It’s been almost two and a half years since I came for my graduation studies to Cotton College, which is one of the most prestigious institutions of Assam. The very first day of my college I noticed one thing — that the students in my college were not very keen at taking care of their age-old college property. The desks were scribbled over and broken, and nobody was bothered to even replace them. Things have been going the same the same way for ages and till date nobody has taken any initiative to do something about it. One thing which truly surprised me was when I saw a small shanty area...

Majority of the people in Guwahati prefer travelling by the city bus because it is cheap, though not very safe. The local city bus charges only three-four rupees from passengers. Travelling by an auto on a regular basis becomes an expensive affair for the middle classes, or even anyone else. If ever by chance you happen to travel by a local city bus make sure that you get hold of a proper seat because the drivers are very rough as far as driving is concerned. There is a probability of you falling down inside the bus itself if you are as unlucky like me. You may even land up breaking your bones...

I was in dire need. Hence, I was furiously flipping through the pages of the Guwahati Yellow Pages (2009) and the Northeast Yellow Pages (2009) a few days back in order to get hold of a phone number of the Tarun Ram Phookan Indoor Stadium. There were around four to five numbers. Or, so I found. I tried dialing up all the numbers which were clearly printed in the yellow pages but unfortunately none of them actually worked. Either the numbers did not exist in the first place. Or no one answered. Either way, it did not help matters for me. Next, I tried taking recourse to the Dial-In service...