Assamese
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Marathi, Bengali among five new ‘classical languages’ approved by Union Cabinet
Scroll Staff
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Fiction: Sriman is terrified after witnessing an incident he shouldn’t have
Dhrubajyoti Borah
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‘Riverside Stories’: This book of writings from Assam gives space to marginalised voices and themes
Shibani Phukan
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‘Under the Bakul Tree’: This Assamese YA novel deftly addresses education and the environment
Bijal Vachharajani
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Fiction: An ageing writer gets a mysterious letter which begins to colour his entire perception
Harekrishna Deka Navamalati Neog Chakraborty
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‘Beneath the Simolu Tree’: How the ordinary can inspire complex relationships with art and grief
Saloni Sharma
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Translated fiction: Prince Mriganko’s murder has sent shockwaves of sorrow across the entire kingdom
Rita Chowdhury Reeta Borbora
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Fiction: Paridhi grows up witnessing domestic violence at home but she will not suffer in silence
Sarmistha Pritam Ranjita Biswas
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‘All of us have been commodified’: Anuradha Sarma Pujari, who wrote a novel about capitalism in 1997
Shibani Phukan
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‘My Poems Are Not For Your Ad Campaign’: Shining idealism versus hypocritical corporate culture
Saloni Sharma
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A 1997 Assamese novel about advertising and consumerist culture has been translated into English
Anuradha Sarma Pujari Aruni Kashyap
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Nilim Kumar’s poetry collection ‘I’m Your Poet’ strains beyond normative habits of the mind
Kamalakar Bhat
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‘Sanskar’: Indira Goswami’s searing short story features in a new book on her work
Indira Goswami
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From outsiders to termites and infiltrators: How ‘Bangladeshi’ came to signify hate and difference
Suraj Gogoi
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A new collection presents the short fiction of Assamese writer Harekrishna Deka in all its urgency
Harekrishna Deka
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Homen Borgohain (1932-2021): Remembering the Assamese writer with his greatest novel, ‘Matsyagandha’
Homen Borgohain
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A reporter’s eye melds personal lives with the rhythms of the forest of Kaziranga in this novel
Suhasini Patni
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Wielding the bamboo: The media in Assam is marching for the cause of Assamese hyper-nationalism
Debarshi Das
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In Assam’s Brahmaputra Valley, the citizenship bill has opened old Assamese-Bengali fissures
Arunabh Saikia
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Write in English or a local language? Writers from Assam are caught in a linguistic crossfire
Mitra Phukan