This year, in the annual Great Gardens Contest conducted by the St. Louis Post Dispatch for its readership area, Banti and I were awarded the top prize in the amateur home gardens category for our tall-grass prairie and ornamental garden. It is a popular contest and is supported by most of the major nurseries, a local TV station and the Missouri Botanical Gardens, a highly regarded, internationally known institution. The top prize also came with merchandise coupons for $1,000 from various businesses involved with gardening and a laser-cut iron plaque by a local St. Louis artist.

  By Kalyan Dutta-Choudhury Louisiana Once again, Assam is in the grip of a devastating flood and, once again, the Assamese people are clamoring for the miracle to happen – that floods in Assam be declared a national problem and thus have the problem solved once and for all. That’s understandable. But, the clamor will die down along with the receding flood waters. The floods, in addition to causing extensive damage to life and property, would leave a lingering bad taste in the psyche of the Assamese people.

A Project Undertaken by Assam Society of America

Project HOPE aims to provide needy financial assistance to the B.D.S. Deaf & Dumb School, Kahilipara, Guwahati, Assam. It is located close to Jyoti Chitraban. The school currently houses one hundred six (106) resident and eighty three (83) non-resident students. The school has twenty one (21) teachers.

Kabita Das, daughter of Dr. Nirode and Cynthia Das of Shavertown PA, was married to Thomas Francis Keating of Colorado on June 4, 2004. The wedding reception, including an exquisite Hindu ceremony was held at the Newberry Estates in Dallas, PA and was attended by guests from across the US, UK, Scotland and Assam.
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