The last decade has seen an explosion of writing from North-East India. While fiction and poetry from the region led the way, nonfiction, recording the history, politics, anthropology, environmental ...

A group of volunteers from different parts of Assam have made an innovation of sorts by designing an Assamese word processor. ITANAGAR: A group of volunteers from different parts of Assam have made an ...

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 ...

Famous Assamese singer Gayatri Hazarika passed away on Friday at the age of 44 in Nemcare Hospital, Guwahati, Assam. She was suffering from colon cancer. The news of her demise has left the music ...

The Union Cabinet has approved the recognition of five more languages as "classical," Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday, expanding the nation's list of culturally significant tongues.

Encyclopaedic in scope and epic in range, The Assamese: A Portrait of a Community is full of details about Axom’s origins and the mind-boggling pluralities of its history, society, art, culture, music ...

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 ...

Assam Board 12th Assamese Syllabus: Here, the Assam Board Class 12 Assamese Syllabus has been attached for students who have chosen Assamese as one of their languages. Also, check the AHSEC Class 12 ...

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 ...

Microsoft India has added Assamese to its Azure-based Microsoft Translator service. The service now supports 12 Indian languages. These languages are Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, ...

GUWAHATI: The Assam government has made the Assamese language compulsory for all official works in the state barring five districts under the Bodoland Territorial Region and three districts in the ...