Guwahati, Feb. 1 -- In a bizarre turn of events, the Assam government has included a deceased litterateur on a committee tasked with revising the Assamese script.

The Cultural Affairs department recently reconstituted a 17-member committee for the "preparation of a revised proposal for a separate code chart for the Assamese script." Among the members listed is Dr. Ramesh Pathak, a renowned linguist and writer who passed away four years ago.

Dr. Pathak died on January 27, 2021, at his residence in Guwahati at the age of 79. A notification dated January 29, 2025, issued by B Kalyan Chakravarthy, Additional Chief Secretary of the Assam Cultural Affairs department, announced the committee's reconstitution, citing a partial modification of a...