Rajib-da, good to hear your experience. This saturday I attended my first Assamese get-together in US. First time in US I helped arrange a party. Quite a memorable experience -most were in IT field and had come within the last 10 years. The only self employed person was a lawyer who had come to do PhD 35 years ago -he seems to have helped many Assamese organizations in their incorporation. Umesh
Rajib Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My visits to India this time took me to a small little outpost called Kalasa about a 100Km from Mangalore in Karnataka - my wife's ancestral place. I was a little apprehensive about going that far out and eating vegetarian/coconut laced food every day for a week. When I landed however my misgivings gave away immediately. The land is hilly / moutainous, the Bhadra river actually flows with a current amongst boulders and when you swim you can actually flow with the current further downstream. The water is sweet. Almost like many areas of Arunachal Pradesh I have personally experienced. Amongst the coffee plantations, there is a huge push towards tea as well with many tea estates. The Bangur group has an estate of 3600 acres out there. And to top it all, my small little son saw an elephant on the road for the first time. It almost felt like being home. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org Umesh Sharma 5121 Lackawanna ST College Park, (Washington D.C. Metro Region) MD 20740 1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone] Ed.M. - International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Class of 2005 weblog: http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/ website: www.gse.harvard.edu/iep Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
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