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Seminar on in Assamese literature at J B College

Dr Prafulla Bora

As a part of year long mission of Swarnalipi for the promotion of reading and quality writing a state level seminar was held at Jagannath Barooah College, Jorhat titled Present Trends in Assamese Literature recently. The seminar was chaired and inaugurated by Dr. Bimal Borah, Principal of the College and attended by galaxy of young writers and eminent academicians. At the beginning the seminar was started with poetry read out by eminent poets Ajit Gogoi, Mridul Barua, Ranjit Gogoi and Ujjal Paogam. The academic session was started with research paper presented by Professor Akash Dipta Thakur of Department of Physic, J B College on the subject Significances in the selected Prose writings of Dr. Bhabendranath Saikia. While sharing his views he dealt with the nuances of Dr. Saikia’s selected short stories, dramas and three screen plays.

Participating as the resource person, eminent writer critic and former Head of Assamese in DKD College Dergaon, Professor Prafulla Chandra Bora gave stress on the narrative beauty of the great authors like Dr. Saikia and explained the urge of research approaches among the new scholars and the role of research magazines like Swarnalipi which deals literary and socio-cultural research aspects in motivating and focusing them properly.

He also commented that if this kind of evaluating new dimension in the literature of great authors like Dr. Saikia, Syed Abdul Malik, Chandra Kotoky etc. remains as a responsibility to the young researchers, the Assamese literature will be enriched to a great extent. He also gave valuable remarks on the research papers presented by Professor Dr. Jyotirekha Hazarika, Professor Papumoni Hazarika and Panchanan Hazarika who dealt with the subjects Poetry of Chandra Kotoky, Historical Realism in the novels of Rita Choudhury and Recreative trends in Assamese Literature respectively.

Earlier the Editor of Swarnalipi, Hridayananda Gogoi explained the objectives taken by the magazine in promoting a platform for research and valued observations made by young writers throughout the state and expressed satisfaction received so far from the researchers in J B College, Sonari College, Hemchandra Deb Goswami College, JDSG College etc. Interacting the seminar papers Dr. Manik Saikia, Associate Professor of J B College and present president of Xodou Axom Kavi Xanmileen, gave emphasis on the minute observations of Dr. Bhabendranath Saikia, post-evaluation of historic Axom Agitation, tendency of recreation, poetry of Chandra Kotoky etc. and urged the presenters to glorify their themes properly.

The Principal of the College Dr. Bimal Borah, who inaugurated the seminar, said in his speech that the initiatives taken by the Swarnalipi is unique of this kind and it would be adequate to generate, focus and to spread the conscience for quality writing and reading habit among the new generations and students in particular. The students get enough materials from this kind of academic seminars, discussions, symposia etc. and his college has always been a part of it, he said. But the research papers presented in the seminar should be of the high quality and up to the mark, Dr. Borah opined. Former Head of the Department, Professor Dr. Binapani Devi gave an analytical report on the subjects in concerned papers and urged the presenters to be very simple and thorough on the subjects. The Head of the Department of Assamese, Dr. Rubi Mahanta, who also took the initiatives in organizing the seminar, offered vote of thanks and solicited further co-operations from the magazine in future. The seminar was beautifully moderated with poetry by Dr. Jyotirekha Hazarika, Associate Professor of the Department.

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