Teacher | Entrepreneur | Alumna 👩🎓 DPS Noida, Miranda House Delhi, Central Saint Martins London, London College of Fashion, FIDM Los Angeles | Assamese 🇮🇳
My newly built classroom. The desk-bench sets, chair and blackboard are all home
#DIY
#Carpentry
projects. Cannot express how deeply satisfied i am, in my soul! The floor is plain for now, but i am going to paint it later. Will share as i proceed on this thread ☺️
#School
#Home
#Jorhat
#Assam
If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.
The Wizard of Oz
Assamese Hindus wear white in their weddings. Assamese Hindus are Indians.
Assamese Hindus wear white for their mourning.
Assamese Hindus do not wear the Mangalsutra or Kaleera.
My limited point being, Indians are diverse, colours have varied connotations as per local culture.
See what’s growing 😍 Sweet sour Letekus.
Assamese - লেতেকু
English - Burmese Grapes Botanical - Baccaurea motleyana
This is my 3 year old plant which is from my Aita’s old Leteku tree.
This
#AssameseFruit
turns yellow when ripe, and my Aita’s old tree looks like the 3rd pic :)
My fav photograph of Deuta.
Alzheimer’s took him 6yrs back on this day. But this is how I remember him always 💕
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
I am him.
My brilliant handsome Deuta♥️
In support of the student protests against coal mining in Assam's
#DehingPatkai
Elephant Reserve
I would like to point out a few things for your consideration.
1) Soumyadeep Datta is a member of the steering committee of Central government on Project Elephant. He made a video
Meet my neighbours. Khudmai and Boloram. A very harmonious couple. Am pretty fond of them. Ma sends them lots of grass and vegetables from time to time. Although they are gracefully docile, i respect their power n keep my distance. Magnificent ❤️
#WaterBuffalo
#Assam
Absolutely heartbreaking to know about the devastation by floods in Assam.All affected, humans or animals,deserve support in this hour of crisis.I’d like to donate 1cr each to the CM Relief Fund & for Kaziranga Park rescue.Appealing to all to contribute
@CMOfficeAssam
@kaziranga_
Friends in
#Guwahati
! We need a strong indigenous
#Assamese
team to troubleshoot erroneous news about
#Assam
and Assamese causes on Social Media. The core team needs to be located in Ghy. Also this is strictly a Non Political effort whose ONLY agenda is Assam, please DM.
#Jorhat
This is Narendra. Father of one of my Class3 kid. Came today morning with 3 Rohu fish for me. He was busy cleaning them up by the time i came downstairs. I know that he like many other parents in my school are facing a cash crunch. We haven’t been taking fees since March.
Just can’t get over this beautiful village in
#Golaghat
#Assam
. Stomping around the fields and wild marshes in Sador Mekhela and boots, today was such a happy day. Gonna miss Assam so bad !
P.S. Check out the pretty haystacks in the distance. Bucolic paradise ❤️
#duckface
😁
Naphai reserve forest in the heart of Dehing Patkai Elephant Reserve where illegal coal mining is carried out, has denuded a vast stretch of greenery. This has been happening in connivance with various government authorities.
#SaveDehingPatkai
#Assam
I went to
#MalowPothar
today to see one of my sponsored child, Akash, whose dream is to own a General Goods store someday. He is in Class 7 now, and been bugging me about a vegetable stall for summer:) This is his village lotus field in
#Jorhat
#RuralAssam
❤️ Blessed to live here
As a teacher and education entrepreneur, i will not allow hijab or burkhas in my school. I will not allow Saffron Scarves, Red tikka either. Like I don’t allow Nail polish, lipstick, tattoo, henna, skull caps, jewellery, knuckle dusters, open hair or non standard uniform.
Dear
#Assamese
Raiz, i am initiating a project with my students, where we will try to capture signature Assamese traits. For eg: godhuli saki joluwa, carrom khela, haatere bhaat khuwa, etc. I need photographs of your daily lives. Please help with pics or suggestions. TIA 🤗
My 8 yr old niece just won her first trophy in a Chess competition 💪 I am beyond excited as chess is a family sport with us, and we learn very early ! Her first scholastic competition n a US Chess Federation (USCF) recognised Greater Cleveland Scholastic Chess League 🤩💃🏼
Deep in the Assamese countryside, the প্ৰসাদ prasad served on Tithis is distributed among entire villages. Thats lots of ppl. They have no access to nor buy modern fruits like apple, pear, grapes to decorate the prasad. Instead, this is what u get. Coconut, Mogu(moong) n Mithoi.
In
#Assamese
villages, there is no concept of buying gifts to gift someone ! It’s either grown, woven or hand made, like this pot of home made curd from a parent.
থমা দৈ ! পানী নথকা দৈক থমা দৈ কয় ৷ দৈ ঘটতো ওলমাইছে বাঁহৰ শিকিয়াত, সোপা দিছে কলপাতেৰে :)
#Bihu
#AssamRural
I will be very surprised if any of my kids ever make it to the HSLC merit list. You really need to be very focussed on the text books to make it. My kids are encouraged to go down any rabbit hole they wish. Natural curiosity over textbooks. Happy 2 share, nobody ever fails 💪😁
Cooking with ingredients from one’s backyard is such a joy ! Ma made Rou maas with bilahi tenga for lunch. So I volunteered to make a baked fish for a healthy dinner.
Prep : Tomato, Onion, Lemon, Garlic, Ginger, Thai Coriander (Maan Dhoniya), Chilli, Fresh Bay Leaf (Tejpat)
It’s
#Pomelo
season in Assam! The hallmark of an Assamese winter is Robab Tenga(Pomelo), Sokola Tenga(Key Lime) and all kinds of Sour fruits, mashed with raw Mustard oil, Coriander, Chilli n salt, eaten in the sunshine, while you doze off intermittently (dhelpunga diya) 😜
Yesterday, took my Maths camp merit kids and their teacher to the riverside and subsequent lunch at
#FatBelly
#Jorhat
, as a reward for 100% attendance and Homework submission.
In the long run, marks do not matter, but consistency, perseverance and hard work will always succeed!
When life gives you lemons ... 🍋🍋🍋 it makes an
#Assamese
very happy 😁
Elaichi Nemu, Kazi Nemu and Green Mangoes 🥭 from the stormswept morning.
#NemuTenga
is bae ❤️
Good Morning Raiz, good to be back on Twitter. Attending a Village Hojagota Hobha this beautiful morning in
#Jorhat
#Assam
! The resistance to the
#CitizenshipAmmendmentAct
is on through peaceful Satyagraha. With
#AASU
plus citizen/community groups,
#AssamRejectsCAA
জয় আই অসম ✊
Snapshots from home. My cousin and Ma. I think my generation is saved because i have an awesome cousin who dedicatedly learns the ways of my ancestors. All of us in the family already rely on her for advice regarding rituals. That one lynchpin that roots a family ❤️
#Assamese
My farm workers are having Ma’s birthday lunch today since we don’t cook meat on Lokhi Puja :)
Menu is our traditional
#Assamese
dish of Duck 🦆 curry with Ash Gourd (হাহঁ মাংস কোমোৰা) and Smoked Pork with Bamboo Shoot fry.
Some food can make ppl sooooo happy 😆
Between all these tweeting about Dehing Patkai, my Dada yells from his room “O Dihing Patkai, lusi holne nai ?” 😆 No respect in this fam !
Promised to treat him to lusi bhaji bor today for breakfast because he went to the market for me yesterday 😄
The rain harvest today 🥬🍅🌶
Trust iPhone to flash you memories from exactly a decade back. Where has all the time gone ! What does it mean anyway to be old enough? Do i know any better than before?
“The hurrier i go, the behinder i get.”
I keep on seeing this 2pictures in my mind. Why did they allow this oilfield in this location in the first place? Why was the operation outsourced? The Petroleum Min has announced 30k per family. What is the value of a lovingly tended Assamese bari? Ecosytem?
#Baghjan
#AssamFire
Pleasures of an Assamese winter ❤️
Doing nothing but listening to music, savouring ripe olives, with a stinging bite of wild chilli, while lunch cooks slowly and its fragrance meanders over with the woodsmoke wrapping me in sunny dreams ! Pure bliss 😇
Nothing has nurtured my soul more than growing my own vegetables. One of the most unexpected blessings of this Covid pandemic, has been the slowing down in life, recalibrating the pared down essentials in my mental growth list. Happiness is harvesting from my backyard ❤️
😍 This is my favourite
#BihuBoliya
pic till now ! I don’t know who the judges will select, but am increasing the prize money for this gorgeous
#Aita
❤️😘😘😘😘😘💐Just look at her 😍😍😍😍😍
It’s goomdhan season Raiz! Plucked the first corn cobs today. These babies are very tender n milky right now. So am going to slash them with butter n Kazi Nemu, put sections of them in foil and bake them in the oven for around 30mins at 200 degree C. Serve them with chaat masala.
I am simmering with anger. Seeing many non indigenous handles writing in the Assamese language, but against Assamese interests. How did it come to this ? That a non indigenous staying in Assam, has the audacity to attack any Assamese on SM ? Is it because of official patronage ?
A very happy
#Uruka
to all
#Assamese
raiz on Twitter. Although we cannot step out on
#Bihu
due to
#Lockdown
we can certainly exchange our morom n seneh. Hope to see lots of beautiful pics, songs n piriti here, today on Uruka, tomorrow
#GoruBihu
n onwards!
#HappyBihu
#Assam
❤️
Agriculture seems to be the buzzword of the new schemes. Why did it take a virus to make the govt think about these reforms ?
My greatest fear though is non Assamese buying up Assamese land for agriculture. WE NEED LAND PROTECTION ASAP dear Raiz. The sharks are circling
#Assam
Current favourite hobby : Making bilingual Digital Material for my Assamese medium students.
Because you don’t get good
#Assamese
educational content on Google 💁♀️ Wish i could share this with Govt agencies for dissemination. Tagging relevant ppl of
#AssameseTwitter
doesn’t help.
My mother plants her tomatoes 🍅 underneath our Kordoi / Starfruit / কৰ্দৈ and Rohdoi / Sweet Starfruit / ৰহদৈ trees. The regular leaf droppings and fruit decomposing naturally into the soil provides the best nutrients to the tomato plants.
This is today’s harvest.
It’s Ma’s birthday, and when Dada is in town, the day begins at the riverside ❤️
ঢৌ তুলি নাচিলে বুকু
দেখি কাৰ হৰিনী চকু ?
নকওঁ নকওঁ মই কাকো
কোৱা মানা ?
জানো জানা 💓
#NimatiGhat
#Jorhat
#Assam
#October2020
আঁহতৰ পাততে লাগিছে সুৰ
বতাহ বলিছে
জুঁৰ জুঁৰ জুঁৰ ৷
সুৰৰ ধ্বনি শুনি
কলিজাত কপনি
ৰঙত ঘনে ঘনে লাগে ৷
কোনোবা কাহানিত
লৰালিৰ কাহিনী
মনত মনে মনে
জাগে গৰখীয়া
কি সুৰ বজালি
কি সুৰ বজালি দুপৰীয়া ।
#MyRoots
Wherever i have wandered in life, this is the one place that centres me 🌳
A number of conservationists were unanimous in their opinion that much harm had already been caused to the elephant reserve by rampant coal mining, and only a ban on mining can help restore things.
#SaveDehingPatkai
The cold blooded killing of the 5
#AssameseMartyrs
in December 2019 is an attack on all
#Assamese
people.
The CAA is an attack on all Assamese people.
The
#ArnabGoswami
attack is an attack on one single Assamese individual.
All 3 are condemnable.
#VoiceOfAxom
is not Assamese 🙏
My dear Assamese bhaiti bhontis, i hate to point out BUT Priyanka Chopra finished her ambassador ship in Dec 2018 only. It was for 2 years. So stop harassing the poor woman. At least she tweeted. Unlike the one u should actually harass ! That gamusa dhari soku Mudi thoka jon. 🙏
It’s hard to believe that the
#WaterHyacinth
came here in the 18th century with Lady Hastings.
For many, it is a weed, but for my plant wizard Ma, it is one of the best free fertilisers from nature.
#Perspective
#BackyardAugust
Today is the last day of the month of Aahar n the
#Assamese
traditionally feast on Fish. Xaun (Sawan) starts tomorrow n the rural folks abstain from catching fish during its breeding season.
Today’s lunch : Bahu fish (Bhokua/Catla) plain fry and with fresh Bamboo Shoot. 🐟 ❤️
While the State govt continues to be on the denial mode about illegal coal mining in
#DehingPatkaiElephantReserve
, disturbing evidence is mounting that large-scale illegal mining is devastating the prime elephant habitat with tacit support of the authorities.
#SaveDehingPatkai
Exactly a decade back at
#Stonehenge
#Wiltshire
#England
In uni, weight 48kg, dress size UK8, surviving on Salad, Sushi n Popcorn coz fash school interns get free sample size clothes only in UK8 😜 Right after this pic was taken, collapsed due to malnourishment n fatigue haha😂
I just made the best momos of my life. I mean my extremely fastidious brother who never “hogs” ate till he couldn’t move. That good 😂
#PaneerMomo
with green chilli sauce.
#ProudOfMyself
👩🍳