Noted litterateur Rong Bong Terang has been elected the new president of Asom Sahitya Sabha on Sunday. The announcement to this effect was made by the state’s largest literary body came up at the Bhgawati Prasad Baruah Bhawan in Guwahati after the counting of votes sent by the district bodies ended. Kanak Chandra Sarma will be vice president while Dr Paramananda Rajbanshi has been elected as the secretary of the literary body. Terang is a litterateur whose epoch Rong Milir Hanhi sent him into the acme of glory. Contemporary social life in the state is very much there in his literary works . Jak Heruwa Pakhi is all about the ethnic frenzy between Karbis and the Kukis. The Assam agitation is what dominates his Krantikalor Oshru….During that time, he was attracted by the prose works of Hem Barooah’s Hagor Dekhisa not to speak of Banikanta Kakoti’s Sahitya Aaru Prem. Besides, he wrote a lot for Karbi language and literature. Mention may be made of Karbi Lamkuru, Karbi Kala Aaditag. Besides, some of his notable works in Assamese literature are Rong Milir Hanhi, Karbi Sahitya-Sanskritit Abhumuki, Nila Orchid, Smritir Papori and what not. It was Terang who for the first time used the word Karbi Anglong in his lyric.
PermalinkSubmitted by T DIPU SINGH on Sat, 09/05/2009 - 11:49
Rongbong Terang is a great writer and a well-known personality of Diphu, Karbi Anglong in Assam. His work is really appreciable and unique. Assam Sahitya Sabha will go a long way under his presidentship. We wish him all the good luck and prayers for future.
PermalinkSubmitted by rituraj boruah on Mon, 26/10/2009 - 14:36
Respected Sir,
Myself as a magazine secy. of Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat needs a article from you.so please advice me how can I get your article. I will be remain grateful if you respond my request.
PermalinkSubmitted by Dr Ramani Barman on Mon, 09/11/2009 - 10:59
Asam Sahity Sabha since its inception selecting the person as its President who hiself is an institution. This time Rongbong Terang has been selected to Chair the glorious organisation of the people of Assam. Hope, he will be able to lead the present complex situation for better cause of Assam and the North East with selfless design.
PermalinkSubmitted by Tapan Kumar Bor... on Tue, 16/03/2010 - 19:50
"You are the best choice as the President of our respected Asom Sahitya Sabha. We hope that you can make our Assom peaceful And "Samannayar Shetu" between the pahar & Bhoyam. You make us (our Sahitya Sabha) proud to be an Assamese."
PermalinkSubmitted by Nayan Dutta on Sat, 15/05/2010 - 19:42
'sir i think that finally the eyes of assamese people open as they elect a person like you to save our assamese culture from sure destruction.'i wish a very good health of you.
The Delhi High Court has issued notice to the government and chairperson of the 59th National Film Awards on a plea seeking quashing the decision of the jury for not accepting the nomination of an Assamese film for the awards.
The court issued notice to the information and broadcasting ministry and Rohini Hattangadi, chairperson and jury, Hiren Bora, jury of the 59th National Film Awards, and the Central Board of Film Certification.
A division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw sought from all the respondents the reason for not treating the film as an Assamese film.
The petitioner said that inspite of the certification received from the CBFC to...
Assam is fully prepared to welcome prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh who is on a visit to Guwahati on Friday.
Dr Singh is set to land at the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport at 10-30 in the morning on Wednesday. He would straightly leave for the Nehru stadium by a helicopter. Then he would attend a function at the B Barooah Cancer Institute.
The Prime Minister will inaugurate the physical facility of the state-of-the-art Linear Accelerator with Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), Image-Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) and SRS/SRT, commissioned with grants-in-aid from NEC and Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).
During the visit, Dr. Manmohan Singh will also...
Security forces apprehended four hardcore GNLA militants in Goalpara district bordering Meghalaya on Wednesday.
They were picked up from Krishnai area during a combing operation by police and Army’s Nineth Sikhla regiment. Acting on a tip off that four GNLA militants were hiding in the area, joint team of police and army launched the operation where they were picked up. They have been identified as Ravi Sangma, Limcheng Marak, Nareswar Rabha and Rakjen Marak. Police seized two handmade revolvers and two motorcycle from their possession.
Apprehending ULFA strike in the run up to Prime Minister’s visit, the Northeast Frontier Railway has cancelled eleven trains and rescheduled four others from Wednedsay.
According to NF Railway, the trains will remain cancelled till April 20 and these include UP and DN Kolongpar passenger running betwen Guwahati and Moirabari,
UP and DN Guwahati-Silghat town passenger, UP and DN Chaparmukh-Silghat town passenger, UP and DN Tinsukia-Lumding passenger, Simaluguri-Dibrugarh-Simaluguri passenger, Tinsukia-Dangri passenger, Mariani-Jorhat-Mariani passenger and Kamakhya-Dhubri passenger.
The DN Ledo-Guwahati-Kamakhya Intercity Express scheduled to leave New Tinsukia at 1700 hrs has...
The ministerial panel set up to deal with agitation against the Lower Subansiri hydel power project submitted its report before chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday.
Led by the panel chairman and power minister Pradyut Bordoloi, the group of minister called on Gogoi at his official residence in Koinadhora where the final report was submitted.
The panel was set up at the height of the simmering protest against the NHPC-owned big dam at Gerukamukh along Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border.
One person was killed and four others were injured when a speeding passenger train hit them in the outskirts of Guwahati on Tuesday.
The incident took place near Thakurbari in Chandrapur area at around 10-30 in the morning. The deceased and the injured were all employees of the Northeast Frontier Railway. Some trackmen were working on the two railway tracks in the area when two trains passed by simultaneously and the Nagaon-bound Kolongpar Express hit the workers.
The injured people have been rushed to the Railway Hospital in Maligaon and the condition of two of them is stated to be serious.
Assam Police constable Abhijit Baruah on Tuesday officially entered in the Guinness World Records as the longest barefoot runner three months after he ran 156.2 km in 24 hours.
The 20 year old Baruah, who hails from Jorhat scripted the history on January 30 this year when he started his run at 3.56 p.m. and ended it at 3.56 p.m. the following day. On May 28 last year, Abhijit -- also a black belt in karate and kickboxing -- had run 150 km in 26 hours and 31 minutes and entered his name in the Limca Book of Records. The Assam government announced an award of Rs.2 lakh to Abhijit, and the cheque for the amount was handed over to him by Congress MLA from Jorhat constituency Rana Goswami...
Mishing dance by Bidisha.. The Mangalz- arunachali band.. 3-sisters Manipuri band - Minute of Decay.. Bihu dance competition on day-3 Bihu dance competition on day-3 Assamese rock band - Bamboo Groove Theang Teron of Negative Space performing.. Photos by: Drakhya Ranjan Gogoi
For the residents of Delhi who belong to Assam, celebrating the spring away from home is nothing new. But this time it was in a different fervour and flavour. Along with the different celebrations of Bihu across the capital, Pooberun, a socio-cultural initiative of north-east students of Delhi University, organized yesterday an unembellished yet joyous event here. Named as Boxonto Utxob: The Splendour of Spring, the event was an effort by Poberun to showcase and celebrate cultural richness of Assam in a pan-Indian platform, using the university as a space.
“We wanted to celebrate spring, not just Bihu, we wanted to make it an inclusive celebration of spring for all the people of...
ssam’s Angaraag Papon Mahanta, world-renowned percussionist Bickram Ghosh from Kolkata and Scottish singer-songwriter Rachel Sermanni swayed the audience into a musical synergy in folk music that transcends borders. The performance took place in the prestigious SouthBank Centre, London last Friday (13th April 2012). South Bank Centre is the largest single-run arts centre in the world and includes the Royal festival Hall, Hayward Gallery, Queen Elizabeth hall and the Purcell Room.
The concept “TROIKALA” attempts to carefully handpick three artists from different regions and explore a whole new folk music, rich with heritage, borrowing influences from new-age textures...
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