Travelogue
Quest for Our Heritage Trail, Part I: Majuli
We all know what it is like to visit Assam after you have lived a significant part of your life abroad. The earlier years after leaving homeland the priority goes to ascertaining a secure financial future for the family. Things have changed now but in the 1970s and earlier years one was allowed around £ […]
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Windy Wellington: A City Extraordinaire
For someone who is fond of clear blue skies, lush green fields and rolling hills, Delhi is indeed a hard place to live. So when I got the chance to present a paper at an international conference in faraway New Zealand, I lapped it up immediately and almost broke into an impromptu Bihu, only […]
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My trip to Yellowstone National Park
I set my alarm for 5:30 in the morning. A shower followed by a quick breakfast and then I drove down to my university campus at 6:30. As we gathered in the Outdoor Recreation Program building, our van was parked just outside. Nikki, our trip leader, called me and asked me to stow my […]
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Impressions of Thailand
My travel preparations for attending the First NORTH EAST INDIA TRADE AND INVESTMENT WEEK in Bangkok on October 1-4, 2007, were very hectic. Piling workload, daughter’s ensuing half-yearly examinations, and pressures of nuclear family living pushed it to the last hour. At the last minute, I decided to go with just one […]
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Trip to China (2004-2006) - An Assamese American’s Perspective
Knowing that it had been closed to foreign tourists until very recently, Communist China – with its ancient culture, art and historical sites has always fascinated me. When an opportunity came my way to visit China, I was delighted. My husband, a Lucent Technologies Technical Director, had been chosen to head the Greater China […]
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