A compilation of 32 Assamese poems written by Assamese poet and Sahitya Akademi Yuva Purushkar awardee Bijoy Sankar Barman has been translated into the Estonian language and will be available in print ...

Nalinidhar Bhattacharya passed away due to old-age ailments. Guwahati: 'Sahitya Akademi' award winning Assamese litterateur Nalinidhar Bhattacharya passed away today due to old-age ailments, family ...

Popular and celebrated Assamese poet and winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award and several honours Hiren Bhattacharyya passed away at a private hospital here on Wednesday. He had been undergoing ...

It is considered to be one of the oldest and most beautiful collections of love poems in the history of world literature. He sees the project as both a literary endeavour and an attempt to build a ...

GUWAHATI: A leading 'Miya' poet, who was among the 10 poets booked after a video of his poem about alleged discrimination towards Bengali-speaking Muslims in Assam was shared online, expressed regret ...

Sometimes it takes a new language to tell a story differently. Unbound by grammatical moorings or even a formal script to call its own, Miya poetry has emerged as a rallying point for a large section ...

Every artist/author offers up their work and their selves to critics. But in the grand scheme of things, will Shakespeare’s soliloquies lose their meaningful place in his oeuvre if critics dismiss ...

and hold each other close. Excerpted with permission from The Yellow Metaphor: Poems from Assam, Jiban Narah, translated from the Assamese by Anindita Kar, Penguin India.

Delhi, India – Since childhood, 29-year-old Shalim Hussain, a research scholar at Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University, has contended with being called a “Miya”. Although the word literally means ...

‘Sahitya Akademi’ award winning Assamese litterateur Nalinidhar Bhattacharya passed away here today due to old-age ailments, family sources said. The 95-year-old poet was admitted to a local nursing ...