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Traditional narrative about an ungrateful son

Description: This is a story of an ungrateful boy who leaves his parents in search of a job. He returns home with his friend one day and introduces his mother as a working woman; the mother cries a lot, the boy gets back to job and dies. Dialect: Sanzari
Date: February 3, 2009
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional narrative about the daughter and the sparrow

Description: This is a traditional story of a daughter and sparrow birds. The daughter tries to send away the birds from the rice field by singing a song, but hears an absurd voice. She fell in love with a boy disguised as a snake, got married, and became rich. Seeing this, a neighbor followed the same, got her daughter married to a real snake, but was eaten up. Dialect: Sanzari
Date: February 3, 2009
Duration: 6 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional narrative about the old man and the sesame

Description: This is a traditional story of an old man who went to get some sesame from a nearby market but forgot the Assamese word of it on the way. In the market, his friend helped him to get sesame. He also picked up a mirror but left it on the way while resting. A boy got it and used for the first time, took his own face to be his deceased father's. Always looked in the mirror, remembered his father more and more, became indifferent to his wife. The wife suspected that he always looked another woman in… more
Date: February 3, 2009
Duration: 8 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Aijw swlwngthaini gwnangthi

Description: A souvenir of the reception committee of the 36th Annual conference of Bodo Sahitya Sabha/DDC, held at Barnagaon High school, Odalguri on 06-08 Jan. 2005, and an article on the important of women's education.
Date: August 1, 2005
Creator: Boro, Kiran
Partner: UNT College of Information
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