Books, e-books and festival souvenirs
Publications
Books on drama, theatre and Assamese culture by Dr Mrinal Jyoti Goswami and AANK_A Creative Line: play texts, studies of theatre in Assam, edited collections, and Theatre Mosaic, the annual souvenir of BBITF.
New books, 2026
Plays
শৰীৰ আৰু সীমা
Bodies and Borders · From Script to Stage · Volume Two (2017–2026)
Collected plays of Mrinal Jyoti Goswami
Plays: Etheror Irika · Alice in Assam · A River’s Tale · The Body as Border
E-book · 180 pages · Free
Four plays written and staged between 2017 and 2026. Across them the work moves from the ensemble to the solo performer, and from the spoken word to the body. Each play comes with its Assamese and English texts, notes on the play, set and light designs, photographs and the record of performances.
সাধু আৰু সময়
Tales and Times · From Script to Stage · Volume One (2012–2018)
Collected plays of Mrinal Jyoti Goswami
Plays: Imaan Imaan Paani · Tuponi E Ture Kalatalat Ghar · Irikoti Mirikoti · Bhukar Xaadhu
E-book · 146 pages · ISBN 978-81-980486-8-4 · Free
Four plays written and staged between 2012 and 2018. Each starts from something old and familiar, a children’s rhyme, a folk tale, a song or a painting, and turns it towards the politics of the present. With the Assamese and English texts, set and light designs, photographs, posters and press reports.
Eréndira’s Metamorphosis
এৰেণ্ডিৰাচ মেটামৰ্ফচিচ · A play in English, with the Assamese translation
Mrinal Jyoti Goswami with Namrata Sarma
E-book · 71 pages · ISBN 978-81-980486-7-7 · Free
A play for a single narrator, first staged by AANK_A Creative Line in Guwahati in June 2022. Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s tale of Eréndira, it does not retell the story: its Narrator slips in and out of her life and asks what power makes of a body and of a story. With notes by the director and the performer, photographs, designs, posters and the performance history.
Theatre and society in Assam
অসমৰ সমাজ জীৱন আৰু নাটক
Asomar Samaj Jiban aru Natak · Social Life and Theatre in Assam
Mrinal Jyoti Goswami
E-book · 136 pages · ISBN 978-81-980486-0-8 · Free
Theatre is not merely a mirror of society; it questions society and imagines it anew. This book studies how social life in Assam and Assamese drama have shaped each other over a long history, from Sankardeva’s neo-Vaishnavite movement, Ankiya Nat and the Namghar, through the colonial period and the decades after Independence, to the alternative spaces, pandemic years, festivals and international links of 2016–2026.
Throughout, the book shows how social structure, language, politics and values changed both the themes and the forms of Assamese drama, and treats the stage, mobile theatre, festivals and the audience as part of that social story.
অসমৰ নাট্যকলা: পৰম্পৰা আৰু পৰিৱৰ্তন
Asomar Natyakala: Parampara aru Parivartan · Theatre Arts of Assam: Tradition and Change
Mrinal Jyoti Goswami and Junmoni Gogoi
E-book · 232 pages · ISBN 978-81-980486-4-6 · Free
The history of theatre in Assam is more than a history of written plays. The actor’s body and voice, music, the stage, light and the audience all belong to it. This book reads that history as one continuous story of performance, from ritual and folk forms, Ankiya Nat, Jhumura, Ojapali, puppet theatre and Kushan Gaan to the proscenium stage, mobile theatre and the open-air and alternative spaces of recent years.
The guiding question throughout is not only when a play was written, but where, how and before whom it was performed. A full reference list and indexes of names and subjects make it a useful reference for students and researchers.
Theatre Mosaic: festival souvenirs
Theatre Mosaic 2026
Souvenir of BBITF and BCITF 2026 · E-book · ISBN 978-81-980486-2-2
Editor: Dr Mrinal Jyoti Goswami · Co-editors: Dr Junmoni Gogoi, Dr Sanjib Borah · Cover: Dr Sanjib Borah
Messages, the festival programme, articles on theatre in Romania, Croatia and aerial performance, profiles of the productions from India, Sri Lanka, the USA and Poland, and the first Bo-Chang International Theatre Festival at Makum.
Theatre Mosaic 2025
Souvenir of BBITF 2025 · ISBN 978-81-980486-5-3
Editors: Dr Junmoni Gogoi and Rengani Handique
The first Theatre Mosaic, released at the BBITF 2025 inaugural ceremony: articles by scholars and theatre practitioners, the festival programme and the productions of BBITF 2025.
Earlier books
From Canvas to Stage
Edited by Dr Mrinal Jyoti Goswami and Dr Sanjib Borah
E-book · 102 pages · ISBN 978-81-980486-9-1 · Free
Essays on the visual and performing arts by writers from India, Sri Lanka, Iran and Bangladesh: the aesthetic experience, theatre after Covid, performance art, theatre in Assam, Sri Lanka and Iran, and theatre criticism in the subcontinent.
Aytijyar Nirjash
ঐতিহ্যৰ নিৰ্যাস
Mrinal Jyoti Goswami
Assamese essays on the theory of drama, from eastern and western definitions of drama to the modern and postmodern Assamese stage.
Bhinnaxuree Emuthi Prabandha
ভিন্নসুৰী এমুঠি প্ৰবন্ধ
Mrinal Jyoti Goswami
Essays on Assamese culture, literature and heritage, including Sattriya dance and music.
Kaleidoscope
Chief editors: Jogen Chandra Kalita and Shyamanta Chakraborty
Research articles from Orientation Programme-120 at UGC-HRDC, Gauhati University, 31 July – 20 August 2019.