Like in the previous years, ASA is planning to bring out a colorful magazine in July 2004. We want to take this opportunity and request you for articles in both Assamese and English. We will appreciate getting them by mid-May. Please send your contributions to Rabin Deka (rabindeka@yahoo.com) or Jukti Kalita (jukti_kalita@ml.com)
Michael Fincke, who is married to Renita Saikia, of Houston is the Flight Engineer and Space Station Science Officer of Expedition 9, is scheduled to take off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on April 18 at approximately 11:19 p.m.
Baby Bezbaruah - this lively name belongs to a
colorful and a gracious woman, who was my mother.
I am the 2nd of her six children. She left my father
and all of us, totally heartbroken, for her heavenly
abode at a very young age, on March 1st, 2004.
Quite often, I see people in their 70's and 80's with
colorful attires driving all around the place in Houston
- and seeing them I was (and still am, though my
mother is gone) always relieved and thankful to God
for allowing Science/Technology be so progressive as
Each year, U.S. News ranks graduate programs in the areas of business, education, engineering, law, medicine, sciences, humanities and arts. These rankings are based on two types of data: expert opinion about program quality and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school's faculty, research, and students. For the rankings in all areas, indicator and opinion data come from surveys of more than 1,000 programs and nearly 9,100 academics and other professionals conducted in fall 2003.
The Tropical Rainforests of the world are ancient, complex ecosystem, teeming with diverse life forms. Here there are soaring trees, their trunks are often buttressed; a lofty canopy of branches and leaves, with deep shade below; climbing lianes and palms; plants growing on other plants; a rather bare floor with lumpy roots writhing across it, a dusting of fallen leaves, and scattered ferns and seedlings. Butterflies dance in rare shafts of sunlight from the above, birds make exotic noises, and insects sizzle and click.
Niribili Sarmah has published her first book! Niribili ispopularly known as Niky among her friends. She is just nine years old. She lives with her parents in Secane,Pennsylvania, USA. Niky has written many stories and published few of them in her school publishing center. The“Thanks Giving Stories” is her first story collection book. Ithas total 9 very interesting stories in 49 color pages. TheISBN number is 1-59196-536-5.
Bihu in Thailand
The Assamese residents in Thailand regularly celebrate Bihu there. I was in Thailand
from 1996 to 2000 and enjoyed the celebration every year mainly hosted in the campus
of Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). There were 10 to 15 people at some point of time,
but we never had problem of gathering as many other Indians, Thai and Chinese friends
joined us in the feast and dance. Though we did not have ‘dhulia’ and ‘dhol’ at that
period, but we made full use of music systems for our continuous bihu dance. As many
To My Young Friends In Assam
Assam Society of America (ASA) wishes everyone a
Very Happy Bohag Bihu. May the New Year bring
your great success, prosperity and happiness to you
and yours. Please become a member of ASA and
contribute to the many excellent projects in which
ASA is involved. In particular, your hearty
participation and generous contribution are sought
for three projects: Digitizing Assamese hand-written
manuscripts, Adopt-A-Child and High School
Scholarships. Please contact me if you want to be a
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