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13 Jan

  The Thân or Sattra institution is a living heritage bequeathed to the posterity by Srimanta Sankaradeva (1449 AD - 1568 AD). Unlike most heritages, which are long dead, the Thân or Sattra institution continues to be a vibrant one. Earlier, it was known only as Thân....

07:23 / Art / Assam / Assam History / Culture / Economics / Heritage / Literature / Music / Religion / Sankaradeva
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10 Nov

  The holy land of Bharatavarsha, a wider concept than the present-day India, has seen emergence of many saints and reformers over the milleniums. But there have been very few who have revolutionized the entire socio-economic scenario of their respective regions together with religious movements, like...

16:10 / Assam / Assam History / Culture / Economics / Religion / Sankaradeva
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25 Oct

Srimanta Sankaradeva (1449-1568 AD) was an unprecedented genius in the annals of world history, as he contributed many original works to the humanity. His creations are now parts of our common heritage. One such heritage is the Sattra institution. In his time, it was known...

15:31 / Assam / Assam History / Culture / Development / Economics / Political Science / Religion / Sankaradeva
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13 Feb

Srimanta Sankaradeva (1449-1568 AD) was an important personality in the annals of history. He was not only a religious preceptor, but also a social reformer, who sanskritized the ethnic groups of the volatile North East India and assimilated them with the national main-stream of Bharatavarsha...

16:00 / Art / Assam / Assam History / Culture / Education / Literature / Music / Religion / Sankaradeva
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26 Nov

Assam had a rich tradition of Assamese folk theatrical elements, though not exactly full-fledged theatre, for several milleniums. Full-fledged Assamese theatre came into being in the medieval times. In fact there had been no full-fledged theatre in any modern Indian languages at all before the...

07:21 / Art / Assam / Assam History / Culture / Literature / Music / Religion / Sankaradeva
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