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আপুনি যদি Google বা YouTube ত Assamese Essay on Favourite Book বুলি বিচাৰি আছে নেকি? যদি হয়, তেন্তে আজিৰ এই লিখনি ( Favourite Book Essay in Assamese ) য়ে আপোনাক বহুত সহায় কৰিব।

আজি আমি আপোনালোকৰ বাবে Assamese Essay on Favourite Book বা “ প্ৰিয় গ্ৰন্থ ” অসমীয়া ৰচনা লৈ আহিছোঁ যিয়ে আপোনাক HSLC/HS Final Exam ত বহুত সহায় কৰিব। তেন্তে আহক কোনো সময় অপচয় নকৰাকৈ আজি আমি Assamese Essay on Favourite Book আলোচনা কৰোঁ।

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অসমীয়া ৰচনা “প্রিয় গ্রন্থ”

পুথি অধ্যয়নে মানুহৰ মনৰ দিগন্ত প্ৰসাৰিত কৰে। কিতাপ পঢ়াটো পৃথিৱীৰ বহু ভাল কামৰ অন্যতম। খাদ্য, বস্ত্র, বাসস্থানৰ চাহিদা পূৰ হোৱাৰ পাছতে মানুহে অনুভৱ কৰা চাহিদাটোৱেই হ’ল পুথি অধ্যয়ন। কাৰণ পঢ়ালিখা কৰাৰে পৰা মানুহ উন্নতিৰ পথত দিনক দিনে আগবাঢ়ি গৈছে। পুথি অধ্যয়নৰ পৰাহে মানুহৰ মগজুৰ বিকাশ সম্ভৱ। পাঠ্যপুথিৰ বাহিৰেও সেয়ে ময়ো মোৰ মানসিক চাহিদা পূৰাব পৰাকৈ কিতাপ পঢ়াৰ অভ্যাস গঢ়ি তুলিছো। মোৰ প্ৰিয় গ্রন্থ হ’ল ‘জীৱনৰ বাটত’।

অসমীয়া সাহিত্যৰ কাণ্ডাৰী, পণ্ডিত বিৰিঞ্চি কুমাৰ বৰুৱাই বীণা বৰুৱাৰ নামত লিখি উলিয়ালে অনুপম উপন্যাস ‘জীৱনৰ বাটত’। সৰ্বকালৰ সকলো পাঠকে ভাল পাব পৰা এটা নিটোল কাহিনী আছে ইয়াত। গাঁৱৰ এজনী সহজসৰল ছোৱালী তগৰ এজন শিক্ষিত ডেকা কমলাকান্তৰ প্ৰেমত পৰিল। বন্ধু কৃষ্ণ দত্তৰ ভনীয়েকৰ বিয়া খাবলৈ আহি ৰাংঢালী, ৰূপহী, কোমলমতীয়া তগৰ ফুলৰ দৰে তগৰক দেখি কমলাকান্ত ভোল গ’ল। বিয়াঘৰৰ উদুলি-মুদুলিৰ মাজত লাহে লাহে দুয়োৰে প্রেমে পোখা মেলিবলৈ আৰম্ভ কৰিছিল।

কিন্তু ভাগ্যৰ খেলা কোনে জানে, সফলতাৰ দিশত আগুৱাই যোৱা মেধাৱী কমলাকান্তৰ বাবে এটা সময়ত তগৰ এলাগী হৈ পৰিল। ক্ষন্তেক সময়ৰ মিলনতে অতি আবেগৰ বশৱৰ্তী হৈ গোপনে আঙঠি পিন্ধাই থৈ অহা গাঁৱৰ ছোৱালীজনী এদিন কমলাকান্তৰ বাবে পৰ হৈ গ’ল। ৰায়বাহাদুৰ মাণিক হাজৰিকাৰ যশ, গৌৰৱ, প্রতিপত্তিৰ চকমকনিত কেৰাণীৰ ল’ৰা কমলাকান্তই পাহৰি গ’ল তগৰৰ কথা। সময় বাগৰাৰ লগে লগে মাতৃহীনা তগৰকো পিতৃয়ে বিয়া দিলে ক্ষন্তেকৰ বাবে তগৰৰ মন পিছলা ধৰণী মাষ্টৰলৈ।

এই ঘটনাৰ পৰাই সলনি হৈ গ’ল সকলো। ঘাত-প্রতিঘাত, কষ্টৰে পাৰ হ’ল তগৰৰ সময়। ফুলৰ দৰে কোমল আৰু মৰমীয়াল তগৰৰ জীৱনলৈ অনেক পৰিৱৰ্তন আহিল। চঞ্চল, মিঠামুখীয়া সহনশীল তগৰক বয়সে টানি দিলে গহীন ওৰণি। তগৰ গুছি ধৰণী কলিতাৰ পৰিবাৰ তগৰ কলিতানী হ’ল, কমলিনীৰ মাক হ’ল। মূৰ পাতি ল’লে সাংসাৰিক দৈন্য, দুখ, অভাৱ, ৰুগীয়া স্বামীক। এদিন স্বামীহাৰা হৈ অন্ধকাৰ দেখিলে তগৰে। তথাপি বিচলিত নহৈ নিজৰ কৰ্তব্য সুকলমে কৰি গ’ল। কিন্তু জীৱন আৰু বিধিৰ বিধান কোনে জানে, প্রথমবাৰ লগ হওঁতেই যেনেকৈ এদিন কমলাকান্তৰ হাতত তামোল-পাণৰ খুন্দাত তেজ ওলাইছিল, জীৱনৰ বিয়লি পৰতো সেই ঘটনাৰে যেন পুনৰাবৃত্তি ঘটিল। বৰ্তমানৰ ৰায়বাহাদুৰৰ জোৱায়েক, ভৰা সংসাৰৰ গৰাকী কমলাকান্তৰ হাতত পৰিলহি যৌৱনৰ দিনতে তগৰক গোপনে পিন্ধোৱা আঙঠিটো। চমুকৈ এয়াই হ’ল জীৱনৰ বাটত নামৰ অনুপম উপন্যাসখনৰ কাহিনীভাগ।

অতি সৰল আৰু নিভাঁজ অসমীয়া শব্দৰ ব্যৱহাৰ উপন্যাসখনৰ অন্যতম সম্পদ। অসমীয়া গাঁৱৰ সমাজখনক ইয়াত ইমান সুন্দৰকৈ ফুটাই তুলিছে যে যিকোনো পাঠকৰ বাবে ই উপভোগ্য হ’বই। উপন্যাস আৰম্ভ হৈছে এটি পদ্যৰে,

‘কাম চৰাইৰ ৰঙা ঠোট তাতে দিলে দীঘল ফোঁট পিতাদেউ পিতাদেউ দূৰলৈ নিদিবি মোক..’

– যি গোটেই উপন্যাসখনকে প্রতিনিধিত্ব কৰিছে। ডঃ বিৰিঞ্চি কুমাৰ বৰুৱাই এনেদৰে গোটেই পৰিবেশ বৰ্ণনা কৰিছে যে চকুৰ আগত স্পষ্ট হৈ পৰিছে কোনো এখন গাঁৱৰ পৰিৱেশ। অতিৰিক্ত এনে এটা শব্দ নাই যিটো অদৰকাৰী বুলি বাদ দিব পাৰি। কেৱল কলমৰ শব্দৰে শক্তিশালী বর্ণনা দিব পৰা বীণা বৰুৱাৰ অনবদ্য সৃষ্টি ‘জীৱনৰ বাটত’। এগৰাকী নাৰীৰ মনৰ গভীৰত বুৰ মাৰিব পৰা অনুভৱ শক্তি আছে লেখকৰ। উপন্যাসখনৰ চৰিত্ৰ, সংলাপ, পৰিৱেশ ৰচনা, আৰম্ভণী, সামৰণি, উত্থান-পতন সকলো সুনিপুণ ৰূপত প্ৰকাশ হৈছে। তগৰ, মৌজাদাৰ, মৌজাদাৰনী, কৃষ্ণ দত্ত, কমলাকান্ত, গাঁৱৰ মানুহবোৰ, তেওঁলোকৰ চাল-চলন সকলোৱে মোৰ মন স্পর্শ কৰি যায়।

‘ভালপোৱাই মান-অপমানৰ বিচাৰ নকৰে, বিধি-অনুষ্ঠানলৈ বাট চাব নোখোজে….’ এনে সংলাপে চুই যায় মন। ‘বোৱাৰীয়েনো ধান নেবানো, পানী নানো বুলি কোন দিনা থিয় যুঁজ ধৰিছে?’ তগৰৰ কষ্ট সহ্য কৰিব নোৱাৰি অনাহকত তগৰক ব্যতিব্যস্ত কৰা মাকক ধৰণীয়ে কোৱা কথাষাৰে তগৰৰ দুৰ্দশাৰ কথাকে সংলাপৰ ৰূপত বৰ্ণনা কৰিছে। গাঁৱত ভাল-বেয়া, সৰল-কুটিল সকলো ধৰণৰ মানুহ থাকে, যাক সুন্দৰ ৰূপত প্ৰকাশ হৈছে। আৰম্ভণীতে কমলাকান্তৰ হাতৰ বটাৰ খুন্দাত কপালৰ তেজ ওলাই যোৱাটোৱেই শেষত গৈ কমলাকান্তই তগৰক দিয়া মর্মান্তিক আঘাতৰ কথাকে বুজালে। কাহিনীৰ, চৰিত্ৰৰ উত্থান-পতনৰ সাবলীল বর্ণনাই মোক অভিভূত কৰি তোলে।

অসমৰ লোক-সংস্কৃতিৰ ক্ষেত্ৰতো অসীম অৱদান দিয়া বৰুৱাৰ ‘জীৱনৰ বাটত’ উপন্যাস অসমীয়া সাহিত্যৰ ভঁৰালৰ আপুৰুগীয়া সম্পদ। উপন্যাসখনৰ প্ৰতিটো অধ্যায়তে অসমৰ সৰল জীৱনৰ উপস্থাপনাই ইয়াক কালোত্তীর্ণ উপন্যাসৰ শাৰীত থিয় কৰাইছে। সুখপাঠ্য উপন্যাসখন এবাৰ পঢ়াৰ পাছত পুনৰবাৰ পঢ়িবৰ বাবে মন যায়। উপন্যাসখনৰ পাতে পাতে পোৱা অনবদ্য সাহিত্যিক ৰসে আমাৰ দৰে সাধাৰণ পাঠককো যুগ যুগ ধৰি অকৰ্ষণ কৰি ৰাখিব, ৰাখিছে।

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Favorite Book ( প্রিয় গ্রন্থ) Essay In Assamese

অসমীয়া ৰচনা প্রিয় গ্রন্থ, প্রিয় গ্রন্থ.

পুথি অধ্যয়নে মানুহৰ মনৰ দিগন্ত প্ৰসাৰিত কৰে। কিতাপ পঢ়াটো পৃথিৱীৰ বহু ভাল কামৰ অন্যতম। খাদ্য , বস্ত্র , বাসস্থানৰ চাহিদা পূৰ হোৱাৰ পাছতে মানুহে অনুভৱ কৰা চাহিদাটোৱেই হ ’ ল পুথি অধ্যয়ন। কাৰণ পঢ়ালিখা কৰাৰে পৰা মানুহ উন্নতিৰ পথত দিনক দিনে আগবাঢ়ি গৈছে। পুথি অধ্যয়নৰ পৰাহে মানুহৰ মগজুৰ বিকাশ সম্ভৱ। পাঠ্যপুথিৰ বাহিৰেও সেয়ে ময়ো মোৰ মানসিক চাহিদা পূৰাব পৰাকৈ কিতাপ পঢ়াৰ অভ্যাস গঢ়ি তুলিছো। মোৰ প্ৰিয় গ্রন্থ হ ’ ল ‘ জীৱনৰ বাটত ’ ।

গ্ৰন্থখনৰ পৰিচয় আৰু কাহিনী ভাগ :

অসমীয়া সাহিত্যৰ কাণ্ডাৰী , পণ্ডিত বিৰিঞ্চি কুমাৰ বৰুৱাই বীণা বৰুৱাৰ নামত লিখি উলিয়ালে অনুপম উপন্যাস ‘ জীৱনৰ বাটত ' । সৰ্বকালৰ সকলো পাঠকে ভাল পাব পৰা এটা নিটোল কাহিনী আছে ইয়াত। গাঁৱৰ এজনী সহজ - সৰল ছোৱালী তগৰ এজন শিক্ষিত ডেকা কমলাকান্তৰ প্ৰেমত পৰিল। বন্ধু কৃষ্ণ দত্তৰ ভনীয়েকৰ বিয়া খাবলৈ আহি ৰাংঢালী , ৰূপহী , কোমলমতীয়া তগৰ ফুলৰ দৰে তগৰক দেখি কমলাকান্ত ভোল গ ’ ল। বিয়াঘৰৰ উদুলি - মুদুলিৰ মাজত লাহে লাহে দুয়োৰে প্রেমে পোখা মেলিবলৈ আৰম্ভ কৰিছিল। কিন্তু ভাগ্যৰ খেলা কোনে জানে , সফলতাৰ দিশত আগুৱাই যোৱা মেধাৱী কমলাকান্তৰ বাবে এটা সময়ত তগৰ এলাগী হৈ পৰিল। ক্ষন্তেক সময়ৰ মিলনতে অতি আবেগৰ বশৱৰ্তী হৈ গোপনে আঙঠি পিন্ধাই থৈ অহা গাঁৱৰ ছোৱালীজনী এদিন কমলাকান্তৰ বাবে পৰ হৈ গ ’ ল। ৰায়বাহাদুৰ মাণিক হাজৰিকাৰ যশ , গৌৰৱ , প্রতিপত্তিৰ চকমকনিত কেৰাণীৰ ল ’ ৰা কমলাকান্তই পাহৰি গ ’ ল তগৰৰ কথা। সময় বাগৰাৰ লগে লগে মাতৃহীনা তগৰকো পিতৃয়ে বিয়া দিলে ক্ষন্তেকৰ বাবে তগৰৰ মন পিছলা ধৰণী মাষ্টৰলৈ ।

এই ঘটনাৰ পৰাই সলনি হৈ গ ’ ল সকলো। ঘাত - প্রতিঘাত , কষ্টৰে পাৰ হ ’ ল তগৰৰ সময়। ফুলৰ দৰে কোমল আৰু মৰমীয়াল তগৰৰ জীৱনলৈ অনেক পৰিৱৰ্তন আহিল। চঞ্চল , মিঠামুখীয়া সহনশীল তগৰক বয়সে টানি দিলে গহীন ওৰণি। তগৰ গুছি ধৰণী কলিতাৰ পৰিবাৰ তগৰ কলিতানী হ ’ ল , কমলিনীৰ মাক হ ’ ল। মূৰ পাতি ল ’ লে সাংসাৰিক দৈন্য , দুখ , অভাৱ , ৰুগীয়া স্বামীক। এদিন স্বামীহাৰা হৈ অন্ধকাৰ দেখিলে তগৰে। তথাপি বিচলিত নহৈ নিজৰ কৰ্তব্য সুকলমে কৰি গ ’ ল। কিন্তু জীৱন আৰু বিধিৰ বিধান কোনে জানে , প্রথমবাৰ লগ হওঁতেই যেনেকৈ এদিন কমলাকান্তৰ হাতত তামোল - পাণৰ খুন্দাত তেজ ওলাইছিল , জীৱনৰ বিয়লি পৰতো সেই ঘটনাৰে যেন পুনৰাবৃত্তি ঘটিল। বৰ্তমানৰ ৰায়বাহাদুৰৰ জোৱায়েক , ভৰা সংসাৰৰ গৰাকী কমলাকান্তৰ হাতত পৰিলহি যৌৱনৰ দিনতে তগৰক গোপনে পিন্ধোৱা আঙঠিটো। চমুকৈ এয়াই হ ' ল জীৱনৰ বাটত নামৰ অনুপম উপন্যাসখনৰ কাহিনীভাগ ।

ভাল লগাৰ কাৰণ :

অতি সৰল আৰু নিভাঁজ অসমীয়া শব্দৰ ব্যৱহাৰ উপন্যাসখনৰ অন্যতম সম্পদ। অসমীয়া গাঁৱৰ সমাজখনক ইয়াত ইমান সুন্দৰকৈ ফুটাই তুলিছে যে যিকোনো পাঠকৰ বাবে ই উপভোগ্য হ ’ বই। উপন্যাস আৰম্ভ হৈছে এটি পদ্যৰে , 

‘ কাম চৰাইৰ ৰঙা ঠোট  

তাতে দিলে দীঘল ফোঁট  

  পিতাদেউ পিতাদেউ  

  দূৰলৈ নিদিবি মোক ..'

– যি গোটেই উপন্যাসখনকে প্রতিনিধিত্ব কৰিছে। ডঃ বিৰিঞ্চি কুমাৰ বৰুৱাই এনেদৰে গোটেই পৰিবেশ বৰ্ণনা কৰিছে যে চকুৰ আগত স্পষ্ট হৈ পৰিছে কোনো এখন গাঁৱৰ পৰিৱেশ। অতিৰিক্ত এনে এটা শব্দ নাই যিটো অদৰকাৰী বুলি বাদ দিব পাৰি। কেৱল কলমৰ শব্দৰে শক্তিশালী বর্ণনা দিব পৰা বীণা বৰুৱাৰ অনবদ্য সৃষ্টি ‘ জীৱনৰ বাটত ' । এগৰাকী নাৰীৰ মনৰ গভীৰত বুৰ মাৰিব পৰা অনুভৱ শক্তি আছে লেখকৰ। উপন্যাসখনৰ চৰিত্ৰ , সংলাপ , পৰিৱেশ ৰচনা , আৰম্ভণী , সামৰণি , উত্থান - পতন সকলো সুনিপুণ ৰূপত প্ৰকাশ হৈছে। তগৰ , মৌজাদাৰ , মৌজাদাৰনী , কৃষ্ণ দত্ত , কমলাকান্ত , গাঁৱৰ মানুহবোৰ , তেওঁলোকৰ চাল - চলন সকলোৱে মোৰ মন স্পর্শ কৰি যায়। ‘ ভালপোৱাই মান - অপমানৰ বিচাৰ নকৰে , বিধি - অনুষ্ঠানলৈ বাট চাব নোখোজে ….’ এনে সংলাপে চুই যায় মন। ‘ বোৱাৰীয়েনো ধান নেবানো , পানী নানো বুলি কোন দিনা থিয় যুঁজ ধৰিছে ?’ তগৰৰ কষ্ট সহ্য কৰিব নোৱাৰি অনাহকত তগৰক ব্যতিব্যস্ত কৰা মাকক ধৰণীয়ে কোৱা কথাষাৰে তগৰৰ দুৰ্দশাৰ কথাকে সংলাপৰ ৰূপত বৰ্ণনা কৰিছে। গাঁৱত ভাল - বেয়া , সৰল - কুটিল সকলো ধৰণৰ মানুহ থাকে , যাক সুন্দৰ ৰূপত প্ৰকাশ হৈছে। আৰম্ভণীতে কমলাকান্তৰ হাতৰ বটাৰ খুন্দাত কপালৰ তেজ ওলাই যোৱাটোৱেই শেষত গৈ কমলাকান্তই তগৰক দিয়া মর্মান্তিক আঘাতৰ কথাকে বুজালে। কাহিনীৰ , চৰিত্ৰৰ উত্থান - পতনৰ সাবলীল বর্ণনাই মোক অভিভূত কৰি তোলে ।

অসমৰ লোক - সংস্কৃতিৰ ক্ষেত্ৰতো অসীম অৱদান দিয়া বৰুৱাৰ ‘ জীৱনৰ বাটত ’ উপন্যাস অসমীয়া সাহিত্যৰ ভঁৰালৰ আপুৰুগীয়া সম্পদ। উপন্যাসখনৰ প্ৰতিটো অধ্যায়তে অসমৰ সৰল জীৱনৰ উপস্থাপনাই ইয়াক কালোত্তীর্ণ উপন্যাসৰ শাৰীত থিয় কৰাইছে। সুখপাঠ্য উপন্যাসখন এবাৰ পঢ়াৰ পাছত পুনৰবাৰ পঢ়িবৰ বাবে মন যায়। উপন্যাসখনৰ পাতে পাতে পোৱা অনবদ্য সাহিত্যিক ৰসে আমাৰ দৰে সাধাৰণ পাঠককো যুগ যুগ ধৰি অকৰ্ষণ কৰি ৰাখিব , ৰাখিছে ।

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20 books remind us of the rich Assamese literary heritage

1 asimat jar heral seema অসীমত যাৰ হেৰাল সীমা.

2 MAKAM মাকাম 

3 MIRI JIYORI  মিৰি জীয়ৰী

4 ANURADHAR DEKH অনুৰাধাৰ দেশ 

5 SANGLAT FENLA ছাংলট ফেনলা

6 AGHARI ATMAR KAHINI অঘৰী আত্মাৰ কাহিনী 

7 NIL PRAJAPATI নীল প্ৰজাপতি 

8 ANTARIP অন্তৰীপ  

9 SON HARINAR CHENKUR সোণ হৰিণৰ চেঁকুৰ 

10 YARUINGAM ইয়াৰুইঙ্গম

11 MERENG মেৰেং 

12 BARDOWANI বৰদোৱানী

13:-MORO EATA SAPON ASE মোৰো এটা সপোন আছে 

14:-SUGANDHI POKHILA সুগন্ধি পখিলা 

15 BHAKTA PRAHLAD ভক্ত প্ৰহ্লাদ 

16 MOUNA OUNTH MUKHAR HRIDAY মৌন ওঁঠ মুখৰ হৃদয় 

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17 MAHARATHI মহাৰথী 

18 SAHEBPURAR BOROSHUN চাহেবপুৰাৰ বৰষুণ 

19 BURHI AAIR SADHU বুঢ়ী আইৰ সাধু 

20:-DEO LANGKHUI দেও লাংখুই 

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Some classic Assamese books you should consider are:

• "Mamare Dhara Tarowal Aru Dukhan Upanyasa" by Indira Goswami
• "Juli" by Lakshmi Nandan Bora
• "Pothar Dhoroni" by Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya
• "Pratipad" by Arupa Patangia Kalita

Prominent authors in Assamese literature include:

• Indira Goswami
• Lakshmi Nandan Bora
• Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya
• Arupa Patangia Kalita
• Homen Borgohain

Yes, several Assamese books have been translated into English, making them accessible to a broader audience. For example:

• "The Moth Eaten Howdah of the Tusker" by Indira Goswami
• "Blossoms in the Graveyard" by Arupa Patangia Kalita

Assamese books can be purchased from:

• Online bookstores like Amazon and Flipkart
• Local bookstores in Assam
• Specialized websites for regional literature

Common themes in Assamese literature include:

• Social issues and reforms
• Cultural and traditional narratives
• Historical events and their impacts
• Personal and emotional journeys

Contemporary Assamese authors to explore include:

• Anuradha Sharma Pujari
• Dhruba Hazarika

Yes, there are several literary festivals and events celebrating Assamese literature, such as:

• Guwahati Literary Festival
• North East Book Fair
• Assam Literature Festival

To learn more about Assamese literature, you can:

• Join literary groups or book clubs focused on Assamese literature
• Follow Assamese literature blogs and websites
• Attend literary festivals and events
• Explore Assamese literature courses and workshops

Yes, notable Assamese poetry collections include:

• "Sagar Dekhisa" by Debakanta Baruah
• "Duror Jatra" by Hiren Bhattacharyya

Must-read Assamese books for children include:

• "Burhi Aair Xadhu" (Grandmother’s Tales) by Lakshminath Bezbaroa
• "Xahityarathi" series by various authors focusing on Assamese folklore and stories for children
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Assamese literature , body of writings in the Assamese language spoken chiefly in Assam state, India.

Probably the earliest text in a language that is incontestably Assamese is the Prahlada Charitra of the late 13th-century poet Hema Saraswati. Written in a heavily Sanskritized style, it tells the story, from the Vishnu-Purana , of how the mythical prince Prahlada’s faith in Vishnu saved him from destruction and restored the moral order. The first great Assamese poet was Madhava Kandali (14th century), who made the earliest translation of the Sanskrit Ramayana and wrote Devajit , a narrative on Krishna. The bhakti movement brought a great literary upsurge. The most famous Assamese poet of that period was Shankaradeva (1449–1568), whose many works of poetry and devotion are still read today and who inspired such poets as Madhavadeva (1489–1596) to write lyrics of great beauty. Peculiar to Assamese literature are the buranji s, chronicles written in a prose tradition taken to Assam by the Ahom people originally from what is now Yunnan, China. Assamese buranji s date from the 16th century, though the genre appears much earlier in the original Tai language of the Ahom.

One of the first plays to be written in the Assamese language was playwright and lexicographer Hemchandra Barua’s Kaniyar Kirtan (1861; “The Revels of an Opium Eater”), about opium addiction. His plays chiefly addressed social issues. Barua also wrote Bahire Rongsong Bhitare Kowabhaturi (1861; Fair Outside and Foul Within ). Probably the most outstanding among the early modern writers was Lakshminath Bezbarua (1868–1938), who founded a literary monthly, Jonaki (“Moonlight”), in 1889 and was responsible for infusing Assamese letters with 19th-century Romanticism , which had by then begun to fade from Western literature . Later 20th-century writers tried to remain faithful to the ideals expressed in Jonaki . The short story genre flourished in Assamese with notable practitioners such as Mahichandra Bora (1894–1965) and Holiram Deka (1901–63). The year 1940 marked a shift toward psychological narrative, but World War II effectively put an end to literary development in Assam.

When writers resumed after the war, there was a clear break from the past. Also evident among Assamese writers of this period was the influence of Western literature. Perhaps the area of most unexpected growth was the development of the novel . Noteworthy examples of this form include Bina Barua’s Jivanar Batat (1944; “On the Highway of Life”), Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya’s Ali (1960; “Mother”), and Debendra Nath Acharya’s Anya Yug Anya Purus (1970; “Another Decade Another Generation”). The short story remained a popular genre, although writers began to experiment with an aesthetic that reflected the contemporary world. By the start of the 21st century, other new forms of literature such as the travelogue, biography , and literary criticism had also taken hold in Assam.

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An excerpt from Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty’s The Assamese:   A Portrait of a Community

From its linguistic heritage, folklore, cultural expressions, to its political history, journalist sangeeta barooah pisharoty delves into the rich tapestry of assam’s diverse cultures and people in her new book, the assamese: a portrait of a community.

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‘SILY SIKEN’ AND THE ‘X’ FACTOR: THE HISTORY OF ASSAMESE LANGUAGE

On a summer day in 1973, then Assam chief minister Sarat Chandra Sinha visited our tiny town. The occasion had nothing to do with my birth later that evening but it turned out that it had everything to do with the name I would be known by.

Sinha, known to my family, was in Golaghat town of Upper Assam to inaugurate a music school donated by my grandmother in memory of her husband Maheswar Barooah. Since I too happened to be born later that evening, he named me Sangeeta, constructed around the ‘Sangeet’ School he inaugurated. Since then, I have a recurrent problem at hand which I am sure he too had; something akin to the issue that Satyakams, the Sangamitras, the Sanjoys of Assam have or, for that matter, any Assamese whose first name starts with or contains the English alphabet ‘s’. The problem is associated also with those who carry the Assamese surnames Das, Saikia, Sarma, Sarania, Sabhapandit, Sonowal, etc.

Such categories of Assamese forenames and surnames have an inbuilt ‘X’ factor. The consequence of this is that such name-holders pronounce their names in two dissimilar ways across two languages. For those outside Assam, I am S-angeeta (pronounced the way ‘s’ is in English), while being X-ongita for Assamese speakers in keeping with its guttural pronunciation in the vernacular.

This peculiar X pronunciation exists in Assamese because the three commonly used xo alphabets in the language have no correspondent pronunciation in English or Hindi. By the same logic, in transliteration from English to Assamese, the word Assam itself becomes Axom or Oxom when spoken/written in the Assamese language/script. 

Since the Mongoloid and Tibeto-Burman stock of languages spoken in Assam also don’t have the pronunciation xo in them, those who speak such languages by birth often replace it with the nearest pronunciation: ho. Thus, my name may sound like Ho-ngeeta (same as ‘h’ in English) in Assam too.

In phonological terminology, the x or xo is the voiceless guttural velar fricative, arguably a feature that makes Assamese the most distinct amongst the languages spoken in eastern India, or in any Modern Indo-Aryan (MIA) language. Such a pronunciation cannot be found in Sanskrit, or the Magadhi Prakrit from which Assamese is considered to have sprung, along with its sister languages Bengali and Odia.

Turning a finer lens on this particular pronunciation, represented by three alphabets—talupiya xo (শ), modoniya xo (ষ), and dontiya xo (স) in written Assamese—is, therefore, essential here to better comprehend the origin of the language, and its antiquity. To get a better idea of the language, one would also have to draw in the similarities in pronunciation of certain consonants between Assamese and some Indo-European languages. Assamese has, anyway, been termed the easternmost of the Indo-European languages by linguists.

The story goes that after examining Aryan languages like Sanskrit and Persian vis-à-vis the European languages, say, Greek and Celtic, etc., linguists worldwide had arrived at the conclusion that there was a mother language of all of these tongues which they termed Indo-European or Indo-German. Out of that language emerged seven more tongues: Celtic, Teutonic, Lithu-Slav, Latin, Greek, Iranian, and Sanskrit. Most scholars have also opined that Central Asia was the cradle of the Aryans, though some locate their origin in Southern Russia.

Anyhow, with the migration of people from that stretch of land in batches, the language carried by them began to change, simply because a language is never static. Aryan migrants are, therefore, typically divided into two linguistic groups based on those changes that they might have absorbed during their relocation to different corners of the world.

Those who replaced the sound sh (श) with ka (क), such as in Greek, Latin, and Celtic and Teutonic languages, are believed to have migrated towards the west. Those who did the opposite, replacing ka with sh, are believed to have settled in India, Persia, Afghanistan, etc. and thereby became the Indians of Aryan origin, Iranians, Albanians, Tracians, and Slavs. An oftcited example of this change in pronunciation is the Sanskrit word shatam (meaning hundred in English) which is centum in Latin. And it is here that the story of the Assamese language (and also Bengali to an extent) becomes interesting. Assamese linguist Debananda Bharali had pointed out in his 1912 book Axomiya Bhaxar Moulik Bisar (The Basic Tenets of Assamese Language) that certain Assamese words follow the norms noted in the first language group, meaning Latin, Greek, etc. For instance, the Sanskrit shyam  becomes kaam (kaam sorai, a bird) in Assamese; the Sanskrit word dansha becomes Daak, as in snake bite (xape dake) in Assamese. The Greeks call it dankam. This discovery had led Bharali to argue, ‘Such examples in Assamese language could only indicate that even before those who spoke the “centum” language, such as the Greeks, had left their original land, a group of people may have gone out, that was during the Indo-German language period itself, and might have entered the eastern frontiers of India. And, some within that lot are still holding on to their original pronunciation.’

Bharali, a self-taught linguist, offered a number of such words in Assamese in that book, aside from also arguing that ‘k’ in European languages became ‘p’ in Sanskrit but didn’t do so in Assamese. For example, pongu (lame) in Sanskrit is kunga in Assamese; purva (the easterly winds) is kuruwa in Assamese.

There are examples in Assamese which flout yet another norm, that of the Sanskrit ‘d’ becoming ‘j’ in Greek. The Sanskrit word for the Assamese jah is dah. Even Assamese words like ‘boga’ (the colour white, baga in Bengali) have no similarities with Sanskrit but rather with old Slavonic ‘bondo’. Also the word ‘botor’ (weather) in Assamese is ‘wetter’ in German; ‘selek’ (lick in Assamese) is similar to the Icelandic ‘sleikja’ and German ‘schlecken’; the word ‘suka’ (sharp in Assamese) is similar to Old Slavonic ‘socha’. The word ‘uruli’, meaning ululation, contains the Latin equivalent ululo, meaning to howl, and olu-luzo (howl) in Greek. The Assamese word axuro (asura in Sanskrit) is ahura in Zend Avesta, meaning god.

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FILE - Military delegates chat before the closing session of the National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Monday, March 11, 2024. Chinese state media said Thursday, June 13, 2024, that a military history buff found a collection of confidential documents related to the country’s military in a pile of old papers he bought for under $1. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

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The agents seized the books and the military has closed loopholes in the handling of such material, the post says.

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'Makam', The lost Assamese China-town (Book review and review essay)

2012, Asian Ethnicity

'Makam', Rita Chowdhary's acclaimed novel about Indian citizens of Chinese origin who were forcefully exiled out of Northeast India's Assam, incarcerated in detention camps in western India and then deported en masse during the 1962 India-China war, was published nearly a decade ago. I wrote one of the first book reviews of the Assamese novel in the Asian Ethnicity Journal before it was translated into English in 2014. This book review was followed by a review essay (2013) that attempted to historicize the novel in the context of colonial tea plantation frontiers markets in Assam and labor migration between India and China using secondary sources. This review essay was originally written in Mandarin Chinese for a Taiwanese book. It is attached to the review here in its English translation. Although I have not followed up with more research on this incredible history of migration since 2013, a fantastic array of new academic and historical work has since been published on the subject, the latest of which is a new book called 'The Deoliwallahs' by Dilip D'Souza and Joy Ma published in 2019.

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Mr. Hari is a British journalist and the author of “Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits — and Disturbing Risks — of the New Weight Loss Drugs.”

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Artificial photosynthesis of fuels and valuable compounds from CO2 and H2O, as a flawless method, has aroused universal interest. Metal-free catalytic materials with balanced efficiency and stability have rarely been demonstrated. Up to date, emerging carbon-based photocatalysts promise to break the ordeal of extreme environments for catalysts, leading to practical industrial applications. Among them, surface functional group-modified nanodiamonds offer additional possibilities in terms of long-time stability and tunable catalytic activity. In this work, the nature of distinctions in photocatalytic efficacy induced by two varieties of NDs modified with distinct Lewis acid-base functional groups was also systematically investigated. Furthermore, by using a bottom-up approach, amino and carboxyl as typical Lewis acids-bases groups modified nanodiamond (ND)-embedded three-dimensional g-C3N4 (3D CN) are demonstrated to be an impressive metal-free photocatalyst for photosynthetic production of CO. Combining in-situ photoelectrochemical analysis and density functional theory, the mechanism of heterojunction formation between 3D CN and ND modified with different functional groups was elucidated from kinetic and thermodynamic perspectives. The synergistic CO production rate of amino-modified NDs was found to be roughly 1.97 times higher than that of carboxyl-modified NDs. This pioneering work introduces the promising sp3-hybridized ND materials into the photoreduction CO2 systems in terms of surface chemistry, helping to enlighten an improved understanding of this emerging carbon material.

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Nell Irvin Painter’s understanding of America is beautiful and bracing. We should listen.

“I Just Keep Talking” brings together wide-ranging and pointed essays by the author of “The History of White People.”

From the opening sentences of her new collection, “ I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays ,” historian Nell Irvin Painter addresses readers in a voice brimming with knowledge, clarity and, most delightfully, confidence. As she writes, it would have been a terrible thing had she died young, “during the full-blown era of White-male-default segregation, discrimination, and disappearance that wound down only yesterday. I would have disappeared from memory, just another forgotten Black woman scholar, invisible to history and to histography.” And poor readers would have been deprived of her droll wit and self-assured wisdom.

It’s no small thing that in an era filled with grievances based on injuries that are sometimes profound and often perceived, Painter makes it clear that she has not come to this memoir to reclaim a lost or damaged part of herself. She recounts her response to an admirer who once inquired about what she did for healing. “‘Nothing,’ I said. ‘I’m not broken.’ Not broken, but on occasion frustrated, indignant — self-righteously — pissed off with cause, often exhausted, but mostly and permanently grateful for the people who have protected me, mentored me, supported me over so many decades.” This is an invigorating introduction, full of certainty and strength. Painter has moved through her professional life always knowing her worth, never doubting her intelligence and believing that those who might refuse to listen to her insight would be lesser for their decision.

Perhaps it requires a historian to fully grasp the importance — or at least the impact — of telling one’s own story with a certain brio. Painter, 81, is an esteemed historian retired from Princeton University who studied painting later in life, including at the Rhode Island School of Design. (She wrote about that experience in an earlier memoir, “ Old in Art School .”) The essays in “I Just Keep Talking,” which reflect upon the meaning of “Whiteness,” our understanding of enslavement and the power of nuance, among other subjects, are accompanied by her artwork, which sometimes amplifies her words and sometimes stands in their stead. It is a beautiful book. But its power ultimately rests in the sentences, not the pictures.

In some cases, Painter turns her attention to long-ago history, such as the legacy of Sojourner Truth. She informs readers that the 19th-century abolitionist and women’s rights activist did not utter the most famous phrase attributed to her: “Ain’t I a woman?” If Truth had, in fact, asked the question, Painter says, society’s answer would have been “no.” The answer not only would have reflected the circumstances of the times but would have undercut the way in which Truth understood her power and the skill with which she used it.

The Truth sketched by Painter, in an essay from 1994, is more complex than the one who has been reduced to a misattributed slogan. Truth eschewed the trappings of intellectualism and freedom as used by orator Frederick Douglass, and built her “public persona to establish that what had happened to her — her enslavement, rather than her reason — lent her a unique wisdom.”

Painter’s assessment of Truth is searing, sad and deeply revealing to a lay reader. Truth understood a reality of her time, which is that “in the eyes of most nineteenth-century Americans to be both memorable and woman at the same time simply was not possible. Black women’s individual experience had either to be reconstructed as something emblematically Negro — that is, as enslaved — or to be erased.”

As always, understanding our history means understanding ourselves. We carry our history with us: what we’ve learned in textbooks, what has been burnished in familial oral histories and what has been prettied up by politicians. Painter reminds us of history’s complications and subtleties. She encourages civilians — not just activists or academics — to ask all the pertinent questions, even the uncomfortable ones or those that are contrary to our individual politics and preferences.

What did slavery do to those who were in bondage? But also, what did it do to those who enforced it? Painter is insistent in her refusal to cave to the “national hunger for simplifying history.” She is a dogged corrector of the public record. She has even included in this book a letter to the editor she had published in the New Yorker in 2022, in which she carefully disentangles Truth from the famous slogan.

Painter does not limit her sharp critiques to distant ancestors and abolished institutions; she considers still-vibrant personalities and more recent upheavals. She takes us back to the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas in 1991, during which Anita Hill, in the pre-#MeToo era, testified to Thomas’s sexual harassment of her. Painter highlights the way in which Thomas forced Hill into the role of spoiler of circumstances that were not yet a fait accompli.

“In a struggle between himself and a woman of his same race, Thomas executed a deft strategy,” Painter writes. “He erected a tableau of White-Black racism that allowed him to occupy the position of the race . By reintroducing concepts of White power, Thomas made himself into the Black person in his story. Then, in the first move of a two-step strategy, he cast Anita Hill into the role of Black woman as traitor to the race .”

Painter continues: “The most common formula expressing minority status is ‘women and Blacks.’ As the emblematic woman is White and the emblematic Black is male, Black women generally are not as easy to comprehend symbolically.”

The racial and gender dynamics that were evident during that 20th-century Shakespearean drama continue to resonate in this century. Black music mogul Sean Combs faces accusations of harassment and violence by women over whom he wielded power. Thomas remains a controversial figure, facing scrutiny over his ethics on the bench and questions about potential conflicts of interest . And Hill has become a revered standard-bearer of a new generation of women who have spoken their truth under daunting circumstances, including Christine Blasey Ford during the 2018 confirmation hearings of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.

History simply refuses to remain in the past.

Painter is also the author of “The History of White People” (2010), an exploration of how and why certain individuals were sorted into that racial category. Its sweeping audacity left some observers bemused, not by what it said about our construction of race but by the skin color of the woman who wrote it. Painter has swagger. And in this memoir, she takes advantage of all the privileges of a historian to take an arm’s-distance look at a people, not just those who look like her . She explains Whiteness and how the concept politically evolved during the presidency of Donald Trump .

Whiteness had always been the default, the standard against which all others were measured. Social and political acceptability were based on how closely one hewed to the White ideal. To claim Whiteness as an identity, however, was problematic, because those who did so were white nationalists and supremacists. They were members of the Ku Klux Klan. White pride was a political hand grenade.

“What the time of Trump does for us now is make White Americans visible as raced Americans, as raced counterparts to Black Americans. Long-standing assumptions — that only non-Whites have racial identities, that White Americans are individuals who only have race if they’re Nazis or White nationalists — those assumptions no longer hold,” Painter writes in an essay from 2018. “I’m turning the glass around to focus on what living in a slave society did to non-Black Americans and to the society as a whole.”

Painter puts muscle and heart into history so that her readers can easily, but thoughtfully, draw the lines between past and present. Her history is inclusive, not in a pandering or self-consciously correct way, but because her artful telling of it is full of complexity that’s both beautiful and bracing.

“Once we can write the words ‘trauma’ and ‘slavery’ in the same sentence, we will have enriched our understanding of slavery’s human costs, for enslaved, enslavers, and bystanders,” she writes.

In her memoir, Painter offers an intellectual history of herself, but also a history of us. We’re lucky that she continues to talk. What she has to say can help us more fully understand ourselves — but only if we’re willing to listen.

I Just Keep Talking

A Life in Essays

By Nell Irvin Painter

Doubleday. 418 pp. $35

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