Bangladeshslowly slips to cycles of violence and chaos

Guwahati: As apprehended our immediate neighbourhas slowly slipped to the endless cycles of violence and chaos followed by the detention, arrest anddeaths of opposition party workers as well as commonBangladeshi nationals, while the south Asian country is approachingits national election in January 2024. The prime oppositionBangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has maintained its demand that theruling Awami League…

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Hindus in Myanmar celebrate Durga Puja

Hindus in Myanmar celebrate Durga Puja Nava Thakuria Thousands of Hindu families in Buddhist majority Myanmar (also known as Burma or Brahmadesh) have also organised the Sharadotsav (autumn festival) to worship Mother Goddess Durga with limited resources. The Sanatani Hindu people in Rakhine/Arakan State in western Myanmar bordering Bangladesh start celebrating the sacred festival for…

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Bharat Mata Pujan kick starts in Guwahati

Bharat Mata Pujan kick starts in Guwahati Nava Thakuria Guwahati: Bharat Mata Pujan 2023, organised with an aim to celebrate the legacy, culture and traditions of the great land, kick starts on Thursday (1 Kati of 1430 Bhaskarabda) coinciding the Sharadiya Durgotsav. Thousands of cultural personalities, art connoisseurs and patriotic nationals assembled at Chandmari AEI…

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Bharat Mata Pujan 2023 to showcase legacy, culture & traditions of the land

Bharat Mata Pujan 2023 to showcase legacy, culture & traditions of the land Nava Thakuria Come 19 October 2023 (1 Kati of 1430 Bhaskarabda) and art connoisseurs along with the patriotic citizens in the far eastern part of Bharat (India) will gather at Chandmari AEI field in Guwahati to celebrate the legacy, culture and traditions of the great land, as a five-day long festival will unfold…

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Durga puja, sans idols, celebrated at Kamakhya temple

Durga puja, sans idols, celebrated at Kamakhya temple Nava Thakuria Unlike other places, the celebration of Durga Puja in Kamakhya temple avoids any idol worshiping. The celebration goes for a fortnight beginning with Krishna Navami and ending with Shukla Navami of Ahina. The rituals like Mahasnan (ritualistic bath of the deity), Pithasthan with Panchagarva, sacrifice…

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Searching for Roots with Pragjyotishpur LitFest 2023

Nava Thakuria It was a unique literary confluence of authors, translators, art connoisseurs, critics, budding writers and young people, who assembled for Pragjyotishpur Literature Festival 2023 showcasing a series of panel discussions, interactive sessions with authors, a workshop on creative writing, a thematic prize money quiz competition, a multilingual poetry recitation, launching of books and splendid cultural programs at Asom Sahitya Sabha and District Library…

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Propagating Pragjyotishpur with a literature festival

Guwahati: An intellectual and interactive treat for the literary enthusiasts, cultural connoisseurs and budding writers is waiting to emerge as Pragjyotishpur Literature Festival 2023 (PLF) which will unfold a series of literary activities for three days in the historic city. The three-day literature festival, organised for the first time by Sankardev Education and Research Foundation…

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Demand for NRC across Bharat

Nava Thakuria Even though the outcome and experience of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) updation process in Assam turned sour, a national forum insists on updating the NRC with base year of 1951 across Bharat. The forum, Bharat Raksha Manch (Save India Forum), has made it a mission to increase awareness among common people…

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Motivated pro-Hasina articles shock many

Guwahati: Is it usually possible to get hundreds of newspaper-articles, prepared by independent experts on Bangladesh politics, published in various countries within a few weeks, particularly at a time when the south Asian nation is approaching national elections early next year? Or was it a sponsored campaign by a number of writers with dubious credentials…

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