A 29-year-old engineer-turned-filmmaker from the state has used artificial intelligence (AI) to create an art series to take the evergreen folk tales of the Assamese literary icon, Lakshminath ...

In a significant literary breakthrough, Abu Sayed Ansari, a PhD scholar from Assam’s Sontoli village, has translated the iconic Assamese folktale collection Burhi Aair Hadhu into Arabic. The book has ...

Hirak Jyoti Nath, hailing from a small town in Assam, grew up surrounded by the lush tea gardens and rich oral traditions of the Northeast. With limited access to advanced animation tools or formal ...

Just four years after Alam Ara, the first Hindi talkie, hit the screens in Mumbai came Joymati in Assamese (1935). The recently-published The Moving Image and Assamese Culture: Joymoti, Jyotiprasad ...

Mayong is a village on the banks of the Brahmaputra in Assam’s Morigaon district, about forty kilometres from Guwahati. It is famously known as the “Land of Black Magic,” though much of this is now ...