2015 will
go down in the personal story of my life as a really momentous year where many
things happened... after a long stagnation this was the year when things
finally fell in place. Three of the most important landmarks:
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Sunday, 13 December 2015
Sunday, 25 October 2015
A world which seems to have missed the point altogether
Coming back to Guwahati and being here for more than a month this time helped me gain a little more clarity about what it is that I find strange about people's reactions here every time I come back. A few instances:
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Wednesday, 21 October 2015
After the end of the centenary celebrations
These last twelve months have been very full with various activities in connection with my father's birth centenary celebrations. Looking back after the end of the final event on Baba's 101st birthday, Kati Bihu day, the 18th October 2015, I have mixed feelings...
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Saturday, 8 August 2015
The 2015 Asamiya meet at Volkach -- another anniversary
This year has been a year of anniversaries...it had already started last October with my father's birth centenary celebrations. This year was also an anniversary of sorts for me. It was also the fifth anniversary of the first meeting in August 2010 of a small group of Asamiya living in and around Germany. Since we had hosted that first event, we thought it would be nice to do it again at home... what this year's event turned out to be was much more than I could have ever imagined...
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Thursday, 9 April 2015
Tuesday, 10 February 2015
A catalogue of failures
This last year has been a lesson for me -- I had started out with a number of projects related to celebrating my father's birth centenary. What has become of some of them in the course of the year is a veritable catalogue of things that went wrong and proof of the fact that perhaps the problem does not lie out there but somehwere within me... perhaps I have become a misfit in this world I thought was and which I still call my home.
Some details follow...
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