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 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked Assam Governor Syed Sibtey
Razi to quit immediately. But the later is not ready before October.
According to information, it came up after the CBI raids alleged that
Razi's aides misused Governor House to swing the deals.
Former Jharkhand Governor's staff misused the Jharkhand Raj Bhavan
under Razi's watch for allegedly making money in postings and
transfers.
Assam Chief Minister Taerun Gogoi has also told the party high command
that he can't work with Sibtey Razi.
On August 11, the Prime Minister asked Razi to quit the office on
health grounds but Razi insisted on time until October when his
five-year term comes to an end.
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh would step up to nab the killers of
Assam journalist
Kamala Saikia, who was murdered by the separatist militants 18 years
ago. This was disclosed by Dr Singh as he was listening to the Indian
Editors' Guild officials in Delhi on Friday.
Editors Guild of India president Rajdeep Sardesai led the delegation
who apprised Dr Singh of the killig of journalists in Assam.
The prime minister promised to take up the case with Assam chief
minister Tarun Gogoi
once again. The Priem Minister would meet a delegation from Journalist Kamala
Saikia Memorial Trust during his next visit to Guwahati.
The Centre is quite unhappy with the law and order in Assam along with Manipur and Nagaland. Addressing the Chief Ministers’ Sumit in New Delhi on Monday, prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh and home minister P Chidambaram said the things have remained unchanged in these three north eastern states.
The Prime Minister said funds for border development have remained unutilized and that North Cachar hills anf BTAD areas are still on the boil.
In his speech Chidambaram cleared that the Centre would talk to the insurgent outfits only if they surrender. The home minister also said the ceasefire ground laws would be strictly followed in the north eastern states.
Two persons were killed, several others have been injured when suspected Naga miscreants attacked a tiny Dimasa hamlet in North Cachar hills district on Monday.
The incident took place in the morning as a group of miscreants stormed into a Dimasa village Bankah and set on fire the houses where as many as 40 houses were gutted in fire. A few of these miscreants started indiscriminate firing on the villagers who were running out of their houses where two persons were killed and several others injured.
Police came to the spot but by then the miscreants have fled from the spot. It ,may be noted that more than 100 people were killed, over two hundred others have been injured in a...
The Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has promised to take
initiative on the process to nab the killers of Assam based journalist
Kamala Saikia, who was murdered by the separatist militants 18 years
ago. Dr Singh was briefed about the professional hazard of media
persons in Assam-where more than 20 editor-journalists had fallen prey
to various anti-social elements in the last two decades-by the Editors
Guild of India president Rajdeep Sardesai during a meeting on August
14 in PMO.
Interacting with the editor’s guild president, the prime minister
assured to raise the matter with the Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi
once again. Dr Singh, who represents Assam in Rajya...
Two suspected cases of H1N1 infection have tested negative in Assam hardly 24 hours after the state confirmed its first patient of the kind. Two persons, suspected to be infected by the killer swine flu have been admitted at the isolation ward at the Jorhat Civil Hospital on Sunday. Their blood samples have been referred to the Dibrugarh based screening centre for confirmation. Reports confirmed negative. Notably, one Dhiraj Yadav, a 21 old boy from Pune is undergoing treatment at the MM Chaudhury Hospital on Saturday. Dhiraj, who is pursuing a law course in Pune came to visit his sister at Beltola in the city a few days back.
Two suspected cases of H1N1 infection have tested negative in Assam hardly 24 hours after the state confirmed its first patient of the kind. Two persons, suspected to be infected by the killer swine flu have been admitted at the isolation ward at the Jorhat Civil Hospital on Sunday. Their blood samples have been referred to the Dibrugarh based screening centre for confirmation. Reports confirmed negative. Notably, one Dhiraj Yadav, a 21 old boy from Pune is undergoing treatment at the MM Chaudhury Hospital on Saturday. Dhiraj, who is pursuing a law course in Pune came to visit his sister at Beltola in the city a few days back.
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I became interested in MDF after I came across the organization on the internet. Following a correspondence between Pranjal Buruah and I, I gladly took the...
Assam on Saturday confirmed its first H1N1 case in Guwahati. An 21-year-old boy was tested positive for Swine flu in in the northeast state.
According to Health department officials, the samples of the youth, who was admitted on Friday in the Mahendra Mohan Choudhury Hospital in Guwahati was sent to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) at Lahowal in Dibrugarh.
The pateint's residential address was given as Beltola in Guwahati. The patient had been kept in the isolation ward of the MMCH. This is the first of the 11 suspected cases of swine flu to test positive while the results of three others are awaited.
Assam Chief Minister Trun Gogoi on Saturday makes a clarion call to the misguided youths to eschew the path of violence to help the state develop on all fronts. Unfurling the national tricolour and inspecting the guard of honour by army police and para military forces at the Latasil Playground on the 63rd Independence Day in the morning Gogoi said his government has a slew of measures to ensure an all round development of the state.
He said the government is considering a rural development council to boost the rural economy. Gogoi expressed grave concern over the uneasy law and order situation in the two hills district and said these would be firmly dealt withy. He further said the hills...
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