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Economist JG Barpujari passes away
Jitendra Gopal Barpujari, who served the World Bank as Principal Economist and was advisor to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), passed away in Falls Church, VA on Wednesday, December 16th. He was 68. At the time of his death, Jitendra Borpujari was a senior associate with the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at [...]
Mark Tully releases “Troubled Periphery: Crisis of India’s North East”
Legendary BBC journalist Sir Mark Tully, Padma Shri and Padma Bhusan and Knight of the Round Table, launched Subir Bhaumik’s latest book” Troubled Periphery: Crisis of India’s North East” published by Sage at the Calcutta British Council in a ceremony , in which 90 invitees, including top diplomats and Calcutta personalities attended. Despite pouring rain, [...]
An appeal from Binapani Puja Committee
On behalf of the Binapani Puja Committee, we the following office bearers desire to reveal the undernoted facts for favour of your kind perusal, necessary considerations and actions there of, as may deem fit. Binapani Puja Committee has been celebrating Sarodio Durgutsove since 1870 at its permanent site located on Madhabdev Path, North Haibargaon, Nagaon, [...]
Ranjan Das: Wizard of Corporate Sky
Ranjan Das, Managing Director of SAP INDIA LTD is no more ! He was 42 years old and considered, by many Corporate Gurus, as the ‘Wizard of the Business Management”. His passing away has created a void in the world of international business. The obituary of Ranjan appeared in National and International electronic & print [...]
A classic dreamer: Ranjan Das
Who was Ranjan Das? If I posed this question today, I would hear a myriad answers. Someone who knew him during his adolescence would say “Ranjan Das was a brilliant boy from Uzanbazar, Guwahati who received full scholarship to do his Bachelor’s at MIT.” Those who first encountered him in the San Francisco Bay area [...]
In Memory
I first met Sunil da at ASSAM 2005 Assam day celebration in Orlando and since then we kept in contact till his serious illness. Sunil da always had smiling face and participated in all Assamese activities in Florida. He was very caring and took excellent care of Abha baideo who was handicapped. They both loved [...]
Uddipana Goswami publishes a Book of Poetry
Uddipana Goswami’s poetry collection titled “We Called the River Red: Poetry from a Violent Homeland” was recently published by Author’s Press, Delhi. This publishing house has also earlier published poetry by Jayanta Mahapatra. Uddipana has been talking at various forums – most recently at the ICRC-WFS seminar on ‘Women in Conflict Zones: Survivors and Peace [...]
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. He was saddened and surprised that there were people who could not afford some of the very basic things in life. From then on, he found it very difficult to [...]
Sunil Nath is with us no more!
Dear members of the Assamese community in North America, It is with a sad heart that I bear the following news – our dearest Sunilda (Nath) of Florida passed away early morning Mon (7th Sept) due to complications from a stroke. With his passing, we have lost a big hearted and elder member of the [...]
A Tribute to Mrs Lily Saikia
Birmingham, August 1978, I was cradling my new born son in our bedroom. I heard my husband’s voice “We have a visitor!” I looked towards the door and saw the most dignified lady. She was immaculately dressed in a blue silk saree, clutching a well wrapped gift for our son. Her flawless fair complexion with [...]
Lily Saikia passes away
Dear Friends, It is indeed a difficult task to write a tribute to a person with so many good qualities. No amount of words would be enough to praise such a good soul. It was Lily Saikia (Ilu mahi) was one such person for whom no words of praise would suffice to describe the qualities [...]
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