Assam Culture

National Award-winning filmmaker Rima Das’s Village Rockstars, an Assamese-language feature, was the first film from Assam which was selected as India’s official entry for the best foreign language film category of the 2019 Academy (Oscar) Awards.

The logo of the Assam Sahitya Sabha was designed by Jugal Das, according to the source.

Kaviraj Chakravarty is regarded in the source as the greatest poet of the Ahom period and is associated with the literary tradition of that era.

Lakshminath Bezbaroa is honoured by a unique title on 29 December 1931, 'Roxoraj' by Asam Sahitya Sabha in 1931 at Sibsagar session.

Nirmal Prabha Bordoloi won Sahitya Akademi Award in the year 1983 for her book Sudirgha Din Aru Ritu, which is a collection of poetry.

Miri Jiyori (1894) was Rajanikanta Bordoloi’s first novel. Bordoloi is popularly known as Upanyas Samrat ('Emperor of the Novel') for his contribution to Assamese fiction.

Pimpara Gosowa was composed by Madhavdeva, not Sankardeva. Sankardeva authored works such as Gunamala and Rukmini Haran.

Me-Dam-Me-Phi is an important Ahom ancestral-worship festival observed on 31 January. It reflects the traditional religious heritage of the Ahom community.

The Poa-Mecca mosque/dargah at Hajo is traditionally associated with Giyasuddin Aulia; the mosque is attributed in the source to Sujauddin Muhammad Shah. Hajo is a major multi-faith pilgrimage centre.

Nurul Amin was the first Assamese to become president of the Indian Football Association. He was also an important political figure and served as Chief Minister of Assam from 1957–1970.

Kopou Phul (foxtail orchid, Rhynchostylis retusa) is the state flower of Assam. The source gives its adoption date as 4 April 2003; the flower is strongly associated with Assamese spring and Bihu traditions.

Jahnu Barua directed Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai in 1987. The Assamese film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film and is a landmark of Assamese parallel cinema.

The Hayagriva Madhava Temple stands on Monikut Hill at Hajo in Kamrup district. It is associated with Vishnu in the Hayagriva-Madhava form and has a distinctive multi-faith historical setting.

Madhavdeva wrote Dadhi Mathan, Chordhara and Pimpara Guchowa. He was the principal disciple and successor of Srimanta Sankardeva in Assam's Neo-Vaishnavite movement.

Bodo is the largest tribal/ethnolinguistic community among the options in Assam. The Bodo people belong to the wider Bodo-Kachari ethnolinguistic family.

Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005 for Mauna Outh Mukhar Hriday. He is an important writer from Arunachal Pradesh whose work represents North-Eastern literary traditions.

The Navagraha Temple is located on Chitrasal Hill in Guwahati. It is associated with the worship of the nine celestial bodies (Navagraha).

Statement 3 is incorrect because Miri Jiyori was not the first Assamese novel. Bhanumati by Padmanath Gohain Barua is generally regarded as the first Assamese novel, published in 1890.

Dainik Batori is identified in the source as the first Assamese daily newspaper, beginning publication on 12 August 1935. It was published from the Thengal Bhawan area near Jorhat.

Dr. Miles Bronson compiled the first major Assamese dictionary, published in 1867 from the American Baptist Mission Press at Sivasagar. It was important in standardizing Assamese vocabulary and orthography.