Thanks to all the participants and the hard work from many in the Texamese community, the 2012 Rongali Bihu at Houston celebrtaed on April 14,2012 was yet another success keeping up the Texas tradition. More than 100 people from Houston, Austin, Tyler, College Station and even from Louisiana and Oklahoma attended the event.

Morning picnic started at the Sugarland Memorial park with flag hoisting , breakfast with delicious Sira-Doi, Bihu snacks followed by a fabulous B'BQ lunch. Thanks to untiring efforts by Anupam, Jay, Pallavi, Archana, Meghna and others for making our traditional B'BQ lunch a huge success. Everybody enjoyed various sports activities for children and adults organized by the ever enthusiastic Duttabarua and Ramgopal. As usual, the highlight of the morning was Pithapona competition for the "Baby Bezbarua" running trophy sponsored by Sarangapanis. Evening program was held at Anjali Dance Center hall at Sugarland. Undoubtedly, the children's fashion show, organized by Manju Saikia and Reenita Fincke was the stealer of the evening program. This was followed by a delicious Indian dinner arranged by Ashok & Roopa Baruah and Bina Hazarika. The cultural program was preceeded by an unique talk and show on space program by none other than our space wizard Mike Fincke. The cultural program was filled with a lot of melodious songs, beautiful dances, instrumental performances ,by children and adults and of course the Texas size Chorus from Houston group. Thanks to Dil Deka and Dr Gautam Borthakur for organizing the evening program supported by Pallabi Bhuyan, Swapnali Sarathi, Meghna Goswami and others. A special thank you to our treasurer Bhalachandra Nevaskar for producing an immaculate balance sheet with some surplus.The most heartening thing about 2012 Texas Bihu was active participation from a number of young people, singles and families alike who have recently moved to Texas.