GUWAHATI: Frayed yellow pages of rare Assamese books and journals, dating back to the 19th century, are getting a new lease of life with nearly three lakh pages digitised so far as part of a project ...

Assamese classic Ashimat Jar Heral Seema is set for a big-screen adaptation, with Simanta Phukan directing the ambitious film project.

Frayed yellow pages of rare Assamese books and journals, dating back to the 19th century, are getting a new lease of life with nearly three lakh pages digitised so far as part of a project initiated ...

In a landmark initiative for language preservation and digital access, the Nanda Talukdar Foundation has launched “Digitizing Assam 2.0,” making 2.76 million pages of Assamese literature and archival ...

HOUSTON, TX — Foundation of Indian Studies (FIS) reaches out to interview all language and ethnic groups of India for its Oral History project. It is estimated that there are about 50 immigrant ...

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 ...

Origins of the Tweedledum-Tweedledee relationship between Bengali and Assamese can be traced to the provincial administration in British India where educated Bengalis in droves were at the helm. The ...