Remembering Senehi Begum
BY BHASKAR PHUKAN The passing away of Senehi Begum – better known as Senehi Baideo to her legion of students
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Author: Bhaskar Phukan
Sehri songs woke me in the Ramzan mornings: Bhaskar Phukan
BHASKAR PHUKAN As a child, my first impression of the month of Ramzan was of getting awakened every day before
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Without Countdown
WITHOUT COUNTDOWN (to APJ Abdul Kalam) By Bhaskar Phukan Death chose you
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More than departure of a friend
BY BHASKAR PHUKAN Perhaps the only time Aichute Bora didn’t do it right is to depart so suddenly. Fifty
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A migratory bird
By BHASKAR PHUKAN Before joining the Assam Civil Service, I had worked for a while in the Public Relations
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My first inquest
BY BHASKAR PHUKAN Of the many responsibilities of an officer in the Assam Civil Services, nothing is as challenging
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Strange faith
One lesson that I have learned from all these years of working as a civil servant in the field is that beneath the quiet and humdrum flow of life in our society thrives a subculture of irrational beliefs and superstitions. Often, at the slightest provocation, it comes to surface, making otherwise normal people behave like medieval inquisitors or credulous fools.
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Assam Secretariat complex
Only when one works in the Secretariat, does one realize the full worth of working in
the ACS, says a legend
The Day Krishna Was Shot
The emergence of terrorism in Assam from the last two decades of the 20th century marked a watershed in the state’s contemporary history.
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The Phal Phul Conundrum
BHASKAR PHUKAN describes the delightful ‘phal-phul’ tradition in Indian bureaucracy
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