The Assam government has intensified its efforts to strengthen the digital presence of the Assamese language and promote 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Guwahati: Assam Minister and Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) president Atul Bora on Wednesday asserted that no individual should be ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...