Assamese youth magazine Jeevan has identified city’s Cotton College as the best of all the general colleges in the State. It has also selected nine other colleges in a bid to select the ten best colleges of the State. The State has now over 200 colleges recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has accredited about 191 colleges of the State.

The event got a headstart with a variety of delicious snacks including ethnic delicacies of ghila pitha, puli pitha, til pitha and narikolor laru being served to the people present, a release received via e-mail said.

This was followed by sports activities for different age groups of small kids, the teens and the adults. It was a great sight to witness the koloh bhonga, spoon and grape sprint, and the musical chair. Mrinal Rajkhowa, Nandita Rajkhowa and Amlan Chakraborty aptly conducted the sport activities.

In a telephonic interview with The Sentinel, the former student of Little Flower School, said that her mother had always been her model. Meghna is the daughter of Niru Buragohain and Surendra Nath Buragohain of Khalihamari and this was her second attempt at the exam.

The program was attended by about 150 persons from the Emirates of Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Ajman. The program was also attended by a few guests from Asom, who were visiting their relatives and friends in the Emirates.

The main feature of the Bihu celebrations was a cultural function held on the evening of April 13, where local talents as well as artistes from Asom participated.

The program included performances by Pulak Banerjee, the famous Assamese singer and Jayanta Nath, another contemporary Assamese singer besides famous Assamese cine artiste Jatin Bora.

In the meantime 18 months have passed and people are still experiencing tough times, much to their chagrin, with unscheduled load-shedding harassing the public and even causing extensive damage to their household electrical gadgets. Well, the step in regard to the ASEB was, of course, taken as part of the reform measures and strongly felt indispensable for the organization. There was also an anticipation as to a meaningful and result-oriented change in its style of functioning.

The function succeeded with the release of the “Samayik”- the magazine of the association by Dr. Hemeswar Dihingia, the septuagenarian writer. The magazine is edited by Smt. Protima Thakuria and cover design was tastefully done in Bihu motif by Ms. Priyanka Das. The magazine has a mix of writings, experience sharing, poems, news, and other variety articles by established and amateur writers.

A large number of families, visitors, and others with cultural ties to Asom gathered in Richmond Hill, on the occasion..

Bihu was organised by Rajib Barman, Mandir Panchanan, Parvez Rahman, and Dhritiman Hazarika. There was a door prize lottery for the guests, a prize for the best performer in the cultural show and a prize for best Assamese dressed couple/family. Tafizur Rahman and Saleha Rahman and Dalima Jeffrey offered their helping hands in selecting the best performer in the cultural show, and bihu gifts for children respectively.

Books – fiction, non-fiction or poetry – used to be among the preferred gifts till around the later part of the last century. Now, they would perhaps be among the least favoured, revealed a bookseller in Panbazar, the hub of book selling and publishing.

Products of painstaking research, the first-named titled is a compilation of Bihu dance and songs, besides customs associated with the festival. Thought-provoking aspects involving staging of Bihu sanmilans have also been discussed. The second book is incidentally the third edition printed on demand, and is a critical study of Bihu songs and dance.