DIBRUGARH: “The people of Assam enjoy an amazing multi-layered neighbourhood extending from the Northeastern Region to the whole of Southeast Asia and beyond. The need of the hour, however, is to prepare the students to take full advantage of the emerging socio-economic and geo- strategic developments in Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific,” Nagaland University Chancellor and eminent journalist Dr Samudra Gupta Kashyap said on Saturday. Delivering the Lakshmiprasad Dutta Memorial lecture on the occasion of the 79th foundation day celebration of , Dr Kashyap spoke on the theme “Assam’s Amazing Neighbourhood”, also dwelt at length on the emerging geo-strategic developments in the region, and called upon the academia to orient the students accordingly.
Dr. Kashyap highlighted the uniqueness of the Assamese language, and said it has peculiar a glory, a magic, where an even a single letter can represent a sentence. The 79th foundation day of the historic Dibrugarh Hanumanbax Surajmall Kanoi College was inaugurated by Nagaland University Professor Samudra Gupta Kashyap as the chief guest.
He delivered a thought- provoking lecture on ‘Assam’s Amazing Neighbourhood’ in memory of the founding Vice-Principal of the college, Dr. Laxmi Prasad Dutta. “We are neighbours who depend on each other, whether it is in terms of transportation, economic dependence or linguistic relations,” he said.
He emphasized on the National Education Policy-2020, saying it is essential to e.
