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Assam in grip of Saraswati puja festivity


With much pomp and gaiety of Saraswati puja grips Assam on Saturday.


Dressed in traditional Assamese attires, Schools and colleges girls are thronging the schools and colleges to offer puja to the goddess of learning. An undeclared beauty contest seems to have take place among the girls in Guwahati. Beauty parlours in the city are teeming with the girls from the premier colleges like Handique College, Cotton College and B Baruah College.


Several competition and cultural programems are being organised to mark the occasion.


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Rishi Baruah, Bangalore's picture

"An undeclared beauty contest seems to have take place among the girls in Guwahati."- I liked that sarcastic sentence. Thats the time to showcase oneself to surrounding environment even to God also.
Sanjit pangmi's picture

Aponakhakalak sai val lagse

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