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Breath of Life: Anirban Das

Anirbaan Das

Just before leaving the country on September 13, Anirbaan informed, “In this tour I will be touching Liverpool in England for a concert and I am very excited about it”. He added, “I am also an avid fan of the Beatles and since it was in Liverpool that they made their mark, this venue has always been very special for me.” The Ghazal singer further added, “In my earlier European tours I was not lucky enough to perform in Liverpool but by the grace of God and the love of the Indian people for me – it has materialized this time.”

Flood Relief Concert in New Jersey

Among those artists who showcased their talents
include Ms. Gayatree Sarma of Guwahati, Mr. Rabin Goswami of Mangaldai, Mr. Sankumani Sarma of Guwahati, and Guruji Surendra Katthulla of Hyderabad who were supported by Mr. Bidip
Sinha of Guwahati, and Mr. Shivalik Ghosal of West Coast, USA in tabla. All the artists
currently live in USA. The evening was emceed by Ms. Ruby Bordoloi of Piscataway, New
Jersey. The money raised will be disbursed through various organizations in Assam to aid
the victims of the most recent flood. It is the sincere hope of the expatriate Assamese

REMIX MANIA

SOMEWHERE AROUND mid-1998 when Indipop was going through a bad phase, when Bhangra was the only thing which made money and when remixing only meant adding that predictable stereotyped `jhankar\\' beats, one album which stood out was Jalwa.

It was a remix album — with a difference. Lesser-known Hindi film songs were treated by Jayanta Pathak, and the end result was a very energetic, groovy set of some 10 songs which rocked the music scene and for the first time, discos in the country actually grooved to a Hindi song called Yeh Hai Jalwa.

Smita Barua, an Assamese Advocate in DC, USA

Smita Barua, Advicate in DC, USAShe is Smita Baruah, who, in a short span of just six years in Washington DC has established herself as one of America’s leading policy advocates in the field of international development. Her’s is a rare case of a young woman from the North-East succeeding in her field of activity in her adopted country America, arguably the richest and most powerful nation in the globe.

IIT Guwahati to host Techniche 2004 from Sept 3

From September 3 to 5, the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati would host Techniche 2004 their sixth annual national-level technical festival. The festival aims at providing a common platform for the young science enthusiasts of the North East, where they can interact and compete with a promising lot of science enthusiasts from other parts of the country. The event would familiarise science enthusiasts with some cutting edge developments in science and technology.

Two Years of Community Information Centre(CIC) in Assam

CIC has been established for ICT development in Block Level.CIC has established in every Development Block in Northeast under Department of Information Technology, Govt of India.

The Main Objective of CIC are:

Rural Cyber Cafe, Training,Government to Citizen Service, Access to database of socialinterest for public, Market Access & E-Commerce, E-Medicine, E-Consulting, Entertainment Centre.

It is a on_line Technology base communication(VSAT) Centre. The main purpose of these centres are to communicate rural people to the other part of world through Internet.

Challenging fate

Sishu SarothiThey named her Aparajita – the undefeated one. But it did not take long for their illusion to be dispelled. Aparajita seemed to drool a lot, her eyes seemed unfocused. There was no co-ordination in her movements. Worse, she took inordinately long to reach the normal baby milestones. While others her age began to walk and talk, Aparajita simply drooled and struggled to stand. The apple of their eye, their pride and joy, quickly turned into a painful embarrassment.

Assam: Taken by the Flood

MORE than a month after the second wave of floods hit Assam on June 24, life is yet to return to normal gear in the state. Of the more than 1.5 crore people whose houses were wholly or partially submerged in the flood waters of the Brahmaputra and its numerous tributaries, about 15 lakh are yet to return home — largely because there are no houses to return to.

Cramped in Assam’s relief camps, five lakh children wait for food, medicine

‘‘The biggest problem that we are beginning to face is the shortage of baby food, nutritious food and medicine for this huge population of children, a large chunk of whom are infants,’’ Assam Health Minister Bhumidhar Barman said today. Barman, also the chairman of the State Flood Relief Committee constituted by the state government, appealed today to international as well as national agencies to come to the aid of the state to tackle the situation.