I do have ONE word of criticism :-) for Adip :
I took trouble to point out the names and achievements of some of our kharkhowa women here in the USA. But they got omitted. I hope our journalists would take a more emancipated view of our women, than they might culturally be attuned to. cm >But as a journalist he could have done more information gathering. ** In Adip 's defence I must add that we had a very short window of time to discuss the probaxi oxomiya community in the USA. Actually I give them high marks for their interest. I rattled off as many names, qualifications, achievements as I could while both Chaya and Adip frantically and furiously took note. They also missed some , and slightly mixed details on this and that. But such are to be expected in this kind of extremely rushed itineraries and interviews. Since I feel a bit responsible for many of the omissions, I hope readers would excuse both myself and Adip and Chaya for our collective errors and the omissions. We wished we had advance notice of their visit. We got a call from Chaya on Friday evening just before we were going out for the evening. And we had our Saturday evening booked from a long ago set outing with some friends. Had they or us had that opportunity, we could have done a much better job of giving them better, more organized information, in a more leisurely environment, with a larger gathering of our kharkhowa community in St. Louis. cm At 12:52 PM -0400 9/23/02, Bharat B wrote: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today's >Pratidin published a long report from St Louis. >Rajen Barua Excellent article indeed. Nice to know the achievements of >the Assamese community in USA. Adeep Phukan did a good job, some Assamese >have really done well in their chosen field (I am not talking about just >landing a job with our high qualification). Like that TV show about >Assamese people in foreign land, it seems he is only writing about the >hosts he visited. It is not to belittle the achievements of those people. >But as a journalist he could have done more information gathering. From my >short stay in USA, I gathered the following list, it may be partial or >biased from my point of view, but I have heard about them from many other >Assamese people in USA. Other netters can add to this list too. I am not >claiming this list to be the best, or complete, there may be some I have >not heard or come in contact with: Business: Prafulla Khaund, Baroda >Sarmah, Vijeet Sarmah, Bhuyan Family Teaching: Jugal Kalita, Deepankor >Medhi, Prasanta Kalita Medicine: Dr. N. Kakoti, Dr. B. Mahanta >Administration: J. Borpujari, Mahesh Kalita, Abani Sarmah Journalism: S. >Mitra Kalita Computer: Naba Borkakoti (written many books) Art and >music:?? Sports:?? Indeed from Assam, most of the people are professional >with advanced degrees and doing excellent job as engineers, doctors, >programmers etc. Just my few cents! >Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: ><http://g.msn.com/1HM1ENUS/c152??PI=44364'>Click Here >
