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 ...

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 poet Hiren Bhattacharyya is dead ... rebellion, loneliness and humanity which, unlike the work of most poets, also left an unmistakeable mark of hope and optimism.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Miya poets of Assam feel that implementing CAA, which grants citizenship to refugees from six religious groups excluding Muslims, would dilute the unique culture of Assam. The Matuas, meanwhile ...