Editorial
Posted by Editor in Editorial, Issue 3, Issues, Vol. I on 01. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
Dear Readers, Welcome back to yet another issue of FriedEye. February brings to all of us a new season, a new dimension. In keeping with the mood of the season. meet AxomiMatters, an organization which has taken on itself the onus of creating a new educated and informed Assam. The sleepy sun has finally consented [...]
In ‘Scotland of the East’
Posted by Ajatashatru in Issue 3, Issues, Sections, SeeNEw, Vol. I on 01. Feb, 2010 | 6 Comments
There are only a few things over which Neelam and I agree without fighting. After our Agartala trip, I had the impression that she would not question my judgement in matters of travel at least. I was wrong! When I first proposed Shillong as our next destination, she summarily rejected it. Her reason: Shillong is [...]
Black Magic Woman
Posted by Miss Cellany in Issue 3, Issues, Miss Cellany, Sections, Vol. I on 01. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
With a song on my lips and spring in my steps I set out for my workplace this morning. Everything looked fresh and clean. I was waiting at a traffic intersection for the chartered bus when I witnessed an incident which… I am not sure if i have an adjective to describe it yet. So [...]
Wise Bachelor
Posted by Wise Bachelor in Issue 3, Issues, Sections, Vol. I, Wise Bachelor on 01. Feb, 2010 | 1 Comment
Q. Meri girlfriend mujhe maarti hai. I love her, but when she hits, she hits really hard. I don’t retaliate because I don’t hit women. Please help me tell her not to test my endurance power. Pitahuwa Premi, Shillong. Ans: Dear Lord! Who is this woman? I have a friend who is in a relationship [...]
The media is free to record our lives: Amitabh Bachchan
Posted by Shishir Gautam in Issue 3, Issues, Movie Desk, Sections, Vol. I on 01. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
The actor, who was voted the ‘Star of the Millennium’ talks about his relationship with the media and how it has gone from being bad to good at times in his 40-year old career. The excitement to know what is happening in someone else’s life is almost an integral part of most human minds. The [...]
ESCAPE
Posted by Aien in Creative Writing, Issue 3, Issues, Poetry, Sections, Vol. I on 01. Feb, 2010 | 1 Comment
Alice in wonderland wandered down into an upside-down world. What to do to escape from reality?
In Memory’s Lap
Posted by Pratibha in Creative Writing, Issue 3, Issues, Poetry, Sections, Vol. I on 01. Feb, 2010 | 4 Comments
Ideas storm my tiny brain you won’t rest, will you ? another nudge to the cells eye should not miss the scene a twitch in the heightened sense no whisper even must miss the ear.
Fashion Fads !
Posted by Fried Guest in Fried Guest, Issue 3, Issues, Sections, Vol. I on 01. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
“Fashion”… a vague word with tremendous significance for the stylish folk world over. The trend of following fashion fads, I believe, cannot be traced back accurately in time. But it cannot be denied that fashion does rule the young and not so young alike. Everyone wants to, or at least secretly desires to, look pretty [...]
On the murder of a classic
Posted by Rhiddhis Chakravorty in Issue 3, Issues, Random Take, Sections, Vol. I on 01. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
What happens when an original masterpiece is redesigned and repackaged as something that only faintly reminds you of its past glory? How about a redesigned Taj Mahal with a banquet hall look? I don’t know about others but I am one stubborn man who would refuse to accept it. Do you know the reason for [...]
The Selfish Giant
Posted by Child Guest in Children's Section, Issue 3, Issues, Sections, Vol. I on 01. Feb, 2010 | 1 Comment
By Oscar Wilde Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the Giant’s garden. It was a large lovely garden, with soft green grass. Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach-trees that in the spring-time broke out into [...]
Chef’s Pick: Axomimatters
Posted by Pramathesh Borkotoky in Chef's Pick, Issue 3, Issues, Sections, Vol. I on 01. Feb, 2010 | 4 Comments
On January 1, 2010 a new website was released. Prime audience targeted: the youth of Assam. No, we are not talking of FriedEye here though the date of launch coincides. The website under discussion is the enigmatically titled http://www.axomimatters.com/. So what is this website all about? The FriedEye team recently got in touch with Mr. [...]
Bhaona: An experience
Posted by Pramathesh Borkotoky in Cover Story, Issue 3, Issues, Sections, Through the Lens, Type 1, Vol. I on 01. Feb, 2010 | 1 Comment
The Vaishnavite Bhauna tradition of Assam has evolved and adapted since its beginnings during the fifteenth century. One of the most written upon folk forms of Assamese culture today, the Bhauna (from the Sanskrit Bhavana meaning “display of/production”) risks being categorised as a homogeneous blanket form, However the differences in the presentation and performance of [...]
Sorry Mom!
Posted by Mani Padma in 55 Fiction, Creative Writing, Issue 3, Issues, Sections, Vol. I on 01. Feb, 2010 | 6 Comments
Mom had asked me to return soon but it was dark now. She always does. There was a killer on the prowl. I gulped and walked on. Just in the alley there was a strange policeman waiting. He beckoned at me smiling crookedly…all happened quickly. Slash! Slightly messy .I Have to dispose the razor today.
