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Assam 2009 gratefully<br />
acknowledges commitment<br />
by Biraj Bhuyan<br />
Assam 2009 will be held in Colorado during the July 4th weekend of 2009. An Organizing<br />
Committee has been formed with Mr. Ganesh Bhuyan of Westminster, Colorado as the<br />
Advisor. The site for Assam 2009 will be selected shortly; preliminary work has already<br />
begun in this regard. The Organizing Committee takes this opportunity <strong>to</strong> extend an early<br />
welcome <strong>to</strong> all Assamese individuals and families in North America and beyond.<br />
The Organizing Committee gratefully acknowledges a generous commitment by Mr. Biraj<br />
Bhuyan of Norris<strong>to</strong>wn, Pennsylvania, <strong>to</strong> pay for the travel of the invited artist from Assam<br />
<strong>to</strong> Colorado. The invited artist is National (India) Award winning singer Mrs. Tarali Sarma,<br />
who graced Assam 2008 in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Here is a link <strong>to</strong> an invitation by<br />
Mrs. Tarali Sarma <strong>to</strong> Assam 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKaND0XRfcI.<br />
Biraj Bhuyan, originally of Jamuguri, is a very successful businessman, primarily involved<br />
in diamond wholesale and real estate. He is well-known in the political circles in Assam,<br />
India and Pennsylvania. Here are two pho<strong>to</strong>graphs of Biraj Bhuyan, one with Mr. Deve<br />
Gowda, ex-Prime Minister of India, and the other with Mr. L.K. Advani, Ex-Deputy Prime<br />
Minister of India.<br />
Continued from page 5..<br />
The joy of seeing and<br />
doing ordinary things<br />
Anyway, the task is humongous from start<br />
<strong>to</strong> finish. Way <strong>to</strong>o humongous and complex!<br />
If you work for an intelligence agency in<br />
Assam, you just reflexively go in a show of<br />
force <strong>to</strong> Fancy Bazar or Bhangagar (most of<br />
the crimes are reportedly committed there)<br />
in Guwahati <strong>to</strong> catch terrorists, killers and<br />
mayhem seekers red-handed after they<br />
committed those crime and gone away from<br />
the scene of crime. No, you penetrate their<br />
cells, identify who they are, find their<br />
financing, who they communicate with. In<br />
other words, like a duck, you take a bill-full<br />
of them, churn them over and over <strong>to</strong> get<br />
the nugget or nuggets (not in a celebra<strong>to</strong>ry<br />
sense) in that bill-full. It’s a lot of intelligent,<br />
painstaking work. But, who has the time and<br />
the intelligence? They are in short supply<br />
Now, we come <strong>to</strong> the discuss what intelligent<br />
agencies all over the developed world do <strong>to</strong><br />
pick up nuggets of information and piece<br />
them <strong>to</strong>gether <strong>to</strong> stay ahead of evil designs<br />
of adversaries. It’s called data mining. The US<br />
National Security Agency can intercept,<br />
moni<strong>to</strong>r and survey all outgoing and<br />
incoming communications from and <strong>to</strong> the<br />
country. It basically boils down <strong>to</strong> looking at<br />
the patterns of ‘1’s and ‘0’s in all<br />
communications, and interpret them for<br />
immediate action.<br />
I will end this lazy form of stupidity of mine<br />
by citing another example of knowing small<br />
tiny bits of things. NASA has sent a probe<br />
named Phoenix in<strong>to</strong> Mars. It <strong>to</strong>ok 10 months<br />
of travel at 12,000 miles an hour since the<br />
launch, traveled 422 million miles, and the<br />
cost of the project was 420 million dollars.<br />
The Phoenix probe decelerated in the last 7<br />
minutes before landing and made a pillow-<br />
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soft landing <strong>to</strong> protect all the vital gear.<br />
The mission was not <strong>to</strong> find out if there ever<br />
existed giant elephants, dinosaurs, large<br />
headed humans and other giant creatures<br />
on it. But, its mission is <strong>to</strong> dig in<strong>to</strong> the soil,<br />
about 12 - 20 inches deep, <strong>to</strong> find if there<br />
exists water or ever existed water in that<br />
barren red planet. Water could’ve hosted<br />
primitive but fundamental forms of life -<br />
microorganisms, the amino acids, etc. There<br />
are fine instruments on board. The data will<br />
be transmitted <strong>to</strong> earth stations for detailed<br />
analysis by scientists.<br />
‘What crazy ideas, what a waste of time,<br />
talent and money’, you might think aloud.<br />
Scientists survive on borderline craziness<br />
until one day they die leaving fruits of their<br />
labor and craziness for us <strong>to</strong> enjoy. Science<br />
marches boldly on. Religions tentatively<br />
follow way behind<br />
espousing irrelevant,<br />
rejected ideas from the<br />
past - long ways past...<br />
Kalyan Dutta-Choudhury<br />
Berkeley