Category: Cover Story
December Delights!…..
“The warmth of blanket and a little bit rum”…..responded my cousin who works at TCI (Transport Corporation of India) when I raised him the question “What do you like about the month December?” When I slapped the same question to one of my friend who is a student in Delhi University, he answered very [...]
A Long-Awaited Memoir
It has been so long that I haven’t written something that now whenever I am reading an article, the novice writer in me wakes up and my hands itch to hold that pen and start writing. But the not-so-busy yet never finding time me gets too lazy to sit and actually do what her heart [...]
And The Journey Continues…………
Its been a year now!….. This very thought brought a smile in our faces, the other day when we were discussing on how to go about for our next issue. They say “ if you can dream it and if you can dare to do it….no goal seems too distant and no stars seems [...]
Latkan
Original: Lakshminath Bezbaruah Burhi Aair Xadhu Once, there lived a very poor Brahmin called Latkan. He had a very quarrelsome wife. She always kept pestering her husband for not being able to earn any money. One day, when he could not take her taunts any longer, he thought to himself, “Let me just go away. [...]
Granny’s Tales: Kaleidoscope of Tales of Assam
One of my favourite leisure time hobbies is to lie on the bed and get lost in the neverland of my imagination. Thanks to my very early introduction to picture books and grandmother’s stories that helped me develop a fertile fancy. The big fat raven up against the little birdie and the greedy Brahmin with [...]
Beyond Being a Quizzard!
A feel of being complete and to achieve what you had dreamt, what you feel is best for you, which is the reason for you to be working and the push for your goal… When someone works to get something and achieves it, we call it the ‘goal’ which he had set himself, the one [...]
Hues of Summer
Lemonades, iced tea and ice candy makes a perpetual daily menu list as summer steps in. With complaints about the heat, discussions about latest sun-screens and a humid gossip under the ceiling fan, fun seems to come to an end in the sizzling season. I sit on my study table beside the window and look [...]
Fistful brilliance
As summer the sun spreads its golden hue over the Thames and the world gaze in amazement at the greatest sporting event on earth, this eighteen year old lad from Assam will battle for honour and glory. On the western soil, with poise and determination Shiva Thapa will box his way to engrave his name [...]
Bihu: What it means to us
The splashing rain on the windshield accompanied by the broken twigs, leaves and dust and the very familiar, yet off late very rarely experienced smell of the wet soil was suddenly the best thing that had happened in the last few months. The piercing heat had just sizzled under the cold shower and the dust [...]
IT WAS WORTH WAITING FOR!!
Watched Sleepless in Seattle yesterday. Again, for the fifth time and first time since I met him…. I really don’t understand why a love-story or love is always called an illusion, unrealistic, and sometimes a figment of imagination etc. What is the logic behind coming up with a term like ‘fairy-tale’ romance? Well, since I [...]
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