The Department Of Visual Arts, Assam University:
Pride of North-East

Dr. Ganesh Nandi

As the chirpy birds wake to a clear golden sky, so do they. They feel the pulse of nature with their sixth sense, then invoke their aesthetic sensibility to translate their abstract feeling into something concrete—either through their brushes and color or in some three dimensional form. They are the students of the department of Visual Arts of Assam University. The Assam University Buildings are a part of the surrounding landscape. This institution of higher learning is a reward achieved by the people of South Assam popularly known as Barak valley for their movement over a decade to have a seat of learning of their own which would uphold the hidden political agenda inherent in their Bengali language movement of 1961.The university buildings are located at Durgakona, Silchar in a vast space interspersed with small,