One of the challenges, she admits, has been to render into English a text written in the Assamese script from a time that is starkly different from the language spoken and written today.
Furthermore, poet Sameer Tanti secured the award for his poetry work "Pharingbore Bator Kotha Jane" in the Assamese language, and Aron Raja received the award for his novel "Swrni Thakhai" in the ...