The Speckled Band

A would be bride, who is haunted by a mysterious whistle, dies inside her closed sleeping room, her bad-tempered India-returned step-father keeps fierce animals in his house, a band of gypsies... What else you need for a gripping detective story! And this story has it all. So, presenting you the Assamese translation of one the best stories of Sherlock Holmes--The Speckled Band.

The Speckled Band Assamese

The Blue Carbuncle, নীলা পদ্মৰাগ মণি

The Christmas is here, and a lucky coincidence that sevent story of Sherlock Holmes, The Blue Carbuncle is also set in the Christmas. Commissionaire Peterson, found an old hat and a goose while coming back from his duty. The goose apparently was a Christmas Present. Waiting two days Holmes decided it's time to send the goose to its destiny. But, like a fairy tale, a valuable gem was found in the goose's stomach. A tragic story is associated with the gem and Holmes has to unveil the events.

The Blue Carbuncle is a Christmas story, and like all Christmas stories, its message is also of love, kindness and forgiveness!

Adventure of The Blue Carbuncle in Assamese

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ওঁভোতা ওঁঠৰ মানুহজন (The man with the twisted lip)

'The man with the twisted lip' is the sixth story in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The story starts quite uncoventionally at Watson's home, where his wife's friend has come to seek help from Watson's wife. The nature of problem is such that Watson has to visit some notorious places of London to help finding her husband. Watson solves the woman's problem, but he finds his dear friend in the same notorius place trying to help some other woman to find her missing husband. Watson remains with Holmes and gets to witness a crime of the most original manner.

Master detective admits he need to be kicked in the butt for being such an idiot!!

Here is the story:

The Man With the Twisted Lip Sherlock Holmes in Assamese

Asomiya_Rohini font

Few months back I mentioned about a font set for Assamese which would include all necessary forms and be suitable for using with UNICODE. Respected Wahid Saleh Sir of e-jonaki-jug has shown interest in the font. Since then I worked some more on the the font set and they are usable now.

The font-set is a modified work on SolaimanLipi by Solaiman Karim.

If you are interested you can download the font from here.

There is demo page with UNICODE webpage at this address: http://www.bhuruka.org/rohini/html.html

However, please bear in mind that demo page has embedded font. So, it will take some time to load. Also, the page does not work in Google Chrome (at least in my version). The page worked fine with IE6 and Mozilla.

I shall be glad to know any comments, suggestions about the font. You can contact me for any problem using the font.

www.bhuruka.org

Hello all,
Posting after a long gap! Currently busy putting together a website to maintain a database of books published from Assam. The website is up and running, but currently is in beta phase. The site is planned as a community driven project where any member can add books and comment and share their thought about the book.

Here is the link:
www.bhuruka.org

Puting up a website is not as easy as I thought! So, I shall be very glad to hear your comments and suggestions.

Very sppn will resume the Sherlock Holmes stories again.

Five Orange Pips, Assamese translation of a Sherlock Holmes story

Continuing my venture to translate the stories of Sherlcok Holmes to Assamese here is the fifth story from 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.'

The nice looking young man is petrified after he got five dried orange pips by post. While local police thinks the pips are nothing but a practical joke, Holmes thinks otherwise. Holmes may be the analytical genius of the world, but can he play against fate?

Five orange pips is an wonderful reading. One of the most shocking and terrifying tales of Sherlock Holmes. And there is nothing like first reading of the story.

Five Orange Pips in Assamese

Online Assamese Dictionary.

This Sherlock Holmes translation had made me learn few great things. Two of them I would like to share:

www.xobdo.org is an online Assamese Dictionary, which is English-to-Assamese, Assamese-to-English and also many other languages prevalent in North-East. That is community project and new words are added everyday. Not only you can use the dictionary, you can even help make it better by adding new words. Till now around 35000 words are there and still counting. However, for my need it was a bit inadequate, as most words that I needed were not in the dictionary. But, this is not a fault with the website, as those words are rarely used. And, I shall be happy if the webmasters of the site can make it a bit faster.

There is an online version of the Chandrakanta Ovidhan at the following link:
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/candrakanta/.
There is nothing to add about Chandrakanta Ovidhan. There is an article on Assam Tribune about this project. link to the article. You can follow this link to know a bit more.

Bye for now.