Brahmaputra litfest to focus on Assam’s cultural icons

GUWAHATI

Two of Assam’s tallest taste icons, Bhupen Hazarika and Zubeen Garg, volition beryllium the absorption of the 2nd variation of the Brahmaputra Literature Festival to beryllium held from February 6 to 8 successful 2026.

Adharxila Trust, a non-profit organisation focused connected the literate and taste practice of India’s northeastern region, said the lit festival volition beryllium held successful eastbound Assam’s Sivasagar municipality aft a bid of events elsewhere successful the State, including a curtain-raiser successful occidental Assam’s Gauripur.

The inaugural festival was portion of the past World Book Fair successful New Delhi. The Sivasagar edition, themed ‘A Confluence of Rhythm, World, and Spirit – Celebrating the Voice of Humanity’, volition beryllium the archetypal to beryllium held successful the State.

“The Brahmaputra is not simply a river; it is simply a metaphor for humanity — vast, inclusive, timeless, and musical,” author, festival director, and main trustee of Adharxila Trust, Rita Chowdhury, said connected Sunday (December 14, 2025).

“The upcoming lawsuit volition beryllium an immersive three-day acquisition involving music, poetry, cinema, and oral traditions of creation and culture. The taxable reflects the committedness towards honouring the region’s creator soul, portion gathering bridges crossed nations, languages, and cultures,” Ms. Chowdhury said.

A large portion of the lit festival would beryllium devoted to Bhupen Hazarika successful solemnisation of his commencement centenary, and to Zubeen Garg, whose decease successful Singapore connected September 19 triggered a wide outpouring of grief successful Assam, Ms. Chowdhury said.

The gross generated from her peculiar uncut interrogation with Garg would beryllium fixed for 20 years to money budding artistes successful Assam, she said.

The spotlight of the lit festival would beryllium connected tribal practice and indigenous storytelling traditions, particularly those of the Bodo and Mishing communities, Ms. Chowdhury further said.