Assam Valley Literary Award announced
Williamson Magor Education Trust, the sponsor of the Assam Valley Literary Award, has announced the names of three luminaries of Assamese literature for the 2017 Assam Valley Literary
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Sahitya Akademi Award winning Assamese novelist Rita Chowdhury has urged Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi to allow the “Assamese people of Chinese origin,” who were “deported” to China after the 1962 India-China war, to visit their relatives and friends at Makum, a small town in upper Assam's Tinsukia district.
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Rita Chowdhury talks about the making of her novel “Makam”, which pulls the lid off the State-sponsored persecution of Assamese Chinese during the 1962 war
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On the last night of the Indo-China War in 1962, the Indian government deported thousands of residents of Indo-Chinese origin from Makum, in Upper Assam. Assamese author Dr Rita Chowdhury met with their descendants to relive the true story, in her non-fiction read, MakamNational panel with eminent authors
See MoreAward Winning Assamese writer Rita Chowdhury to speak at Jaipur Literary Festival
Award Winning Assamese writer Rita Chowdhury, is set to be a speaker at the Jaipur Literary Festival this year.
Visit WebsiteTragedy in translation
Sahitya Akademi award winner Rita Chowdhury narrates an epic saga of almost unrelieved pain and anguish, spanning more than a century and several continents. Newly translated into english from the original Bengali, the searing account of this injustice leaves you emotionally and mentally drained.”
Visit Website'Chinatown Days' review: How the Indian state betrayed a minority of its people
Chowdhury has channelled the histories of four generations of Chinese-Assamese immigrants who had made themselves a home in the town of Makam in a remote
Visit WebsiteAaj Savere - An interview with Rita Chowdhury, Author, Director National Book Trust
Aaj Savere - An interview with Rita Chowdhury, Author, Director National Book Trust
Read FeatureThis novel is the untold tragic history of Chinese settlers in Assam (and of love and separation)
Rita Chowdhury’s novel ‘Chinatown Days’ recounts the toll of a war on people whom neither China nor India wanted.
Read AnalysisSahitya Akademi — Annual Report 2023–24
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National wire coverage — quoted as Sahitya Akademi award-winning author
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Glowing review of Chinatown Days — "Rita Chowdhury proves more than equal to the task"
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Bangladesh FM praises her novel — international recognition
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