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 we celebrate Silpi Divas on 17 January, in honour of his passing, let us remember Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, a staunch ...

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 ...

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 ...

Guwahati: Assam govt on Sunday kicked off a week-long celebration of Assam’s rich linguistic heritage and Assamese bagging a classical language — Bhasha Gaurav Saptah. The celebration that started on ...

Guwahati, Jan 29 (IANS) All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) chief Badruddin Ajmal on Sunday said that Muslim people in Assam are keeping the Assamese language alive. Speaking at a function in ...

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, ...