A couple of nights ago, perhaps by a strange quirk of fate,I happened to strike up a conversation with a lady,in her late 50's,who hails from a remote corner of Guatemala.Her name literally made me sit up and take notice.Her name is Rita Changmai.On further enquiry,it was discovered that her paternal grandfather,Jibon Changmai, is an Assamese from Chabua,a sleepy outlying area of Dibrugarh,Assam.Mr.Changmai,I was told, was in the US Army and he met his Guatemalan wife,Mary Celia Shoz,while stationed in Nicaragua.Later,they moved to Guatemala for permanent settlement,never to return to his native country.Could he be the first Non-Resident Assamese (NRA )? I wonder! I just wanted to share this information with you all. KJ Deka _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
