Prem Joubonote: An Assamese movie in USA:ASSAM SHINES

Prem Joubonote- is a pure Assamese name and a romantic movie recently released in the USA by none other than the man behind adopting a baby Rhino "Pori"in Guwahati Zoo by Mr.Vavani Sarmah, an Assamese NRI and US citizen.He is again in the news.
The you tube link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvE12njgB5U
The CD and DVD is available for sale also.
On Sep 13th/2008, he wrote-
The Premier show of Assamese movie “Prem Joubonote” has been organized in Cinema 2 of Northwest Film Forum here in Seattle, Washington, USA today on Sept-13-2008. For the first time, the premier show of an Assamese movie is being organized in USA. Prem Joubonote is being produced by Vavani Sarmah, an Assamese NRI and directed by Loknath Deka of Assam assisted by Vavani Sarmah. The story, scripts and dialog of Prem Joubonote is by Mr Dharmakanta Rajbanshi of Goreswar, Kamprup, Assam. Vavani Sarmah, producer of Prem Joubonote stated in his opening speech that there may be few mistake as it is his first project and says that he is very encouraged and inspired from the support of the Greater Seattle Assamese Community and looking forward make more Indian movie in future. DVD/VCD of Prem Joubonote is available on sale at www.assam.org . Ms Earlene says that she is looking forward to see more Assamese movie in near future.

Rhino Jungle Adventures at Bangalore with more features

Rhino Jungle Adventures at Bangalore week end gateway/.Corporate adventures/family night /day outing comes with more attractive features now.
The adventure activity are:

##Day/Night jungle trekking
##Trek to Om Shanthi falls
##Trek via elephant visiting zone
##Elephant baby birth place (One must see)
##Night camp fire
##Star gazing from the hill top
##Coracle boating (Depending upon river conditions)
##Swimming in the river cauvery with life guard and protective gear (Depending upon river conditions)
##Ditch jump
##Tarzan jump
##Balancing act
##Trust fall
##Archery
##And Newly introduced: MOUNTAIN BIKING (just at an extra charges of Rs.100/- per hour). ##Rock climbing,Rappelling,Zoomering,River Crossing with HMI trained guides.(** package).

Accommodation In Bangalore camp, accommodation is nicely arranged in the following
##Deluxe villa: Fully Air-conditioned ultra modern facilities.
##Wooden house (Bungalow)
##Tents: 4 bed in each tent, well protected,furnished & covered for privacy, with attached bathroom and a toilet.
##3 Dormitory: each hall for 15 people in each.
##The cost inclusive of highly nutritious all vegetarian food, cool refreshing fruit juices to unwind you, adventure activities, linen etc. for a stay of 24 hours.
##NEITHER Non veg food NOR Alcoholic drinks are allowed at Bangalore camp.
##Children 12 yrs and below 50% on the resort charges ,(05 yrs and below Free).
##Day long camp full package at Rs. 2000/- per head. ( Click Menu ) Breakfast , Lunch and farewell dinner.
##SMOKING IS LIMITED TO CERTAIN PLACES ONLY.
##Aurvedic massage for Gents and Ladies at extra cost.
##THE ABOVE COMPLETE PACKAGE + activities AT Rs.3000.00 PER HEAD FOR GROUP OF 15 AND ABOVE (Excluding AC Villa) per 24 hours with complimentary breakfast on the way. Luxury deluxe non AC coach/Tempo traveller included in the package.
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Rhino Jungle Adventures- the real adventure to NE India

Rhino Jungle Adventures Karnataka and N E India provides you the best available informations on various attractive hidden tourist destinations in Karnataka of south India and seven sisters of north east India with geography,History,People,Culture etc.This web site gives you the exact informations updated in one place. hence it helps you to have the details of the region in close watch, to enjoy better. A unique web site with detailed informations to travel is designed to help you at the best to know the people and places.

## Destination Karnataka gives you the present tourist adventure camp near Bangalore.(There are more)
## Seven Sisters of the NE India gives you details of amazing History/pre history since Mahabharat periods
## While you click on the name oif seven sisters, you will get full details of the states.
## Honeymoon packages are tailor made on demand.This one is readymade.
## Destination NE, beyond cloud, main page click will give you details of the river cruise big vessel and the places,while sub heading Brahmaputra Cruise will give you different 08 itineraries.
## Destination NE beyond cloud in small vessel main page will give you 03 Assam Cruise adventure itineraries in fully AC vessel over mighty Brahmaputra.
## The vessel sailing dates are fixed one.Vessels are with latest facilities like bar etc. to have corporate conferences in AC hall.
## Destination NE beyond cloud main page is by road 09 attractive itineraries to the seven sisters with two sub headings of the same all season.
## An attractive never before photo album gives you the right visuals from the seven sisters as well as Karnataka, state wise to find the origin of the people/landscape & beautiful nature and events conducted.

## Mountain biking at Bangalore camp.

## Bangalore camp is all vegetarian one for healthy reasons.2 days in a month one must remain Vegetarian and non drinker.Body repairs its own. This gives another light to the human body.

Visit http://www.rjadventures.org/ for details.

A saint and the brutalities of mankind against innocent !!

A saint and the Brutalities of the mankind to the innocent !!

Vavani-With love for Pori, from Washington. Pori, a six-year-old female rhino at the Assam state zoo, on 19 Aug 2008, found an NRI from Assam, Mr.Vavani Sarmah,originally from Hazarikapara of Mangaldai, to take care of her for the next year. “I would have loved to adopt her for a lifetime but rules say it can be done only for a year,” Sarmah, an entrepreneur, said. Sarmah is a computer science graduate from Jorhat Engineering College. He left for the US in 1998 and started a software company, Clearwin Technologies, in 2005. Pori was born in the zoo on June 6, 2002. Her mother Baghekhaiti was from Kaziranga while father Vishnu belonged to the zoo. Sarmah, an avid animal lover who arrived here in the beginning of this month, met divisional forest officer Narayan Mahanta to know about the programmes at the zoo. “I was keen to do something for wildlife conservation and was interested in adopting an animal. When I found that the zoo had such a programme, I got the details and decided to adopt Pori,” he said. Expressing concern over thekilling of rhinos in Assam, Sarmah said people should be aware of the importance of the state animal. “Last year, the pictures of rhinos killed by poachers had shocked everybody,” he added. Sarmah, who was accompanied by his family, handed over a cheque for Rs 1 lakh to the zoo authorities for the upkeep of the rhino. The money would mainly cover the cost of Pori’s diet. Sarmah plans to develop a website on Pori so that people around the world know about her. He also plans to make a DVD on the state zoo. Dispur had approved the animal adoption programme at the zoo recently to get more people to adopt animals. In July, Parul Devi Das, the additional chief secretary adopted Dhundhun, the stump-tailed macaque, for a year. “I hope no rhino gets killed from next year,” Sarmah, who is also on the board of Friends of Assam and Seven Sisters (FASS), said. He hoped that all the 750 animals in the zoo find adopters and added that the FASS would try to get people to adopt these animals

The brutal killing of baby rhino's at Kaziranga national park sparked worldwide on the existance of these precious animal.We need to create awareness to save and protect them.

The north east India: 7 sisters of the world - Enchanting pre-history

North East India- "the seven sisters of the world" consists of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh (Earlier NEFA), Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram (Earlier Luchai Hills), Tripura and Meghalaya (Earlier Khasi and Jaintia Hills). Meghalaya, Arunachal, Mizoram was earlier districts of Assam making the state to big. The north of North East is China and Bhutan, East Myanmar ( Burma), so uth is Thailand and Bangladesh and in the west Bangladesh and West Bengal ( North Bengal). The mighty river Brahmaputra flows in the center as a life line of the north east India. One of the longest rivers in the world with high current. Also known as Mahabahu.

The region is full of natural beauties and just a heaven on the earth. It is rich in civilization, culture, heritage, peace and bravery, never seen anywhere in the ancient Indian history. The region falls in the hands of Indian rule since 1826 Yandabu ceasefire with the British. Till then it was famous all over for temples, ancient Astrology (Jyotish) etc.To go back to 4000-5000 BC, it is:-

The mythological name “Kamrup” and “Pragjyotishpur” (ancient star of shining astrology) termed in the great epic Mahabharat, pauranic, tantric (black magic) literatures, Kalika puran, Vishnu puran etc. At that time the border was Bay of Bengal in the south, Kartoya river of present Teesta, Koshy and Mahananda river in the west, The region was then divided into four parts named as Kampith (Kartoyariver to Sonkox river), Ratnapith (Sonkox to Rupahee), Ivarnapith (Rupahee to Bharalee) and Saumarpith (From Bharalee river to Dikang).These four region was the largest in terms of civilization then.

The name Kamrup came after the rebirth of the Indian cupid “Kamdev”, who was burnt to ashes by Lord Shiva. That was the time when Shiva’s first wife Sati’s one of the organ fell on Kamagiri- now known as “Kamakhya” (the Goddess of sexual desire).

The region was although ruled by the Asur or Danab’s, they was pretty good one. The first known king of Kamrup was Mahirang Danab, followed by his son’s- Hatakaxur, Sambaraxur and Ratnaxur. Another Kirat king ruled was Ghatakaxur- who was slained by intelligent “Narakaxur.” Narakaxur was born to Vishnu in His pig incarnation and brought up by then king of Videha-King Janak. Narakaxur was a good engineer, architect and intelligent king. He was good worshiper to Lord Shiva and Vishnu. Narakaxur only reconstructed Pragjyotishpur as capital (now Guwahati), made settlements of many Brahmins in Kamakhya temple for prayers. Narakaxur Hills at Guwahati still remind him here. Narakaxur later become more closer to another Axur king, named Ban at Sonitpur (Now Tezpur).He proposed Kamakhya to marry and as per proposal agreement, he did constructed a road, a water tank and the temple on the top of Nilachal hills over night. But fearing al this goddess betrayed him with false morning alarm.

Agitated and frustrated Narakaxur then prevented Vasishtha muni for offering prayers at Kamakhya temple. The muni cursed both of them as “No one who worships at the shrine should see the fulfillment of desire.” However Lord Shiva helped to reduce the curse by 300 years. In course of time Narakaxur was slained by Lord Krishna in the next carnation. Krishna had tough time to fight in Kamrup and later took 16,000 girls, 14,000 elephant and horses to Dwaraka ( Gujarat).Krishna crowned Bhagadatta- the elder son of Narakaxur as king of Kamrup. King Bhagadatta fought the battle of Kurukshetra with pride in favour of Kaurav sitting atop his gigantic elephant and large contingent of troops

Other interesting story of Lord Krishna and his grandson occupied more in the “Shri Madbhagawat”.Lord Krishna fell in love with Rukmini, beautiful daughter of king Bhismak at Kundilnagar (Now Sadiya). He traveled all the way from Dwaraka to Kundil nagar to kidnap her. Still a temple exists although the original Kundilnagar merged with mighty Brahmaputra. The then horse foot prints could still be seen over the stones of Ashwaklanta of north Guwahati.The term called as Rukmini haran.

Lord Krishna’s grandson Aniruddha too eyed Kamrup.This time beautiful Usha, the only daughter of axur king Ban at sonitpur. Aniruddha was captured and the battle was heavy one with highest bloodshed. Finally lord Krishna intervened and ban was defeated. The present Tezpur termed after the heavy bloodshed. Still ruins of Ban capital exists in Tezpur. Even present Tezpur court building was once Ban’s palace. Tezpur still carry the glory of Ban kingdom with lot many temples, hills around. It’s a lovely hilly city over the mighty Brahmaputra bank.

Bhaluka- the grandson of Kumbhanda, the then prime minister of king Ban made his capital at Bhalukpung at the foot of Aka hills. Bhalukpung still exist with then beauties.on the present Arunachal Assam border. Bhalukpung is a beautiful tourist spot.

Later years since 11 century, the great warriors of Koch king Maharaj Naranarayan, Chilarai, Kachari kings ruled north bank of Bramputra.while in the south bank it was the strong Ahoms lead by “Sukapha” (Ahom kingdom from 1200 AD till 1826 AD).The last Ahom king was Chandrakanta Singha. During ahom period, the Assam or kamrup was frequently attacked by the Mughals. The kings of Assam never had western type weapons; it was guerilla warfare, sword, and night fight and al commando type activities to counter attack. The details are amazing. The historic battle fought was the Saraighat battle lead by brave warrior General Lachit Borphukan in March 1671 at Guwahati over river Brahmaputra.Then ahom king was Chakradhwaj Singh. Ahoms defeated Mughals once for all with bravery and surprise.

Guru Tegbahadur walk all the way from Punjab to Kamrup to take saint hood from Srimanta Shankar dev. Shankardev was having the genious super power,whos saints are from all the religion. He was attracted by the specified Guru"s from all over India. He was noted for peace and harmony which still exists in the region.Still this region of India dont have any religious conflict- all are united.

The heroes of Assam are endless till the war of independence with British in 1947. The glory of north east India shines the history. During the last Indo China war of 1962- the people of north east showed the best patriotism and sacrifice