{"id":68544,"date":"2019-06-03T02:50:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T21:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=68544"},"modified":"2019-06-03T02:50:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T21:20:41","slug":"terang-conferred-sahitya-surjya-lummer-dai-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/06\/03\/terang-conferred-sahitya-surjya-lummer-dai-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Terang conferred Sahitya Surjya Lummer Dai Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>TEZPUR, Jun 2:<\/strong> Former Asom Sahitya Sabha (ASS) president and noted literary figure from the Northeast, Rongbong Terang, was conferred the prestigious Sahitya Surjya Lummer Dai Award-2019 in a function held at Lummer Dai Bhavan here in Assam on Saturday.<br \/>\nThe award, instituted by the ASS, was presented by its president Paramananda Rajbongshi in commemoration of the 79th birth anniversary of the literary icon from Arunachal Pradesh, Lummer Dai.<br \/>\nTerang said he was overwhelmed by the award conferred on him in memory of a towering personality like Dai.<br \/>\nExpressing his gratitude to the ASS, he said it was not simply an award for him but a &#8220;noble mechanism initiated by the ASS to bridge the gap between<br \/>\nthe people of Karbi Anglong in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, and thereby strengthening the ethnic-fabric equation among different communities living in the region.&#8221;<br \/>\nTerong urged the ASS to keep the contributions of Lummer Dai alive through such programmes.<br \/>\nHe gifted traditional Karbi attires to Lummer Dai&#8217;s son, Mibom Dai, and other dignitaries accompanying him, as a symbol of love and integration.<br \/>\nEarlier, the function started with paying of homage to Dai by Mibom.<br \/>\nThe open session was inaugurated by local MLA Brindaban Goswami and attended by, among others, Arunachal Pradesh Literary Society vice president Tokong Pertin and Sonitpur DC Narshing Powar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEZPUR, Jun 2: Former Asom Sahitya Sabha (ASS) president and noted literary figure from the Northeast, Rongbong Terang, was conferred the prestigious Sahitya Surjya Lummer Dai Award-2019 in a function held at Lummer Dai Bhavan here in Assam on Saturday. The award, instituted by the ASS, was presented by its president Paramananda Rajbongshi in commemoration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68544","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=68544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}