K. Kar’s scientific contributions

... Bamboo juvenile shoots of some species are used for making 'Karisa' (a delicieous pikle) by the Assamese people (Tripathi, 1998;Tripathi, 2008c), leaves are used as fodder to animals, and certain medicine also traditionally prepared from bamboo shoots (Tripathi et al., 2009b). The most versatile use of bamoo is construction of houses in villages, boundary fencing, some local musical instruments (such as flute, takka, and gaganna), paper making, etc. Bamboo cottage industries are found in rural area as they produce numerous household items including utansils such as bamboo buskets of different sizes and shapes, bamboo fens, table, chair, bed, bamboo mate, fishing instrument such as polo, Juluki, Jokai, Khaloi, Karahi, pasi, Dola, kula, saloni, etc and agricultural appliences such as Moi, Nagal (plough), kathia tum, tomal, mer, Duli etc. (Tripathi et al., 2009a). The versatile use of bamboo resources of the island also described elsewhere in this report. ...

Reference:

Report on Biodiversity and Bioresources of Majuli Island