Assamese Literature in New Media An Introduction

The role of the Internet among people's live increased dramatically after the last decade of the nineteenth century. Nowadays Internet has an outstanding impact on each and every dimension of human society including literature. As a consequence of the impact of new media some new trend in literature emerged, a new era of literature based on new media developed and spread in a different way. After the invention of Unicode by Unicode consortium, the path of this new era is opened for the regional languages. New Software's are developed and content in regional language are able to occupy a place for their own on the internet including the Assamese Language. Assamese literature and culture deeply influenced by this movement from the beginning of the twenty first century. This paper tries to give an overview of new media based Assamese Literature. Jyotishman Das "Assamese Literature in New Media: An Introduction" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-4 , June 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd25162.pdf