10. The Northeast Day

Event: 15th Northeast Book Fair, 2013
Theme: The Northeast Day
Date: 2nd January, 2014
Venue: The Assam Engineering Institute Field, Chandmari, Guwahati
Organised in association with Northeast Writers' Forum

The Northeast of India is magical. It's one of the most exotic regions of the world and with some of the most beautiful minded people. So what reason should there be that one wouldn't wish to return to this region time and again, even though their work takes them places?

So, the Northeast Day had quite a presence with the glitterati and the who's who from most of the states of Northeast India, some of them who had flown in especially for the event. The passion with which each one of them spoke, recited poems, sang songs, related incidents of how and why they love the Northeast so much was quite an exhilarating feeling and an all time high. 

Rahul Jain did an excellent job of holding the audience and the panelists together in rapt attention with his question and answer round and literally getting people to talk about their one passion: Living in the Northeast of India.

Kamal Nath, the choreographer from Assam speaking about his love for dance and how he made it in Mumbai

Rajeev Bhattacharya, writer and senior journalist who interviewed Paresh Barua

Right: Manish Deka and Tarun Saikia, the two Assamese to scale the Mt. Everest

Extreme left: Anjali Joshi, award winning writer from London on a tour of the Northeast

The designer of the rupee symbol, D. Udaya Kumar

Swapnil Bharali, travel writer from Guwahati

Jayanta Pathak, the King of Remix, who is a big name in Mumbai

Dr. Srutimala Duwarah, writer

Left: Tapan Bhattacharya, renowned music director in Mumbai from Assam 

Extreme right: Desmond Kharmouphlang, renowned poet from Meghalaya

So Mom, now you know why I never really wanted to go out of this region, for whatever exciting reason you gave me and thought I would be enamoured by it. I am so proud of my friends, each one of them who have dared to put NE in the world map. Proud to be a Northeast Indian! Way to go people!