The National Mission for Manuscripts of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, has offered to set up a research centre at the Institute of Tai Studies and Research, an NGO, at Moranhat in Sivasagar district to preserve Tai manuscripts.
Girin Phukan, the honorary director of the institute, said Dipti S. Tripathi, the director of the National Mission for Manuscripts, expressed her interest in the “culture of the people residing in the Northeast, as they have contributed immensely to the rich cultural and literary heritage of the country”.
Phukan was speaking at a book release function at Jorhat Press Club on Sep 19.
In a letter to the institute, Tripathi said they had projects on publishing manuscripts, training conservationists, manuscriptologists and paleographists.
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