A one-day international conference on literature, translation, and technology was organised jointly by the Departments of English and Assamese under the aegis of the IQAC-DC on Friday at the Dispur.
Lakshmi Nandan Bora: A Stalwart Of Assamese Literature Who Will Remain Forever Young
As the editor of Goriyoshi , a monthly magazine, Lakshmi Nandan Bora guided and published a generation of writers in Assamese.
Lakshmi Nandan Bora. Photo: President s Secretariat, GODL-India/Wikimedia Commons
Lakshmi Nandan Bora is no more.
I met him only once, in 2009 or 2010, as an undergraduate student at the University of Delhi visiting the authorâs home for an interview for
Janma, an Assamese magazine that some of us used to bring out during those days. He spoke to us â kids of little consequence and importance â for hours with a warmth and intimacy that, later, not only reflected in the pages of the magazine but also kept us beholden.
And finally, she had to succumb to that dreadful disease savaging the earth after a tough fight with it for four months and ten days, she finally breathed her last on 17th of May 2021 at 1.55 AM.
Lakshmi Nandan Bora. File
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R.V. Moorthy
He was the first to be awarded a doctoral degree in meteorology by the Andhra University
Noted Assamese litterateur and Padma Shri awardee Lakshmi Nandan Bora passed away at a private hospital in Guwahati on Thursday. He was 91.
Suffering from ailments associated with old age, he was admitted to the hospital more than a week ago after he tested positive for COVID-19.
Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi and Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma mourned the death of the writer whose novel
Patal Bhairavi fetched him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1988.
“His death has left a void in the Assamese literary world,” former Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said.
Is there such a thing as Indian Science Fiction? This book tries to identify some common elements
Although it covers works in only four languages, Suparno Banerjee’s ‘Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybridity’ is certainly a milestone. An image from Appupen s Legends of Halahala .
There has been a rising interest in Indian Science Fiction in recent years, with a number of critical studies and articles being published. Suparno Banerjee’s book,
Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybridity, marks a key milestone in this trend.
An attempt to critically analyse the history and structure of Indian Science Fiction is not an easy endeavour, with a number of challenges that need to addressed even before proceeding.