Assamese fiction | The Antonym

The Downtown— Prasanta Kr. Das

Sep 20, 2023 | Fiction | 0 |

TRANSLATED FROM THE ASSAMESE BY HARSITA HIYA In the beginning God created the heavens and...

Nose— Swati Hazarika

Jan 28, 2023 | Fiction | 0 |

Translated from the Assamese by Anindita Kar There’s something about the appearance...

Gilbertson’s Feet— Anuradha Sharma Pujari

Dec 10, 2022 | Fiction | 0 |

Translated from the Assamese by Harsita Hiya Sa… On arriving to meet with a...

Friendless— Manoj Kumar Goswami

Nov 12, 2022 | Fiction | 0 |

Translated from the Assamese by Harsita Hiya On the way home from the office that evening,...

Nights at Baghe Island— Apurba Sarma

Sep 28, 2022 | Fiction | 0 |

Translated from the Assamese by Anindita Kar The main stem of the river runs south of Baghe...

Toadstool— Apurba Kumar Saikia

Aug 28, 2022 | Fiction | 0 |

Translated from the Assamese by Anindita Kar Where there is paddy there are weeds; a patch of...

The Beauty Parlor – Arupa Patangia Kalita

Jul 16, 2022 | Fiction | 0 |

Translated from the Assamese by Ranjita Biswas Eva. Short, rather meaningless, a name given without much thought. The person who bears this name does not have anything to set her apart from the milieu. She is one among the...

Blindness – Prasanta Kumar Das

Apr 4, 2022 | Fiction | 2 |

Translated from the Assamese by Anindita Kar In the beginning, was the music, and the music was with God, and the music was God. Among the handful of people who managed to arrive at this barren desert located in the far West,...

Endless – Manoj Kumar Goswami

Jan 29, 2022 | Fiction | 0 |

Translated from the Assamese by Ranjita Biswas. “Haraprasad, give me a packet of cigarette”Once a week Anadi buys a packet of cigarette from this corner stall selling paan of areca nut wrapped in betel leaf, and other...

Immersion – Arupa Patangia Kalita

Nov 22, 2020 | Fiction | 1 |

We spent our working lives in a hill town. It was only last year when we commenced our careers we bade goodbye to the highlands. We lived joyfully, in a little house that we built on a small hillock in this lush green land. ...