Nirupama Borgohain (née Tamuli; born 17 March 1932) is an Indian journalist and novelist in the Assamese language.
[2] She attended Cotton College, Guwahati and Calcutta University, from where she received post-graduate degrees in English literature and Assamese.
[5] From 1979–85, there was a socio-political movement in Assam against the influx of alleged illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, and several camps were attacked by the activists.
This intertwined the story of a woman with the fate of a river, while Ejan Budha Manuh (An Old Man, 1966) centred on the relationship between a father and son, laying bare the tensions fraying it owing to an inter-caste marriage.
[9] Borgohain's Abhiyatri (1995) was a biographical novel of the life of an Assamese freedom fighter, feminist and social activist, Chandraprava Saikiani.