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 ...
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 ...
As a language, Assamese has a long, deep-rooted and cherished history. But there have been times in the past when questions have been raised about its unique identity and comparisons being made to ...
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, ...
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 ...
On the first day of Assamese new year, the Assamese language has been made mandatory for all official work in Assam, according to an official notification issued in this regard on Monday. It will come ...
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 ...
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 ...
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