Asom Barta

January 23 was probably the most important day in the professional life of Deepi Rekha Kouli, the Director of Archaeology, Assam. It was on this day she got to know that something...

Scene1: It is 7pm. Bhumila Kharai of Bormarjongbor in West Karbi Anglong district is inspecting one last time her produce: ginger, chillies, and turmeric meant for the Jonbeel Mela. She is planning...

New Year is a good time for reflection and a fresh departure. Although it is more an academic exercise in one sense, yet because it marks the end of a calendar year,...

Today Climate Change is an international emergency affecting lives, livelihoods, the economy, and our sustenance. Evidence of observed changes in extremes such as heatwaves, heavy precipitation, droughts, and tropical cyclones, and, in...

Pranab Jyoti Talukdar from Patsala in Bajali district, and Devraj Singha from Borguri in Tinsukia town were gainfully employed in the corporate world away from their native towns when a chance meeting...

The MLA of the 56 No. Kamalpur Legislative Assembly constituency believes it is among the people that one can find the true meaning of politics. That is precisely why Diganta Kalita, the...

As and when Martina Kashyap drives her scooter across her village Korora, what she will leave behind for others to look at is her merit. She is a proud beneficiary of a...

Mamu Bora of Nagaon was a constable with the Virangana wing of the Assam Police. She was hooked to music and dance from a very tender age although she could never hone...

Shyam Sundar Kalita (61), a former employee of Guwahati Refinery under Indian Oil Corporation Ltd and a resident of Jyotinagar area in Guwahati, had long been thinking of ways and means to...