The Delhi event will bring together prominent cultural figures, including sarod maestro Ustaad Amjad Ali Khan, Subhalakshami ...

Explore how language policy and identity fueled conflict in Assam, revisiting the 1961 Silchar violence in a new study.

Politicians, activists and scholars have documented the origins and development of the language, spoken mostly by tribal people, while the state government has shut down schools using Assamese. Since ...

The translation, titled Hikayat al-Jaddah ( Grandmother’s Tales ), marks the first time an Assamese literary work has been rendered into Arabic.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Journey Through Assamese Literature The allure of nostalgia and anticipation for the future captivates us, and literature ...

Two Guwahati-based NGOs and IIT Bombay's AI initiative BharatGen have joined hands to include Assamese language in the database of artificial intelligence, an official said on Wednesday. The three ...

Assamese to be compulsory official language for all government notifications, orders, acts and other such works in Assam, announced Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday. He further said that ...