An interesting program of Book launch and “Katha Sahitya Manthan” was held under the initiative of Language-Literature-Culture Study Center of Loknayaka Amiya Kumar Das College.
The invited guests were Professor of Assamese Department of Tezpur University, Sanjeev Paul Deka, a talented storyteller of this generation, Professor of Assamese Department of Guwahati University, Poet-storyteller Pranjal Sharma Vasishtha, President of Shonitpur Zilla Sahitya Sabha and prominent writer Bhupen Shaikia and Loknayak Amiya Kumar Das College President, Narrator Yogendra Shaikia. In the first phase, two books were unveiled after Principal Shukdev Adhikari’s welcome speech.
The first is the much-discussed novel ‘ Lodravar Akhepakhe’, is an Assamese translation of one of the most powerful storytellers in modern Bengali literature, Shyamal Bhattacharya’s popular novel ‘ Lodravar Kachakachhi’. Translated by Prof. Shukdev Adhikari, principal of Amiyakumar Das College, The second book is a collection of essays entitled “Folklife of the North-East in Recent Times”. The anthology has been edited by Prof. Jyotsna Barua and Prof. Kantarbhushan Nandy. Literary writer Bhupen Shaikia made a well-thought-out statement about ” Lodravar Akhepakhe’. Orator Yogendra Shaikia discusses research papers.
The second episode titled “Kathashahitya Manthan” revolves around an intimate conversation with storytellers Sanjeev Paul Deka and Pranjal Sharma Vasishtha. In the audience-audience question and answer session with the two storytellers, topics such as the history of Assamese stories, history, dynamics of Bengali literature, future readers and the future of readers come up. The second episode was moderated by Prof. Hari Prasad Barua of Assamese and Prof. Kantarbhushan Nandy of Bangla Department. The three-hour long program was moderated by Professor Arindam Kumar Deka of Assamese Department.
It should be mentioned here that Tripura based writer Shyamal Bhattacharya’s novel ‘Bukhari’, written in the context of the Siachen War, has also been translated into Assamese earlier. Translated by the Acting Principal of Tongla College. Anjali Chakraborty.
The novel has been translated into Hindi, English, Odia, Punjabi, Urdu, Gujarati, Tamil, Santhali, Bodo and Persian etc. Moreover, some of Bhattacharya’s story collections and children’s literature books have also become popular in other Indian languages.
