failure from draught, or emergency conditions such as flooding, heat waves, or forest fires. Some of these widely dispersed climatic extremes might have a common origin in the occasional warming of sea surface water in the central and eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean.

On March 19, 10 and 1, 2006, at the Frank Guaracini Jr. Fine and Performing Arts Center, Vineland New Jersey, a Perry Award nominated Best Director Joe Marrella recreated Rodgers and Hammersein musical “South Pacific”. Under his direction, the crew and cast worked tirelessly for almost six months to achieve success and they exceeded expectations. Tickets, at $12.00 each, were sold out well in advance for the weekend shows and it was about 90% sold out for the mid-week.