Kee Kabhor?" greeted the forest officer at Kaziranga National Park. For a moment I was completely shocked as to what shall I reply. " Sorry! Sorry!, I meant how are you?" said the forest officer. ' Oh! very fine, I am enjoying life and how do you do?" I replied. With in fractions of time, we became good friends and he invited me on a dinner party.

Oh! no, thanks, I have to file a report with in a period of three days. May be some other day" I said. " okay let it be on the fourth day" he said. As the time passed me and the forest officer became good friends. ( I am not giving the name of the forest office on personal request). The party was finalized on Wednesday evening and I was decked up to meet his family. .

As I entered his house, number of people greeted me. In between came an aged female who asked me " Tumar naam kee?, Tumi Kor para? " now these questions made me crazy, What the hell she is asking?. I thought. " Amma, sit down" said the officer. Then he told me that she was his mom and was asking my name and residence. Aha!, I thought

But then project is a project and this one, in fact , was quite fascinating as it was like a challenge for me. The first thing that I did was to find out about Assam. Lying in the North East terrain of India, Assam is considered the gateway into another world. Situated between 90-96 degree East Longitute and 24-28 degree North Latitude, Assam is bordered in the North and East by the Kingdom of Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh. Along the south lies Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram. Meghalaya lies to her South-West, Bengal and Bangladesh to her West.

Soon after half an hour conversation, we sat down to have our dinner. I was served with mouthwatering dishes like Masar Jhol, Kamrupi Birayani and Pineapple fry. There were few more and all made a wholesome meal for me.