GUWAHATI: In a major boost to Assamese literature in 2024, Asam Sahitya Sabha (ASS) is set to come up with a literary and cultural museum at Jorhat in Upper Assam that will showcase a replica of the ...

Alleging financial anomaly in Tezpur University, its teachers' association on Wednesday claimed that the varsity management has not purchased a single Assamese book during the last two financial years ...

Guwahati, A special mobile application will soon enable the digitisation of manuscripts or books in Assamese language by their owners and link them to one of the largest digital repositories of ...

Communities are people. They are not abstractions. They are not rhetoric. They are human beings,” begins the first chapter of The Assamese: A Portrait of a Community. And, what could be more apt?

It is noteworthy that over the past five years, through a community project, ‘Digitizing Assam’ has already digitized 2.76 million pages of Assamese literature and journals. These digitized pages are ...

In his famous essay, “Three Hundred Ramayanas,” (1987) AK Ramanujan ascertains the plurality of the Rama katha. While Valmiki, the sovereignty of the “original” Sanskrit text, created in Rama the ...

As Assam hurtles from the National Register of Citizens to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and an ongoing Supreme Court hearing on provisions facilitating the 1985 Accord, author and journalist ...

Thirteen years ago, Sarmistha Pritam wrote a book about a young woman named Paridhi, who waged a life-long battle for identity in a village in Assam where extreme poverty, caste-based discrimination, ...