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 ...

Jorhat, July 18: The reprint of Rev. Nathan Brown’s Grammatical Notices of the Assamese Language (1848), released on July 9, has revealed the multiple “surgeries” and distortions the simpler original ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said people who seek to replace Assamese with Bengali in the electoral rolls would help the government get an idea about the number of “foreigners” in the ...

Assam Minister Bimal Borah on May 25, said two iconic Assamese children's magazines, Mouchak and Notun Aabiskar, have been ...

Forcibly imposing Assamese as sole official language in undivided Assam was a historic blunder, which triggered a sense of separation and resulted in the creation of multiple states in Northeast, ...

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 ...

Guwahati: A minority student leader in Assam stirred a hornet’s nest with remarks that Bengal-origin Muslims would list Bengali, and not Assamese, as their mother tongue in public documents. Chief ...

Presented at the Northeast India Regional Pastoral Conference currently underway in Guwahati, the Assamese Missal is the brainchild of Bishop Albert Hermon of Dibrugarh. Assamese is the mother tongue ...