For years, like a homing pigeon I’d return to a small salon In the backlanes of my home The door opened with tinkling bells Where beyond a pink curtain, red dragons flew across the wall I surrendered myself to the gaggle of girls With smiling eyes and poker-straight hair Who spoke a […]
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The Final Goodbye
Never before has Assam witnessed such a mass hysteria as people pour in from different places to bid goodbye to the ‘jajabar’ (a wanderer) for one last time as he lies in a glass-covered coffin, silenced by death. Lovingly addressed as ‘Bhupen da’ by the young and the old, Dr. Bhupen Hazarika was a cultural […]
Old Man River…
If a river is the highway of life, cultures and commerce then the Brahmaputra is beyond par in this respect. With the effortlessness of a patriarch, a unique family of man gathers at his side, worships at his feet and accepts his rule with resignation tinged with respect.