Nirupama Borgohain News Today

An excerpt from ‘The Assamese: A Portrait of a Community,’ by Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty.

The ceremony for conferring the degree took held in Borgohains home in Guwahati.

Vice President of India, Jagdeep Dhankhar, said that the Northeast is emerging as ‘the land of opportunities’, and the growth of India will remain incomplete without growth and the contribution of...

Chandrapriya and her sister Rameswari braved the angry Rain God and marched towards their school, lifting their Mekhelas up to the knee - an unstoppable desire

Noted litterateur and veteran journalist Homen Borgohain, who had returned his Sahitya Akademi Award in protest against growing intolerance in the country, passed away at a private hospital here on Wednesday morning a few days after testing negative for Covid-19. Widely considered the voice of the downtrodden and a conscience-keeper of the society for his writings, Borgohain, suffered a fall on Tuesday night and was rushed to the hospital where he was declared dead at 6.58am. He had tested Covi...

GUWAHATI: Eminent Assamese litterateur and journalist Homen Borgohain died at a hospital in Guwahati on Wednesday, following post-Covid complications, doctors said. He was 89 and survived by two sons. He has been separated from his wife Nirupama Borgohain, also a noted litterateur and journalist, for several years. Borgohain was found to be Covid-positive on April 24 and admitted to the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital, from where he was released on May 7 after testing negative. He fell f...

Top Assamese litterateur Homen Borgohain dies at 89 after post-Covid complications ​ By IANS | ​ 2 Views Top Assamese litterateur Homen Borgohain dies at 89 after post-Covid complications Image Source: IANS News Top Assamese litterateur Homen Borgohain dies at 89 after post-Covid complications Image Source: IANS News Top Assamese litterateur Homen Borgohain dies at 89 after post-Covid complications Image Source: IANS News Guwahati, May 12 : Sahitya Akademi awardee, renowned litterateur Ho...

Highlights Out of 39 writers, who announced to return their awards, 26 did not return their souvenirs, only 13 returned their mementos The four authors neither returned their memento nor their prize money, but returned merely their award Only 13 authors returned both money and souvenirs, while 35 out of 39 scholars have made an offer to return the prize money through cheques to the Sahitya Akademi New Delhi: When Narendra Modi became Prime Minister after the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the countr...