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Community News - Visitors from Assam

Dr. Mrinal & Monica Barooah from Guwahati are in San
Jose, California. They are visiting their son Manas,
daughter-in-law Seema Nayak & granddaughter Lisa
Varsha.

Dr. Premananda Goswami and his wife Dr. Jayashree
Goswami along with their high school going daughters
Neeha and Pooja visited the USA during the month of
July, 2003. They are originally from Nagaon in Assam
but they came from Saudi Arabia. They were in the USA
for about two weeks and visited many places in the
Midwest and in the East Coast. Their eldest son
Koustuv Goswami currently lives in USA. Several years
ago after completing high school in India, Koustuv
came to USA to undergo pilot training at Emery Riddle
University in Colorado and then Arizona. Koustuv has
already completed pilot training and he currently
works as a pilot in a commuter airline. Perhaps he is
the only Assamese pilot in America. Premananda Goswami
and wife Jayashree Goswami are now debating whether to
send Neeha to India or to USA for college education.
Their eldest daughter Neeha likes America and she
wants to study in the USA when she graduates from high
school in about a year and half. Neeha was born in
Saudi Arabia and has lived all her life in Saudi
Arabia. Still she does not have any Saudi rights and
won't get Saudi social benefits. All Saudi citizens
get regular monthly checks from the government. She
does not have any birthright. She will never get Saudi
citizenship.

Seema Dutta, daughter of late Bikash Dutta and Mrs.
Indira Dutta of North Carolina was married to Joseph
Lohr in late August 2003. The wedding was attended by
many Assamese families and individuals from all across
the USA. About a half dozen of Seema's relatives came
from Assam to bless the occasion. After the honeymoon
the married couple now happily lives in Raleigh, NC.

Mr. Buddindra Nath Gogoi and Mrs. Ahalya Gogoi have
recently visited the USA. Buddhindra Gogoi is a
retired Commissioner  of Assam Public Works Department
and Ahalya Gogoi is an author and has published
several books. They are parents of Samar Gogoi,
Treasurer of Assam Society of America. Samar Gogoi
lives in Omaha, Nebraska. Initially, his parents came
to Paris, France, where Samar, Archana (Samar's wife)
and Maya had gone to receive them. They stayed in
Paris for one week before coming to  the USA.
Incidentally, the Gogoi family visited the Eiffel
Tower in Paris the day before there was an electric
fire on the top floor of that famous tower.

Mr. Ratneswar Das and Mrs Bina Das, parents of Mridul
Das are visiting Omaha, Nebraska.  Ratnewar Das, a
retired Block Development Officer, is from Nowgong.
Bina Das is an active social worker in Nowgong. The
main reason for their visit to Omaha is to see their
brand new grandson. Mridul and Anjana Das are the
successful parents of a little boy, born on September
10, 2003. The little boy's name is Luit. Mridul and
Anjana want to make the little boy a great computer
scientist to follow the footsteps of his dad. However,
the others  in the Omaha Assamese community, most of
them civil engineers, want to make the baby a great
civil engineer. Let see who wins.

Mrs. Amiya Bezbaruah, mother of Achintya Bezbaruah and
mother-in-law of Nandita Bezbaruah,  is visiting
Omaha. Rit, the grandson of Amiya Bezbaruah is very
happy to see his grandmother after four years. As a
result of her trip to USA, the best thing that
happened to Rit is that he can now speak fluent
Assamese.  The best quality of this lady is that she
can adjust to any situation and is also a wonderful
cook. The Omaha Assamese community is beneficiary of
her beautiful Assamese cakes (pitha). The Assamese
community is  trying to impress upon her to make her
stay in Omaha little longer.

Mr. Santosh Kumar Chakrabarti and Mrs. Bhabani
Chakrabarti recently visited their son Deepak and
daughter-in-law Mondakini in Denver. Santosh Kumar
Chakrabarti, MA, LLB (both Calcutta University) served
in the Assam cadre IPS since 1956, and worked for CBI,
BSF, Indian Railways and retired in the rank of
Inspector General of Police, Guwahati in 1985. Right
now, the Chakrabartis are settled in Silchar, Assam.
Bhabani Chakrabarti has BA from Guwahati University.
She has written two cook books, a few books of poems
and one book on traveling US. She  has received
several cooking awards  including ones from Femina,
Bajaj, Sananda, and other Assamese associations in
Guwahati and Silchar.  She has won many prizes for
vegetable and flower gardening.  She has been
associated with local ladies congregation in Jorhat,
Dibrugarh, Guwahati and now in Silchar that made
periodic donations to the for the flood relief, and
helped poor children for education. The Chakrabartis
visited  for three months to see their baby grandson
Avinav.  They returned to India on September 26.

(Contributed by Mahesh Baishya, Dublin, California;
Kedar Bhuyan, Atlantic City, New Jersey; Mantu C
Baishya, Omaha, Nebraska; and Jugal Kalita, Colorado
Springs, Colorado)