Asom Bani

Notable work and positions

Assam Tribune Group - Assamese-language weekly newspaper (1955-2025)

Biography

Asom Bani was an Assamese-language weekly newspaper published by the Guwahati-based Assam Tribune Group. Launched on July 1, 1955, by Assamese entrepreneur Radha Govinda Baruah, it reported on major socio-political developments in Assam over seven decades, including the Assamese-medium school instruction movement, the anti-influx agitation, the rise of separatist insurgency, and the emergence of regional politics. Over the years it was edited by a series of prominent Assamese journalist-authors, including Satish Chandra Kakati, Tilak Hazarika, Phani Talukdar, Nirod Chowdhury, Homen Bargohain and Chandraprasad Saikia; its last editor, Dilip Chandan, served the publication for nearly three decades. Amid a broader financial crisis at the Assam Tribune Group that deepened after the COVID-19 pandemic, Asom Bani was merged into the group's daily paper Dainik Asom as a Friday supplement before Dainik Asom's publishing responsibility was transferred to a different media group in September 2025. The new management did not continue Asom Bani, which appeared for the last time on September 12, 2025, ending its seven-decade run; more than 70 Assam Tribune Group employees lost their jobs in the transition.