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The Assam Review

Film, music, books, interviews and writing from across Assam and the Northeast.

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Poetry Classic

অ’জিমাণ্ডিয়াছ

"Ozymandias" is one of Percy Bysshe Shelley's most celebrated sonnets. Through the image of a ruined statue in the desert, the poem explores the transience of power, the inevitability of time, and the futility of human pride.

Priyanuj Kalita 13 July 2026

Literature Writers of Northeast India

"No One Else Can Tell Your Story": Janice Pariat in Conversation with Ananya Hiloidari

On growing up between the plains of Assam and the hills of Shillong, leaving home in order to return to it, and why her fiction keeps pushing back against the human urge to put life into boxes — the author of Everything the Light Touches speaks with Ananya Hiloidari, who translated the novel.

2 July 2026

Gender and Feminism Migration and Human Rights

Exploring Gender, Migration, and Culture: A Conversation with Prof. Moushumi Basu

The JNU scholar on why critical thinking must begin with a mind without fear, why feminism is a lived experience rather than a theory, and why India needs a more humane — and more imaginative — approach to migration.

2 July 2026

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অকস্মাৎ অৰণ্যৰ মাজৰ ৰে'ল আলিয়েদি দ্রুত গতিৰে এখন ৰে'ল চলিব ধৰিলে। অৰণ্যৰ মাজৰপৰা হাতে হাত ধৰি দৌৰি অহা নায়ক-নায়িকাৰ মুখকেইখনত আতংকৰ চিন স্পষ্ট। অকস্মাৎ আবিৰ্ভাৱ হোৱা ৰে'লখন দেখি

Priyanuj Kalita 2 July 2026

অসমীয়া কিতাপ Assamese Books

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Pinocchio

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Clarissa or The history of a young lady

₹792.00

Dangerous Liaisons

₹364.00

Poonachi by Perumal Murugan

₹229.00

Julie, or the New Heloise

₹321.00

Gulliver’s Travels

₹120.00

The Annihilation of Caste (Speech) by B.R. Ambedkar

₹200.00

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