The poets from the mid-sixties of the last century have consciously resisted some of the tendencies in modernist poetry. Nature, which was nearly expelled from modernist poetry, was welcomed back. It ...

Hiren Gohain, one the giants of Assamese literature, asked why the new generation of Miya poets were using their own “artificial” dialects, rather than standard Assamese.

The Louvre Museum in Paris, which houses the legendary painting Mona Lisa, will now witness a documentary on Assamese poet Abani Chakraborty, who has been untraced since November 12, 1994. This is ...

The only point of clarity is that in a state where the dominant language, culture and much of the upper bureaucracy is Assamese, a majority of those excluded are Bengali speakers, with particular ...

Amritsar, February 26 On the second day of the Nutan International Theatre Festival, a play on one of the female Assamese poets was staged at Virsa Vihar here on Wednesday. Titled Bogi Zari, the ...

This will be the first attempt by an Assamese poet to cover all the existing works of the mediaeval poetess. A file photo of Bijoy Sankar Barman. Years ago, some Assamese poets did make an attempt ...

Miya poets of the 1980s, the Ahmeds, tapped the Assamese language to articulate the victimisation of Miya Muslims against the backdrop of Assam’s violent anti-foreigner agitation which was ...

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 expressed his love for Odisha and Odia poets by citing the stark similarity between Odia and Assamese language. “In today’s time, poems have been able to preserve the fundamental ...

Miya poets, in their insistence to be counted as Assamese, have created an inclusive idiom; This is part of a movement to preserve the cultural heritage of Bengal-origin Assamese Muslims; ...

The Assamese community in Chennai celebrated their cultural heritage with a grand event featuring traditional performances ... Government of Assam and Assam Association Chennai, drew poets, ...