{"id":126686,"date":"2020-05-31T03:18:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T21:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=126686"},"modified":"2020-05-31T03:18:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T21:48:02","slug":"asom-sahitya-sabha-to-celebrate-dais-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/05\/31\/asom-sahitya-sabha-to-celebrate-dais-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Asom Sahitya Sabha to celebrate Dai&#8217;s birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Asom-Sahitya-Sabha-to-celebrate-Dais-birthday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-126706 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Asom-Sahitya-Sabha-to-celebrate-Dais-birthday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Asom-Sahitya-Sabha-to-celebrate-Dais-birthday.jpg 396w, https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Asom-Sahitya-Sabha-to-celebrate-Dais-birthday-282x300.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/a>ITANAGAR, May 30:<\/strong> Asom Sahitya Sabha, the apex literary body of Assam will be celebrating the 81st birthday of the great litterateur &#8216;Sahitya Surya&#8217; Lummer Dai on June 1. But unlike previous years, the literary icon&#8217;s birthday celebration, this time, will turn out to be a low-key affair.<br \/>\nThe Sabha has decided to go for a limited public celebration, instead of a grand one, in view of the Covid-19-induced lockdown as well as the social distancing norms and other guidelines issued by the government to battle the global pandemic.<br \/>\n&#8216;Dai&#8217;s birth anniversary will be celebrated at the central office of Asom Sahitya Sabha at Jorhat and nine regional offices across Assam on Monday by lighting a lamp in front of the late novelist&#8217;s portrait, following the social distancing protocol,&#8217; the Sabha secretary general Jadav Sarma said in a communiqu\u00e9 on Saturday.<br \/>\nHe appealed for commemorating the day and paying homage to the litterateur by lighting a lamp in Assam&#8217;s Bihpura-based Lummer Dai North East Centre for Language, Literature and Cultural Research, and Lummer Dai Bhavan at Tezpur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, May 30: Asom Sahitya Sabha, the apex literary body of Assam will be celebrating the 81st birthday of the great litterateur &#8216;Sahitya Surya&#8217; Lummer Dai on June 1. But unlike previous years, the literary icon&#8217;s birthday celebration, this time, will turn out to be a low-key affair. The Sabha has decided to go for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-126686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}