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Rongali Bihu celebrations in Kuwait
GUWAHATI, May 24 The Assamese community of Kuwait celebrated Rongali Bihu in
Kuwait city on April 13 with a day-long programme. The morning event was
organised at the Al-Fintas Park, where the Assamese families gathered for
outdoor fun and games activities. The members were welcomed with a plateful of
different varieties of pithas and other snacks prepared by the ladies.
The attraction of the morning was the innovative games devised by Santana and
Sanjay Baruah. The children played the three-legged and potato-on-spoon races,
the memory game, etc. There were lots of gifts for all the children and
everyone returned a winner. The ladies raced and played the tekeli bhanga
competition.
There were many winners in the tekeli bhanga competition, as the members and
children cheered and guided the blindfolded ladies to the target.
The venue of the second part of the Rongali Bihu celebration in Kuwait was
Caesars restaurant in Fahaheel. The programme started at 7.30 pm with lighting
of the inaugural lamp by president of the Bihu Celebration Committee Mukut
Narayan Debchoudhury and secretary Anup Bora which was followed by the
presidents speech. Biresh Khaund took centre stage and set the programme of
events rolling.
The opening event of the programme was the chorus Srimoyee Asomir sung by
ladies which, set the tone for the rest of the evening. The ladies again
displayed their talent as they put up a scintillating performance of group bihu
dance. This team of ladies comprised Santana Baruah, Mousumi Sharma, Masum
Rajkhowa, Jeeta Khaund, Parimita Bora, Pranami Bhattacharya, Nilakshi Bora,
Mamoni Gogoi and Bharati Sharma. The rendering of Assamese and Hindi solo songs
by Anulupa Baruah, Mousumi Sharma and Aghore Bhattacharya accompanied by
Shyamal Baruah and Abhijit Sharma on keyboard and guitar respectively kept the
audience spellbound.
Bharati Sharma read out her Assamese composition relating the love and
affection of ones mother and the motherland.
The children amply demonstrated their talents by performing recitation, bihu
dance, dancing to classical and modern songs, singing and playing instrumental
music. Kimkim, Sneha, Juhi, Jubi, Mamta, Lira, Ronit, Arnab, Rimon, Rizwan,
Kiki, Runjun, Ruhi, Prachi, Ainish, Khushi and Upasana put up their best
performances and it was a treat to watch them perform. This was stated in a
press release.
(The Assam Tribune.25.05.2007)
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