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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Delhi, September 30, 2020: Today, Microsoft India has announced the addition of Assamese as the latest Indian language in Microsoft Translator. The Azure-based service will now provide real-time ...

Guwahati: Central govt’s granting of classical language status to Assamese, alongside four other languages, has been welcomed across the political spectrum in the state. Chief minister Himanta Biswa ...

International Mother Language Day Observance Jorhat, Feb 21: In celebration of International Mother Language Day, the Asom ...

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 ...