Echoes from the Beyond

A good road condition is needed for people to commute from one place to another. A road connection keeps people connected with each other and opens up lots of opportunities. For rural areas, a road connecting them with an urban area means an opportunity to avail various facilities that they usually cannot get in their village. However, the road conditions of rural areas are totally disappointing, so much so that a man can walk and cover the distance sooner than a vehicle because the vehicle cannot pass the muddy road. Small vehicles like Autos or Bikes find it difficult to ride through the huge potholes and muddy roads. Meanwhile, big vehicles tend to get trapped in the mud, leading to a roadblock that may take hours to clear. This sort of situation creates lots of issues for the common people and locals who use the road to commute daily. The Silchar Jaintia road crossing through Jarailtola and Baburbajar faces such issues. In the middle of the road, the condition is so wor...

Chess is a world famous game of sheer intelligence that is played by the most brilliant minds of our planet. It is no news to anyone that the game of Chess originated from our nation, India itself. However, the game of chess is not that popular among the students of Barak Valley; this changes now. Assam University recently issued a notification, informing that the university, for the first time in history, has constituted a Chess Club. The Assam University Chess Club is the first such club in the history of this university. This development has the potential to increase the interest of more people of this university and the valley in the magnificent game of chess. Arghadeep Das, a student of the Department of Library Science, is the coordinator of this club. He is also the Assistant General Secretary of Cachar District Chess Association. The other members of the club are; Bedanta Pratim Medhi of the Department of Pharmaceutical Science, Anuradha Chakraborty, a Ph.D. Scholar...

Shamik Chanda, a Silchar-based Kathak Dancer, in a video was seen dancing, inside his studio, that have been flooded by water. He was dancing, all the while his eyes were filled with tears. Amid the ongoing flood situation, his studio Nirantar had the same fate, like many other houses around the town.  Matching his steps with the melodies of Sokatore Oi Kadiche Sokole by Sahana Bajpaie, he was dancing. People with artistic mind have their own way to express their emotions. They use artistic expression to convey what their heart feels. In history, we will find artist all around the world, bringing change through their art. Through their unique artistic expressions, Artists are able to ignite all sorts of emotions into the hearts of masses. Poets through their poems started revolution, singers sang songs and inspired people to stand against their oppressor, dancers danced to show us the reality of our cruel world through their steps. Art has its own way to say...

Me-Dam-Me-Phi is a communal festival for ancestor worship in Ahom Religion. It is the most important ancestor worship festival for Ahom people. It is celebrated every year on 31st January in memory of the departed souls.  The Ahom religion is an ethnic religion of Ahom People in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. Ahom people are the descendants of Tai people who came to Assam in the 13th century following the Tai Prince Sukaphaa and admixed with locals. Me-Dam-Me-Phi is celebrated by Ahom People every year on 31st January to worship their ancestors. It is the manifestation of the idea of ancestor worship that the Ahoms share with other people originated from Tai People. Me-Dam-Me-Phi is a festival to show respect to the ancestors and keep their memories alive and remember their contribution to the community. Me-Dam-Me-Phi is an ancient festival and one of the most important festivals of Ahoms. Each word of the name "Me-Dam-Me-Phi" has its own meaning 'M...

For writing an Editorial Piece, a case has been filed against the founder of Barak Bulletin, Mr. Anirban Roy Choudhury. The case is under Sedition Charges; Section 124-A of the Indian Panel Code along with Sections 153-A, 501 & 505. The editorial in question is about the recent events that occurred in Barak Valley following Mr. Pradip Dutta Roy’s arrest. The title of the Editorial is “Welcome to the Paradise of the Spineless – We are Assamese, ‘Bhasha Shaheeds’ Are Dead and so are their Descendants.”  Mr. Pradip Dutta Roy is the chief convenor of Barak Democratic Front, a veteran advocate and a former student leader who was arrested over a protest against a poster in Assamese texts at a petrol station in Meherpur Area and demanded the poster to be replaced with one having Bengali texts instead, stating that as per the Assam Official Language (Amendment) Act 1961, Bengali is the official language of Barak Valley. The FIR against the founder of Barak Bulletin was lodg...

Government Model Colleges are basically for the areas where the quality of education isn't ideal, especially where the access to higher education is below the national average. In such places, the Government of Assam with special funding from Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) establishes Model Colleges. And one such college was established at Borkhola Constituency of Cachar. It is located at Dholchera Village under Jarailtola GP of Borkhola. This one is named Government Model College, Borkhola and it was inaugurated by India’s Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi himself. When one visits the premise of this college they can feel the soothing enviornment. Situated at a Hill top it is surrounded with greenery. Right beside the college there is a old and closed NETRIP .  There are six such Model Colleges established in the state of Assam. Two of them are in Barak Valley and the rest four are in Brahmaputra Valley. In Barak Valley among the two Model Colleges, one is...

Nina Davuluri the first Indian American who won the Title of Miss America Our Skin colour has nothing to do with beauty. Nina Davuluri an Indian American and the First Indian American who won the title of Miss America had proved it back in 2014. She didn't applied any sort of make up to make her look light skinned, she embraced her skin colour, that is her identity and she decided not to hide it. On the other hand, in our country we are obsessed with having fair skin, as much as so that we have a wide range of fairness related beauty products for Men and Women. The lighter the skin tone, the better looking you are, that is what the masses believe and the products also wants us to believe the same. Their ads are highly stereotypical where one person having dark is shown as a loser only to use their products and get fair. The second they turned fair their life turned around, they are getting job offers, marriage proposals, people started to take them seriously and what n...