Hiren Gohain (born 1939) is a scholar, writer, literary critic, and social scientist from the Indian state of Assam.
[2] It was Gohain who for the first time brought the ideas and methods of Anglo-American New Criticism to the study of Assamese/Indian literature in Assamese.
[5] Recently, he played an important role in the mediation of peace talks between the Government of India and the Assamese insurgent group ULFA.
[11] Gohain opposed the citizenship (Amendment) Act and equated the exclusion of Muslims from the CAA purview of the as a move similar to that of the pogrom against the Jews by Nazis in Germany during World War II.
[12] Gohain participated in an anti-CAA protest organised by the All Assam Journalists Union in front of Guwahati Press Club.