Marathi, Bengali among five new ‘classical languages’ approved by Union Cabinet

Scroll Staff

· Oct 04, 2024 · 01:18 pm

Fiction: Sriman is terrified after witnessing an incident he shouldn’t have

Dhrubajyoti Borah

· Sep 12, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘Riverside Stories’: This book of writings from Assam gives space to marginalised voices and themes

Shibani Phukan

· Aug 11, 2024 · 07:30 am

‘Under the Bakul Tree’: This Assamese YA novel deftly addresses education and the environment

Bijal Vachharajani

· Jun 23, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Fiction: An ageing writer gets a mysterious letter which begins to colour his entire perception

Harekrishna Deka Navamalati Neog Chakraborty

· Apr 26, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘Beneath the Simolu Tree’: How the ordinary can inspire complex relationships with art and grief

Saloni Sharma

· Mar 09, 2024 · 08:30 am

Translated fiction: Prince Mriganko’s murder has sent shockwaves of sorrow across the entire kingdom

Rita Chowdhury Reeta Borbora

· Feb 22, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: Paridhi grows up witnessing domestic violence at home but she will not suffer in silence

Sarmistha Pritam Ranjita Biswas

· Jan 12, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘All of us have been commodified’: Anuradha Sarma Pujari, who wrote a novel about capitalism in 1997

Shibani Phukan

· Nov 05, 2023 · 01:30 pm

‘My Poems Are Not For Your Ad Campaign’: Shining idealism versus hypocritical corporate culture

Saloni Sharma

· Aug 05, 2023 · 01:30 pm

A 1997 Assamese novel about advertising and consumerist culture has been translated into English

Anuradha Sarma Pujari Aruni Kashyap

· Jun 26, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Nilim Kumar’s poetry collection ‘I’m Your Poet’ strains beyond normative habits of the mind

Kamalakar Bhat

· Jun 17, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘Sanskar’: Indira Goswami’s searing short story features in a new book on her work

Indira Goswami

· Aug 29, 2022 · 05:30 pm

From outsiders to termites and infiltrators: How ‘Bangladeshi’ came to signify hate and difference

Suraj Gogoi

· May 20, 2022 · 09:00 am

A new collection presents the short fiction of Assamese writer Harekrishna Deka in all its urgency

Harekrishna Deka

· Aug 31, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Homen Borgohain (1932-2021): Remembering the Assamese writer with his greatest novel, ‘Matsyagandha’

Homen Borgohain

· May 13, 2021 · 08:30 am

A reporter’s eye melds personal lives with the rhythms of the forest of Kaziranga in this novel

Suhasini Patni

· Dec 08, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Wielding the bamboo: The media in Assam is marching for the cause of Assamese hyper-nationalism

Debarshi Das

· Nov 12, 2018 · 07:00 am

In Assam’s Brahmaputra Valley, the citizenship bill has opened old Assamese-Bengali fissures

Arunabh Saikia

· Jun 23, 2018 · 09:00 am

Write in English or a local language? Writers from Assam are caught in a linguistic crossfire

Mitra Phukan

· Apr 07, 2018 · 05:30 pm