Cultural interaction with an Assamese guy - Really liked it very much to know about Assamese culture! Following would brief this!
I have traveled in trains earlier and this 2011 Diwali trip to my home town was not the first one!!!
However, this was my first looonnnggg journey almost 26 hours! Last time when I traveled, close to 19 hours (it was "Chennai Express train" unlike "Mumbai Mail" this time!)
I had almost slept for first few hours and after which I could not do so. I had already prepared to travel in train for long journey along with a book named "Krishna : The man and his philosophy" penned by Osho, followed by my regular weekly magazine "The Sunday Indian". I had couple of movies on my lappy as well. This looks like my preparation was good for long journey to spend my journey time!!!
However, the actual was something different. The charging port next to my berth did not work and I had no other option other than switching off my lappy and spend my whole time on the book only.
I had finished magazine and half way through the book. Since the cabin light was switched off, I could not continue much on reading. I could not sleep as well due to the suffocation inside the compartment (AC was intermittently working in the compartment. Having repeatedly complaining to the coach attender, nothing worked out - Need to know how to file a complaint for AC not working in the compartment)
There were two families: a kid (named Shawn) hardly 1 and half years and his parents (they are from Kolkata, settled in Pune going to Chennai to visit their relative house) , a girl (named Monita) probably 4 ~ 5 years and her parents (they are from Tamil Nadu, settled in Pune and goind to Tamil Nadu for vacation) and couple of working guys going for vacation to their home town... Arun, I forgot the other guy name (So bad about my memory!)
There was another guy whose native was Assam, studied in Pune, worked in Gujarat for couple of years and then going to Chennai and Kerala for family trip. He was the guy whom I spent couple of hours knowing about new things!!!
Bihu - Famous festival in Assam: Festival celebrated in Assam which is similar to Pongal in Tamil Nadu... He was explaining that this festival will be celebrated 4 times a year and all people irrespective of cast and religion celebrate it!!!
Language: He mentioned that Assamese is similar to Bengali. Few interesting facts he mentioned. Assamese does not have gender form unlike hindi... "Main aatha hun" (I am coming for masculine), "Main aathi hun" (I am coming for feminine). They follow universal gender... "Main aatha hun" for both masculine and feminine. This is similar to Bengali..
He also mentioned that almost for everything people use only "Eat" for "drink", "take", "Sip", "Smoke"... For example, instead of "Drink milk", they use "Eat milk"... Instead of "Smoke Cigarette", they use "Eat Cigarette".... This was quite interesting!
Then we talked about dressings of Assamese people, food habits etc etc... He was interesting guy to explain about their culture and he was quite patient answering most of my questions.... He was also listening to my own tamil culture!!!!
There was also another discussion with Punjab guy earlier (not in train)... I would blog it next time!!!!
I have traveled in trains earlier and this 2011 Diwali trip to my home town was not the first one!!!
However, this was my first looonnnggg journey almost 26 hours! Last time when I traveled, close to 19 hours (it was "Chennai Express train" unlike "Mumbai Mail" this time!)
I had almost slept for first few hours and after which I could not do so. I had already prepared to travel in train for long journey along with a book named "Krishna : The man and his philosophy" penned by Osho, followed by my regular weekly magazine "The Sunday Indian". I had couple of movies on my lappy as well. This looks like my preparation was good for long journey to spend my journey time!!!
However, the actual was something different. The charging port next to my berth did not work and I had no other option other than switching off my lappy and spend my whole time on the book only.
I had finished magazine and half way through the book. Since the cabin light was switched off, I could not continue much on reading. I could not sleep as well due to the suffocation inside the compartment (AC was intermittently working in the compartment. Having repeatedly complaining to the coach attender, nothing worked out - Need to know how to file a complaint for AC not working in the compartment)
There were two families: a kid (named Shawn) hardly 1 and half years and his parents (they are from Kolkata, settled in Pune going to Chennai to visit their relative house) , a girl (named Monita) probably 4 ~ 5 years and her parents (they are from Tamil Nadu, settled in Pune and goind to Tamil Nadu for vacation) and couple of working guys going for vacation to their home town... Arun, I forgot the other guy name (So bad about my memory!)
There was another guy whose native was Assam, studied in Pune, worked in Gujarat for couple of years and then going to Chennai and Kerala for family trip. He was the guy whom I spent couple of hours knowing about new things!!!
Bihu - Famous festival in Assam: Festival celebrated in Assam which is similar to Pongal in Tamil Nadu... He was explaining that this festival will be celebrated 4 times a year and all people irrespective of cast and religion celebrate it!!!
Language: He mentioned that Assamese is similar to Bengali. Few interesting facts he mentioned. Assamese does not have gender form unlike hindi... "Main aatha hun" (I am coming for masculine), "Main aathi hun" (I am coming for feminine). They follow universal gender... "Main aatha hun" for both masculine and feminine. This is similar to Bengali..
He also mentioned that almost for everything people use only "Eat" for "drink", "take", "Sip", "Smoke"... For example, instead of "Drink milk", they use "Eat milk"... Instead of "Smoke Cigarette", they use "Eat Cigarette".... This was quite interesting!
Then we talked about dressings of Assamese people, food habits etc etc... He was interesting guy to explain about their culture and he was quite patient answering most of my questions.... He was also listening to my own tamil culture!!!!
There was also another discussion with Punjab guy earlier (not in train)... I would blog it next time!!!!
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