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Rajit Fights His Way and Wins Big Time

I still remember that day, some time during February of 1986. Three years old and now I had a new brother, Rajit Hazarika. Here was this quiet little bundle of baby fat and hair. It is hard to believe that this little person is now a behemoth, outweighing me by 70 pounds. And it is hard to believe that he has just graduated from Shawnee Mission East High School, especially since there was a time when no one thought he would be alive today. Rajit is 18 years old, going on 60. When he was four, Rajit was diagnosed with a rare neurovascular disorder.

Honor for Assamese in the US

Geetima Das Krishna recently completed MBA with specialization in Finance and Investment from Baruch College of City University of New York and secured 3.9/4.0 GPA. She has been inducted by Beta-Gama- Sigma, the honor society of international management society for being top 1% of management graduates of USA in 2003. Geetima has earlier done MS in Computer Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology, USA in 1996 and secured 4.0 GPA. She passed B.E.

Assamese Boy Elected President of Junior Honor

Rupak (Rick) Kumar Bhuyan was elected President of the National Junior Honor Society, William Davies Chapter (New Jersey) for the next academic year. Currently Rick is a Grade 7 honor student. All together there were seven candidates nominated for President. After the first round (primaries) of election, three were left. They were Rupak Kumar Bhuyan,Alexander Paralejo and Niah Grimes. Rupak was elected the President by beating other two candidates. Rupak is in high spirit about acquiring the position, which will last for one year.

Abusive Letters: A View from the UK

Since holou's missive appeared in Assam net, a few appropriate rejoinders have also surfaced. As an NRA from the UK, and obviously not belonging either to ASA or AANA, this matter really does not concern me. I, however, do feel that I have a little contribution to make. Abusive correspondences constitute, I believe, a species of the genre of the well-known poison penmanship. Whatever the nomenclature, keeping in mind what happens in politics in India today, the subject is conspicuously significant.

Investigation into Abusive Letters: A Preliminary Report

There has been a spate of emails recently with fictitious names on Assamnet (assam@pikespeak..). Some of the anonymous IDs that have been used are dasmadhurima@yahoo.com, benukalita@yahoo.com and holou@rediffmail.com. Some of the mails have been defamatory to the extreme, such as those from benukalita and holou bandor.

Anundoram Borooah: A genius and a scholar

Anundoram Borooah was born on May 21, 1850 in North Guwahati. He had his early education in North Guwahati and Guwahati. He passed then matriculation examination in second division from Guwahati Government Seminary which is present day’s Cotton Collegiate School. He proceeded to Kolkata to join Presidency College wherefrom he passed L.A. (F.A. later I.A.) with 6th position and B.A. with 3rd position. Anandaram had the ambition to join I.C.S.

C-NES Fellowship

Raiz,

Many of you probably remember the presentation, which I did on behalf of Sanjoy Hazarika at the Rongali Bihu celebrations at the India Community Center in Milpitas, California. The presentation was to raise funds for the Center for North East Studies (C-NES) fellowship program to educate people on Assam and the rest of the North East region.

Proposal: Media Fellowships For North East

In an effort to bridge the information gap between the North East and the rest of India, I conceived and launched the North East Media Exchange Program in 1996 (through the National Foundation for India), which awards scholarships to media persons from the region and other parts of the country to study and report on issues which they may not, in the normal course, get a chance to research and write about.

TSIC : Development – with and without money

The topic may be slightly confusing for most people. These are the people who think that India is not developed because we don’t have money. But that is not even 10 percent of the truth. The truth is that Indians are becoming less civil, less tolerant, less kind-hearted, more corrupt and more money minded. With people like these one can hardly expect development to take place. The sad part is that the good things have to start from the people at the top and these are normally people with money.

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SOLES for TOTS

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.

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