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- Anee & Ranjan Deka
On April 10th, seventeen families (55 people including children) from Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky gathered in the house of Anee and Ranjan Deka at Cincinnati for a pre-convention meeting and to celebrate Bihu. The occasion was heightened by the presence of Dr. and Mrs. Manoranjan Bezboruah from Washington DC. For the families from the heartland being the organizers of this year’s Assam Convention at Nashville, it was a wonderful forum to touch the details of the preparations and the progress made.
- Binapani Sarmah, Photograph by Sanjay Saikia
The Assamese community in North Eastern United States gathered to welcome the Assamese New Year at the Adlersgate UMC Church, on Ryders Lane, East Brunswick, New Jersey, on Saturday, April 17th, 2010. After a long bitter, harsh and cold winter, the weather was reasonably pleasant on the day of the celebration.
It is the festival of joy and happiness that breaks through the ethno-religious barriers. It is the most endearing festival for all the people of Assam - irrespective of caste, creed, religion, faith and belief. The Rongali Bihu is celebrated every year by the Assamese community of Greater Washington DC area with the usual regalia, pomp and gaiety. Wearing traditional attire, feasting on from pithas and larus to a grand Dinner and participating in colorful cultural extravaganza - complete with song and dance – the Assamese community celebrated this year’s Bihu at Germantown, MD on the 17th April, 2010 (3rd Bohag, 1933 Saka).
