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The oath, administered by President Md Abdul Hamid, was held at the Bangabhaban at 11am. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, retired Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain and other previous chief justices were present at the ceremony. The government appointed Justice Sinha to the office last Monday. Justice Sinha, the most senior Appellate Judge in the Supreme Court, succeeds Justice Md Muzammel Hossain who retired on Jan 16. He is the 21st head of judiciary in Bangladesh and the first non-Muslim to hold the top position in this Muslim-majority country. He hails from the minority Bishnupriya Manipuri community. Justice Sinha was on the Appellate Bench that heard the 13th Amendment appeal and scrapped the provision for caretaker government to oversee general elections. He was also part of the bench that heard the 2009 appeals in the Bangabandhu Murder Case and has been an appeals judge in the ongoing war crimes trials. He will be...

Agartala, Feb. 17 (ANI): The Bishnupriya Manipuri community recently organized a seminar-cum-cultural programme at the Muktadhara Auditorium here with the goal of rejuvenating their diminishing culture. The two-day programme, which was organized by the Socio-Cultural Society of Bishnupriya Manipuri, was inaugurated by Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar in the presence of the state's Cultural Affairs Minister Bhanu Lal Saha. The main focus of the programme was to generate awareness among the younger generation about the community's rich cultural heritage. Chief Minister Sarkar assured the community of government's help in preserving their culture and language. "For the development of socio-culture, language and education, you people have taken new initiative, and if you need any help from our side, then without any hesitation, please discuss it with us. We, with our limited resources, shall try our best to help you people in your goal for preserving y...

April 20, 2015 GUWAHATI, April 19 – A multilingual poets’ meet was organised at the Guwahati Press Club here at 3 pm today, a press release said. A number of poets who write in different languages like Bishnupriya Manipuri, Assamese, Bengali, Hindi, Mising, Rajasthani, Punjabi, Rabha, Boro and Hajong, attended the meet. Lakshmindra Sinha, president of the Writers’ Forum presided over the meet. He warmly welcomed and greeted the poets and audience on behalf of the Forum and presented a brief outline on Bishnupriya Manipuri poetry. Well-known poetess of the State Mira Thakur, conducted the meet and poet Kapurchand Jain delivered the inaugural speech. The multilingual poets’ meet was organised in view of the completion of five years of the Bishnupriya Manipuri Writers’ Forum since its inception in 2009 and also to celebrate Cherou or Bishu festival of the Bishnupriya Manipuri community. It was aimed at fostering a sense of brotherhood among the poets of different lan...

Aug 9, 2015 Guwahati: The National Book Trust would make a concerted effort to revive languages of the northeast that are facing the threat of extinction, said newly-appointed director of the organization and noted writer Rita Choudhury on Saturday. On the measures planned by NBT to save NE languages that are dying, the director said NBT would lay emphasis on it on the basis of priority after carefully considering all factors. UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger has listed more than five NE languages as vulnerable, definitely endangered, severely endangered, critically endangered and extinct.  Unesco's list is based on the extent of endangerment and on intergenerational language transmission. A language is vulnerable when it is spoken mostly by children but only at their homes. It is endangered when it no longer enjoys the status of mother tongue. It is severely endangered if it is only spoken by elder generations. Critically endangered m...

From our Special Correspondent SILCHAR, September 18: 85 Bishnupriya Manipuri language teachers of various schools in Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi districts, who were not receiving their salaries for the last 27 months since the very date of their joining, have at last been relieved. On the sustained persuasion of Bishnupriya Manipuri Language LP Teachers’ Association, these unfortunate teachers could get their salary in arrears at the fixed rate of Rs 1,800 only per month. After completion of their junior basic training, the Association has been assured by the education authorities concerned that the teachers would get their full salary and other benefits.  At a general conference of the Association held here recently presided over by its president Prabir Rajkumar, one of the resolutions adopted, the teachers expressed their gratitude to Gopidas Sinha, chief–advisor, for his constant persuasion of their cases and release of the salary of 27 months. Another resolution u...

What makes my mother special The dearest person for me in this world is my mother. She is the soul of our home. My mother is special because she does not lose her temper, and is sympathetic. She is very kind, helpful and above all, she loves me like an angel, serves me like a nurse, and cares for me a lot. My mom always advises me to concentrate on my studies, and improve my behaviour. She helps me with my homework, especially when it comes to languages like Assamese and Hindi. I am lucky to have such a loving and affectionate mother. I am really proud of her. Ritwick Sinha, Class-VII, Don Bosco Sr. Sec. School, Guwahati. Published : Planet Young, The Assam Tribune,  June 6, 2013 My loving father F ather’s Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June every year, to express our heartfelt love and gratitude towards our fathers. We celebrate Father’s Day by gifting them cards, flowers and other gift items. On the occasion of this special day, I am going to write...

From our Correspondent SILCHAR, May 3: With a view to enable a better scope of education for the OBC students, Rajib Locan Pegu, Minister of the Department of Welfare of Plain Tribes and Backward Classes (WPT and BC) laid foundation stone for a hostel here recently. The RCC hostel, worth Rs 2.49 crore, will incorporate 100 boys and girls. While addressing the gathering at Bhubeneswar Sadhu Thakur Sevashram, situated just behind the hostel site, underlined the importance of such hostel in the town for the students belonging to other backward caste. Lauding the efforts of Bishnupriya Manipuri Development Council for taking the initiative to establish the hostel, he said that any community would develop only through education. He pointed out that he would try his best to facilitate development of all the diverse communities of the State for overall development of the State. The minister added that the entire garden blossoms only when each flower blooms. It was his opinion that t...

GUWAHATI, April 13 – The Nua Dristi Sahitya Puraskar-2013 instituted by Nua Dristi Prakashan, will be presented to well-known Bishnupriya Manipuri litterateur and playwright Indrakumar Singha at a function to be held at Guwahati Press Club here on April 16 at 3 pm, according to a press release.  The play Tinhan written by Singha, two books Prashnopanishad and Kathopanishad translated by Dr Binoy Bhushan Singha and Nua Dristi’s own monthly Bishnupriya Manipuri magazine Khuttal will also be released at the same function. Several well-known personalities from the literary world are expected to attend the function, the release added. Courtesy: The Assam Tribune

Verse Naishabdar Buke Mi Chetan Satta by Champalal Sinha Translated and annotated by Ramlal Sinha Late Surachandra Sinha, father of poet Champalal Sinha, did give his own explanations to  around nine to 10 poems of his son. The explanations of some of the poems have been retrieved  so far. ‘In the pull of Eternity’(Anadi anantar akarshane) is one of the poems that had been  explained by late Sinha. Champalal Sinha and his father were complementary even when the son  was just a child insofar as intellectual skill and quality are concerned. It was through his  son, with a gifted power of conception, that late Sinha studied the religious scriptures meant  for sadhaks that he had inherited from his preceptor, Guru (Late) Vidyapati Sinha of  Bangladesh. In the process, the poet acquired knowledge that was generally not expected of a  teenager. Theirs was a cottage redolent of spiritualism with their round-the-clock conscious  breathin...

Verse Naishabdar Buke Mi Chetan Satta by Champalal Sinha Translated and annotated by Ramlal Sinha LATE Surachandra Sinha, father of poet Champalal Sinha, did give his own explanations to  around nine to 10 poems of his son. The explanations of some of the poems have been retrieved  so far. “The Imago” (Chhabihan) is one of the poems that had been explained by Late Sinha.  Poet Champalal Sinha and his father were complementary even when the son was just a child  insofar as intellectual skill and quality are concerned. It was through his son, with a gifted  power of conception, that Late Sinha studied the religious scriptures meant for sadhaks that  he had inherited from his preceptor, Guru (Late) Vidyapati Sinha of Bangladesh. In the  process, the poet acquired knowledge that was generally not expected of a teenager. Theirs was  a cottage redolent of spiritualism with their round-the-clock conscious breathing (the ajapa  ja...

Ramlal Sinha GUWAHATI, Jan 21 At long last, one of the most scholarly Indologists of the nation who had left behind an   oeuvre of around 60 books in English, Assamese, Bengali and Bishnupriya Manipuri on Indian  philosophy and linguistics, Dr Kali Prasad Sinha, was posthumously declared Jatir Janak of the  Bishnupriya Manipuri community on Sunday by as many as five organisations at a function organised on the occasion of his 77th birth anniversary at Dibyasharam in Kachudharam, a  sleepy village on the outskirts of Silchar town where the scholar was born.  Dr Kali Prasad was a Sanskrit professor in Gauhati University, Tripura University and Assam  University. His research paper “A Study on Bishnupriya Manipuri Language” brought him the  Doctor of Philosophy degree from Jadavpur University in 1968. His research work on “Absolute  in Indian Philosophy” brought him D Lit degree from Burdwan University, Calcutta, in 1983. In 1 994, ...

Taken from  Naishabdar Buke Mi Chetan Satta by Champalal Sinha Translated and annotated by Ramlal Sinha Late Surachandra Sinha, father of poet Champalal Sinha, did give his own explanations to around nine to 10 poems of his son. The explanations of some of the poems have been retrieved so far. “The never-dying banyan leaf” (Akshay tritiyar bhatpatahan) is one of the poems that had been explained by late Sinha. Poet Champalal Sinha and his father were complementary even when the son was just a child insofar as intellectual skill and quality are concerned. It was through his son, with a gifted power of conception, that late Sinha studied the religious scriptures meant for sadhaks that he had inherited from his preceptor, Guru (late) Vidyapati Sinha of Bangladesh. In the process, the poet acquired knowledge that was generally not expected of a teenager. Theirs was a cottage redolent of spiritualism with their round-the-clock conscious breathing (the ajapa japa). The poet has ...