[Assam] Roi Na Xorkei?

[uttam borthakur]

I am in illustrious company. All my nieces, nephews (mostly wards of my friends) and a sister (an uncle's daughter) doing their parents proud by shining in the exams and in life.
But my spouse has no such thing to brag about.
Her sole aunt from her father's side is her age. Her grand father remarried after his first wife's death. That is why.
So, this Pehi has a daughter, who had appeared in Class X exams under SEBA in Assamese medium. At study time, she would like to cook, sew, and do the household chores.
When we ask Pehi as to how my young sister-in-law was doing, she used to say: "Roi na Xorkei!"
The day the results were announced, that is Friday, there was no call from Pehi, and my wife was wondering how her young sister had fared. When the waiting became intolerable, she called her aunt to know about her daughter's results.
"Pehi, ko?", it was obvious what she left to hang in the air.
"Xorkil", the reply was also to the point.
"Mane?"
" Third Division"
"Xorkil je, hobo de"
My group, which is generally used to exemplary results, would find it baffling that my aunt-in-law was jubilant about her daughter's 'cattle class' results.
She confided that there were thirty students from the school. Six of them got star marks, in all sixteen got First Division, Twelve passed in Second Division, and her daughter and another girl passed in the Third Division to make it 100 % for the school.
She was happy that her daughter did not tarnish the image of the school by turning out to be  the black sheep, and making the score less than 100% for the School! 
 
It would have been a slur on the family image, she said, heaving a sigh of relief.
 
Uttam Kumar Borthakur