Dear all, A good news share! One of the masterpieces of Assamese literature 'Namghoxa' by Mohapurux Madhabdev is now freely available on the web as unicode. The URL is - http://www.xahitya.org/2012/06/15/namghoxa/
This splendid work has been single handedly done by Pratim Pratap Baruah a Delhi based Assamese Engineer. He has also edited the recent version of http://www.xahitya.org/, A unique Platform for Assamese Unicoded Literature on the web. This has also been deposited to Wiki Sources (http://wikisource.org/wiki/Category:নামঘোষা) . This conversion into UNICODE would undoubtedly be a monumental achievement in the annals of Assamese literature and a most significant milestone in the history of UNICODE conversion. It would also greatly aid Sankaradeva studies since researchers will now be able to perform searches across the text and perform other activities such as lexicographical, indexing, semantic search and concordance-related, etc with effortless ease. The members of the Facebook group Axomiyat Kotha Botora, from around the globe have also volunteered to convert another landmark masterpiece of Assamese literature 'Kirtan' by Mohapurux Srimanta Sankardev. We are working to make it freely available on the web. Members of the group have already converted around 800 songs of Sudhakontho Bhupen Hazarika to Assamese unicode, which will also be made available to public soon. Link to the Facebook group অসমীয়াত কথা-বতৰা https://www.facebook.com/groups/axomiyakothabotora/ Link to a theme song of the group http://youtu.be/5O5MTvsYdbA Regards, -- Pankaj Barah Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU), Realfagbygget, Room no.: DU1-172 N-7491, Trondheim,Norway Telephone: (+47) 73596093 (Office) Mobile: (+47) 45063435 E.mail: pankaj.ba...@bio.ntnu.no Homepage:http://sites.google.com/site/pankajborah/ _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
