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.
Milestone has created in the Tai-Ahom history by launching "Patkai TV" a cable channel from Gargaon, Sivasagar. The channel is starting online weekly video news bulletin as "Patkai News" on every Sunday from January 7, 2012. According to Anup Arandhara, the proprietor of Patkai TV, the channel is also telecasting, daily 15 minutes English news bulletin. The Channel is available online at www.pakaitv.tk, also available at YouTube and Google as Patkaitv.
The 20th biennial conference of All Sonowal-Kochari Students Union will start from Friday january 20 at Margherita. All the preparations are completed for the conference, which will be held at North-Margherita Auditorium.
A Japanese team is conducting an operation to exhume the remains of 11 soldiers at the Guwahati war cemetery on Wednesday. A team of three Japanese officials arrived is in Guwahati to take back the remains of the soldiers and perform their last rites in their own country. The Japanese government had approached the Centre to take back the remains of the soldiers and the exhumation was being carried out accordingly.
The operation to exhume the remains was carried out in presence of officials of Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The remains found in the graves were collected by the Forensic Science Laboratory and would be handed over to the Japanese authorities after the required tests...
Security forces seized a huge cache of explosive materials at Lumding Railway station on Wednesday amid speculations of an impending string of attack in the run up to the Republic Day.
Four bags were spotted by the security forces at the platform No 2 at around 9-30 in the morning. These contained 600 geleatin sticks, 600 pieces of detonators and 12 packets of fuse wires were kept inside four bags.
Dr. Abani Chandra Goswami, a scientist who retired as the Head of the Department of Chemistry from Jorhat Institute of Science & Technology passed away this morning at his Jorhat residence. Dr. Goswami donated his Eyes to Jeuti Eye Bank and his body to Jorhat Medical College Hospital for further studies. He believed in life and pledged to help others live even after death and his promise went fullfilled. After noted social worker Suchibrata Raichoudhury I think Dr Goswami is second one who donated his body to the society.
Biswajyoti Barkataki, Jorhat
The fourth Biennial conference of Sivasagar district commitee of All Gurkha Students Union (AGSU) will be held at Sapekhati March 24-25. The decision has done, in the recently held annual executive meeting of district unit, at Eleven Star Club at Sonari, which is Presided by the President of the district committee, Purukhuttam Subba.
Over one hundred and fifty hardcore militants are all set to surrender before chief minister Tarun Gogoi at a function on January 24.
These militants would represent altogether nine outfits operating in Assam. These outfits include Adivasi Cobra Military of Assam, BCF, STF, APPA, ANLA, Hmar Peoples’ Convention, Kuki Liberation Army, UKDA, KRA. The surrender would pave the way for talks to end insurgency problems in Assam.
Suspected NSCN(IM) cadres are still unleashing a reign of terror along Assam-Nagaland border in Sivasagar district.
A five member group of miscreants looted fifty thousand rupees in cash from a businessman in Charaideo on Tuesday. The incident took place at Namtola area in the evening when the miscreants took away the money from Pancham Shah at gun point and beat up him mercilessly. Even they unleashed terror with blank firing. Meanwhile, security forces are carrying out combing operation to nab the culprits.
At least five persons have been injured at a sensational incident of robbery at a passenger train in Barpeta district on Tuesday.
The incident took place at the Alipurduar bound Siphung Express in between Barpeta and Sorbhog. A gang of ten dacoits who were travelling in the train in the guise of passengers unless terror and took away money, gold ornaments, mobile handsets from the passengers at gun point. Five passengers have been injured. They were identified as Dulumoni Dutta, Khaneswar Roy, Pradeep Chaudhury, Jiban Saha and Manik Mahanayak who were administered preliminary treatment at Sarbhog.
The Gauhati refinery authorities claimed that the recent fire was not an ULFA sabotage. But all eyes are fixed on the soon to be filed enquiry report of a panel set up by the government.
According to the enquiry report the refinery authorities received on Tuesday, the fire was an accident and not a sabotage by ULFA as the outfit claimed minutes after the fire broke out on January 10.
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