The last decade has seen an explosion of writing from North-East India. While fiction and poetry from the region led the way, nonfiction, recording the history, politics, anthropology, environmental ...

The gamosa has entered the spotlight again, this time through a political controversy that followed the President of India’s ‘At Home’ reception after the Republic Day parade. The Bharatiya Janata ...

Mrinmoy Kumar, the founder of Baahi (Baahi.xomoy.com), the first Assamese music streaming platform, says the idea of the app came from a longing to listen to Assamese songs while away from home. As a ...

Origins of the Tweedledum-Tweedledee relationship between Bengali and Assamese can be traced to the provincial administration in British India where educated Bengalis in droves were at the helm. The ...

Manimugdha S Sharma is a Delhi-based editor with The Times of India. He is an ardent history buff with a fascination for military history. He loves infantry and artillery weapons, horses and swords, ...

Magh Bihu, also known as Bhogali Bihu, is a popular festival celebrated in the state of Assam in northeastern India. One of the most iconic traditions of this festival is the burning of mejis, which ...

In his famous essay, “Three Hundred Ramayanas,” (1987) AK Ramanujan ascertains the plurality of the Rama katha. While Valmiki, the sovereignty of the “original” Sanskrit text, created in Rama the ...