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Rongali Bihu: The Most Popular Spring Festival of Assam People in Assam celebrate spring festival in mid-April. It is the biggest festival known as Rongali Bihu or Bohag Bihu. Children enjoying dancing Bihu in Rongali Bihu festival in Majuli, Assam. Image courtesy: Wikipedia. When spring arrives, it makes everything anew—the weather becomes warmer, trees grow new leaves and flowers appear, animals wake up from hibernation, and birds migrate to warmer regions—in Shakespeare's language: When proud-pied April, dress’d in all his trim, / Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing. Spring is celebrated in many cultures with festivals. Some of these festival...

Indian-American Homicide Offender: Prosenjit Poddar By Mithu Das   April 08, 2017 Recently, the arrest of an Indian-American teenager, Arnav Uppalapati, 17, who has been accused of killing his biological mother a year ago has shocked the Indian community in America. Town of Carry Police, North Carolina, have been investigating the unsolved murder since 2015. Unfortunately, this is not the first time a murder has been committed by an Indian- American. In 2016, at least two cases of murder-suicide and one case of shooting have been reported. Similarly, one murder case was record...