A fish in Mising

A story told at a workshop became the first picture book many children had seen in their own language.

A grandmother in Dhemaji district who told a story at a workshop Written down 14 March 2026.

At a book-making workshop in Dhemaji, an older woman told the story of a fish that swam up the wrong river. Two illustrators drew it that afternoon.

It was printed in Mising and Assamese in March. The libraries on the north bank have issued it more than any other new book this year.