[ad_1] Nicholas Chyrmang (left) with Tim Curtis, Director and UNESCO representative, UNESCO New Delhi regional office. Every tribe and family in India’s Northeast makes food that’s ever so slightly different from each other. So, recipes are not really a tradition here, and every elder in the family can be called a food custodian. But now […]
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[ad_1] Nayanjyoti Saikia, winner of Masterchef India 7 | Photo Credit: Special arrangement When Masterchef India 7 winner Nayanjyoti Saikia reached his home in Gobindapur village in Tinsukia town (490 kilometres from Guwahati in Upper Assam) on Saturday morning, the 27-year-old mechanical engineer couldn’t believe his eyes; a crowd of over 2000 people were waiting […]
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[ad_1] According to one of the earliest compilations by Pathsala-based Jayanta Kumar Sarma, Bira is among the most dangerous spirits and is usually controlled by sorcerers. | Photo Credit: Instagram/@thebabayaga07 The spooks of Assam have become spookier with a digital makeover. More than a decade ago, author Pranavjyoti Deka brought out a bilingual thesaurus on […]
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[ad_1] Assam poet Barshashree Buragohain. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The 17 syllables of a haiku or the 14 lines of a sonnet convinced Barshashree Buragohain long ago that poetry is mathematical. Two months in jail now makes her do the math before giving in to her poetic urge. The police had picked up Ms. […]
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[ad_1] File photo of students appearing for the ongoing Assam’s HSLC (Class X) Examination stage a protest in front of the office of the Board of Secondary Education, Assam (SEBA). Assam police on March 18 arrested a teacher in southern Assam’s Cachar district for allegedly giving answers to his daughter in the sick room of […]
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[ad_1] Villagers in eastern Assam’s Khumtai cleaning up for a clean constituency contest entailing a first prize of 1 km concrete road. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT A race for the top prize, a 1 km concrete road, saw more than two lakh people in an eastern Assam Assembly constituency scrubbing, sweeping, raking, washing and […]
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[ad_1] A Maharashtra legislator’s proposal to send stray dogs to Assam to control their population has irked animal rights activists. | Photo Credit: The Hindu A Maharashtra legislator’s proposal to send stray dogs to Assam to control their population has irked animal rights activists. During a session of the Maharashtra Assembly last week, Prahar Janshakti […]
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[ad_1] Fizz and fries: Consumption of fried food and aerated drinks vary across States in India Consumption of fried foods and aerated drinks is relatively higher in Goa, many Northeastern and eastern States as compared to the rest of India, according to data from the National Family and Health Survey (NFHS)-5 conducted in 2019-21. According […]
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[ad_1] One of the major festivals of India, the harvest festival, celebrated throughout the nation, is known by various names in different states. Pongal in Tamil Nadu, Sankranti in West Bengal, Karnataka and Andhra, Lohri in Punjab, Makar Sankaranti is Maharastra and other northern states, and Bihu in Assam. Each region has speciality dishes that […]
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[ad_1] Ankit Khatana and Sachin Kumar registered comfortable wins in the men’s boxing at the National Games Ankit Khatana and Sachin Kumar registered comfortable wins in the men’s boxing at the National Games World championships bronze medallist Jamuna Boro and her Assam state-mate and World youth champion Ankushita Boro posted emphatic wins to begin their […]
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