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Welcome Ayesha!

By admin ⋅ March 29, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Preeti and Ankur Baisof California were blessed with a baby girl Ayesha on Friday, March 21, 2008.

Goodbye soldier! You always fought a clean and fair fight

By admin ⋅ March 29, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I was shocked to get the sad news this morning of my brother Rebati Dutta Choudhury’s (Shilabhadra) death. He was sick off and on for some time. But, who in his or her right mind would think of the death of a very dear one?
When my wife returned from a recent trip home, she […]

A Tribute to Xilo-Bhodro

By admin ⋅ March 29, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The Assamese writer Rebati Dutta Choudhury is no more. The news first registered on me rather casually. Personally, I did not know Dutta Choudhury very well. But the more I thought about him, the more I realized that I admired him a lot. My admiration for him was from a distance. I admired him first […]

AssamTimes.org contributor gets UNHCR-CNES fellowship

By admin ⋅ February 25, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The Guwahati based journalist and a regular contributor to ‘Assam Times’, Nava Thakuria has been awarded with the first media fellowship on refugee issues sponsored by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES). The Fellowship with the theme, ‘The Chins of […]

“INVISIBLE MOVEMENT”

By admin ⋅ February 25, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

NEW WORKS BY SANTANA GOHAIN
2008
There and not there
By Peter Bevan, Glasgow
There are three intriguing paradoxes in these new works, traces of which were seen in some of the paintings shown in her exhibition, “Silent Speech”, The Museum Gallery, Mumbai in 2006.
In the catalogue essay for that exhibition, I wrote that some of these […]

Catlie Baidew!

By admin ⋅ February 25, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

My father, Sir Keith Cantlie, served in the Indian Civil Service from 1910 till his retirement in 1947. So, in a way I consider myself daughter of Assam, a land of outstanding natural beauty with distant views of the snow and Himalayas.”
With her disarming smile. simple down-to-earth manner, the bespectacled Dr. Audrey Cantlie welcomed […]

Another Assam Lad Shines in Bollywood

By admin ⋅ January 31, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Music lovers from Assam are proud with the success of Alaap a.k.a. Dudul Saikia in Bollywood after legendry Dr Bhupen Hazarika and Zubeen Garg. Dudul joins the select group of Assamese with Zubeen, Debojit Saha, Banajyotsna who are recognized as the voices of India.
Dudul’s music in the latest release of State’s music sensation Zubeen […]

Anita Sharma

By admin ⋅ January 31, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Anita Sharma is a well-known Sattriya dancer in Guwhati. She started learning Sattriya dance at the age of nine years under the guidance of Late Guru Roseswar Saikia Barbayan, awardees of Sangeet Natak Akademi. After that she received training in Odissi dance under the maestro of Odissi, Padmabhusan Late Guru Kelucharan […]

Minoti Khaund

By admin ⋅ January 31, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

50 years of her musical career
Minoti Khaund celebrated 50 years of her musical career as a violinist on the 29th of December 07.It was a grand evening with a packed audience full of her friends, family and fellow musicians.
The program had performances by Minoti’s sister Pronoti Khaund on bhajans, her junior students and […]

Gautom Kalita

By admin ⋅ December 31, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Gautom Kalita, of Panigaon, Nagaon, became the Bantam class Mr. World during the bodybuilding championships called ESPN-Musclemania World held at Wilshire Grand Hotel in Los Angeles on 16th and 17th November, 2007. Gautom, son of Late Golok Kalita and Sabitri Kalita of Nagaon, learned to bodybuild by himself, without formal lessons, by reading books. […]