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 ...

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 ...

There’s jubilation across Assam with many terming the move by the Centre as a safeguard against questions about the language’s distinctive identity. As a language, Assamese has a long, deep-rooted and ...

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 ...

GUWAHATI: Academics, students and engineering aspirants welcomed the National Testing Agency’s (NTA) decision to conduct the JEE (Main) in 10 more languages, including Assamese, from 2021. Drawing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Union Cabinet’s decision to confer classical language status on both Bengali and Assamese simultaneously puts to rest certain socio-historical and linguistic compulsions inevitable in the early ...