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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 a fortunate daughter-in-law

Description: This is a story of a newly married daughter-in-law who was fortunate to become rich out of whatever activity she undertakes. Dialect: Sanzari
Date: February 3, 2009
Duration: 25 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of Onla curry

Description: This is a description of how the Boro traditional dish, Onla curry, is prepared, including its ingredients and varieties. Dialect - Standard Boro.
Date: February 7, 2009
Duration: 5 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Narzary, Nareswar
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description about traditional tools, utensils and foods

Description: This is a description about various cooking tools, various dishes that Boros like to eat. Dialect: Standard Boro
Date: February 7, 2009
Duration: 2 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description about traditional way of fishing

Description: This is a description of how fishing is done by the Boros traditionally by using different fishing tools. Dialect: Bwddwn
Date: February 9, 2009
Duration: 2 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of Black Dal curry

Description: This is a description of how the Boro traditional dish, black dal curry with chicken is prepared. Dialect: Standard Boro.
Date: February 7, 2009
Duration: 4 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Narzary, Nareswar
Partner: UNT College of Information

Conversation about 1950s Boro culture

Description: This is a description of the cultural life of the Boros in Kokrajhar during the 1950s. Dialect: Standard Boro
Date: May 8, 2009
Duration: 5 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Brahma, Bihung
Partner: UNT College of Information

Personal narrative about religious faith

Description: This is a narrative about religious belief. Dialect: Standard Boro
Date: May 9, 2009
Duration: 2 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Brahma, Bihung
Partner: UNT College of Information

Personal narrative about Boro society

Description: This is a narrative about personal experience on social systems of past and present. Dialect: Standard Boro
Date: May 9, 2009
Duration: 8 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Brahma, Bihung
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of Bathou religion

Description: This is a narrative about belief system of the Boros. Dialect: Standard Boro
Date: May 9, 2009
Duration: 5 minutes 01 second
Creator: Brahma, Bihung
Partner: UNT College of Information

Personal narrative about early life

Description: This is a personal narrative on ealry life of Mr. Ghana Kanta Basumatary, the first folk song singer to be broadcast on All India Radio, Guwahati. Dialect: Standard Boro
Date: May 8, 2009
Duration: 7 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Brahma, Bihung
Partner: UNT College of Information

Personal narrative about early life

Description: This is a personal narrative about early life. Dialect: Standard Boro
Date: May 8, 2009
Duration: 5 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Brahma, Bihung
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

Conversation and radio broadcast of Boro folk song

Description: This is a folk song along with its background that was first sung and broadcast on All India Radio, Guwahati. Dialect: Standard Boro
Date: May 8, 2009
Duration: 6 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Brahma, Bihung
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description about silk rearing

Description: This is a description about silk rearing and making sticky glue out of rice. Dialect: Standard Boro
Date: May 9, 2009
Duration: 1 minute
Creator: Brahma, Bihung
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description about cooking rice

Description: This is a description about food preparation, how it was done in olden times and how it should be done. Dialect: Standard Boro
Date: May 9, 2009
Duration: 2 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Brahma, Bihung
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description about making a bamboo sieve

Description: This is a description about making bamboo sieve. Dialect: Standard Boro
Date: May 9, 2009
Duration: 2 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Brahma, Bihung
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of weaving methods

Description: Sarojani Borgayari describes weaving tools and how weaving was traditionally done by the Boros. Dialect: Bwddwn
Date: February 9, 2009
Duration: 5 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Partner: UNT College of Information
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