Dear all, I would like to share some of the highlights of the 4th issue of Friends being released on 20th Dec at the Guwahati University.
· Interview with Uddhab Bharali, serial innovator and social entrepreneur. This interview may be one of the first that brought genuine attention to Uddhab’s work at the national and international forum. Chiranjit Deka had submitted one of Uddhab’s innovations in the global engineering design contest organized by NASA Tech Briefs Magazine called “Create the Future Contest” in 2012.Uddhab’s Pomegranate De-seeder won in the top ten most popular categories by being placed second in the list. · Pinky Pradhan Bora , AFNA ( Assam Foundation of North America ) fellow who was instrumental in winning the Global Giving April Challenge (2012) for the AFNA project – Solar light , power to people. · An Interview with Amy Partridge - Amy was also one of the first to stay in the newly built ‘Alohi Ghor’ that was built and donated by Friends of Assam and Seven Sisters (FASS) to Parijat Academy. · LuitPad: A fully Unicode compatible Assamese writing software by Dr. Kishori Mohan Konwar, Vancouver, Canada Please visit the updated website of Friends http://magazine.assamfoundation.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=2&Itemid=5 Cheers Ankur Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. President John F. Kennedy _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
