But for those living in the heartland it is a forbidden land, a land of no return. The Northeast is an ethno- cultural frontier encompassing much of India’s rich but lesser known Mongoloid heritage, a transition zone of linguistic, racial and religious streams.

The subject is quiet old from his student days he said, but one that is too dear to his heart. And, I guess none of us could deny its importance as we have always been looking towards it at times of both joy and pain. As crying babies we used to seek our parent’s shoulders…as youngsters we seek friends… as grown ups we look for lovers….and as adults we look for self-reliance……and the list is endless till we finally seek God.

Arguably, I started too early to fall for a sweet young thing in the year of the moonlanding. Not surprisingly mama had once remarked, "Can’t tie his shoe laces and he is in love!" At kindergarten, my sister’s friend Dolly and I were the only ones in school who came closest to what I was to learn later, teenagers proudly called 'going steady'.

Because, for Shabnam Hussain, life was a journey towards fulfiling her goal. And she did. She became a fashion designer.

Born in Jorhat, Shabnam realised in the early part of her life that her calling lay in dressing up people albeit in her own creations.
Armed with a degree in designing from the South Delhi Polythechnic, Shabnam set forth to prove her worth to the world. After working and training under experts she stepped into the real world to carve an identity for herself in the world of haute couture in the year 1997.

Dear Ex-Cottonian,

The Cotton College Centenary Celebration Committee offers its belated New Year greetings to you and your family.

Probably you are aware of the Centenary Celebration of Cotton College, which was started on 27 May 2001 and to be completed on 26 May 2002. Already three phases of the celebration have been successfully completed – the inaugural phase (27-29 May 2001), the second phase (6-8 Sept 2001), the third phase (20-22 Jan 2002).

Revolveror Hanhi
By Khobir Ahmed

Publishers: Bani Prakashan Private Limited

Price: Rs 30

The public has time and again learnt this bitter lesson and the officers concerned have seldom given them time to forget it either. There aren’t many departments that have escaped this lethal bite.

What was most noteworthy and significant about the foundation of the school was that the school marked the beginning of Modern Assamese School post-independence in the state. The name of the school was Ideal Nursery, and the man who designed the school was Professor Sushil Sharma.

Even though there were many schools, mostly government schools, in the state at that time but the educational pattern of those schools were mostly outdated and old fashioned and not even up to the standards of schools which existed around the same time in the rest of the country. Remembers Sushil Sharma today,