[Assam] 4th july meet

[Chan Mahanta]

O' Hazarika:

Apwnalwke' amar markhowa raizor xonmilonor kotha xudhisile nohoy. Moi 
likhim likhim bui li bhabi aasilw, pise xomoyor obhabot kotha 
puroniyei hoi gol.

Yes,two separate but equal events ( this is America you know?) held. 
One in the San Francisco Bay area by them upstart younger folks ( 
younger than my generation that is) -- their first. And another held 
at Niagara Falls, by the experienced, organized etc. etc. 'true' 
representatives of Markhowa Bhodro Xomaaj. ( Pardon me for my 
propensity for using such divisive language to describe our 
community! You know me, the indiscriminate flame-thrower.) I suspect 
you expected no less.

We attended the one organized by the upstarts. Why? For more than one 
reason. But be that as it may, you can see the proceedings of the SF 
Bay area meet, look up : 
http://www.assamesegettogether2006.org/newhomeindex.php. We went in 
force, the whole family and a bunch of our American ( I mean 
non-immigrant/non-desi) friends.

We enjoyed it thoroughly. The younger folks did a bang-up job. I took 
a much needed course on Bihu dancing to the delight of our young 
friends, one of whom told our children, who were away at the city, 
that their geezer father was the 'star of the show'. I am going to 
have a talk with this brat when I see her next time. I get no respect!

One of the real stars of the meet was 93 year old Sjt. Das, PhD of 
Boston ( I forget his first name) who must be the oldest living 
Oxomiya in these shores  and his lovely wife ( forget her name too) . 
He came to study in the USA in 1939, probably one of the first; 
served in the US Army in World War II, was sent to Assam. The couple 
was an absolute delight to converse with. Full of interesting 
anecdotes and piece of living history. I wished I had more time to 
spend with them. Turns out he played tennis with my late 
father-in-law at Cotton College and was a star player himself. It was 
a delight to meet Mr. and Mrs, Debajit Chaliha too, whom I knew from 
the days when he was the Principal at JEC, and I spent time in the 
campus with my older brother during summer holidays.

It was a lot of fun. We had a great time. There were no acrimonious 
political shenanigans to contend with. Only concern was when I 
accosted the unofficial archivist and Mohapuruxia censor all combined 
in one, who was there bright and early, no doubt to check if anyone 
was desecrating Xonkordeu's name or legacy, or if there were any 
headless mannequins to debase Oxomiya womanhood. But nothing untoward 
came about from what I can tell. And since no one has been charged on 
the Internet, not even cattle-rustlers, with hurting Mahapuruxia 
sentiments, I hope the organizers can relax, for the moment anyway.

Well, that's all for today. I will now take questions, but will 
respond only  if and when I get a chance :-).

Best.

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At 11:05 AM +0530 7/14/06, Shantikam Hazarika wrote:
>Was there any Markhowa get together this year on 4th July in the 
>United States?
>Today is 14 July and we have no news if any get together took place 
>except that
>Zubun Garg could not make it to the States.
>
>Shantikam hazarika
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