Brief Bio-Data 1. NAME : ALEENDRA BRAHMA 2. PRESENT ADDRESS & CONTACT : Dept. of Humanities & Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Dist.- Kamrup (M), State- Assam, PIN- 781039 3. aleendra.iitg@gmail.com, aleendra@iitg.ernet.in www.aleendra.weebly.com, +91 9707930928 3. DATE OF BIRTH : 31st December, 1981 4. DETAILS OF EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION : 2004: B.A. in English 2007: M.A. in Linguistics (awarded UGC JRF) 2009: M.A. in Bodo (awarded UGC JRF & NE SLET) 2010: M.Phil in Linguistics 5. BOOKS : (i) 2006: स -स न ज भ रत व ट र इब लफ रन ह -द ह न ग म न य: आय न आर ह स म न द (Bodo version of Tribal Land Alienation in North East India: Laws and Land Relations) published by North Eastern Social Research Centre, Guwahati and Indigenous Women s Forum of North East India. (ii) 2013: ग ब न ब ब द ज द म न (Bodo version of It Happened Tomorrow) published by National Book Trust India, New Delhi. ISBN: 978-81-237-6625-6. (iii) 2013: बर -ग र र व ह न ज (in Bodo) (Bodo-Garo Group of Languages) published by N.L. Publications, Guwahati. Co-Author: Biswajit Brahma. ISBN: 978-93-81183-56-4. (iv) 2013: Modern Bodo Grammar published by N.L. Publications, Guwahati. ISBN: 978-93-81183-46-5. (v) 2013: ज फ स र जउन आस ख न द ज रर नम (A collection of 16 short stories in Bodo) published by MRB Publishers (India), Guwahati. ISBN: 978-93-83403-02-8. (vi) 2014: र व आर बर र वख न (in Bodo) (Language and the Bodo Linguistics) published by MRB Publishers (India), Guwahati. ISBN: 978-93-83403-00-4. (vii) 2014: Languages Of Northeast India (Volume- I) published by MRB Publishers (India), Guwahati. ISBN: 978-81-924953-6-1. (viii) 2014: An Introduction to Bodo Phonology published by Bhabani BOOKS, Guwahati.
6. JOURNAL PAPERS : (i) 2012: बर ब न न ख न : म ख स ज न आर स वर नय य (in Bodo) (Bodo Spelling System: Some Problems and Discussion) published in फ र ल इ (an annual journal by Bodo Department Teachers Association). ISSN: 2278-8085. (ii) 2013: Compounding In Bodo published in Language in India (www.languageinindia.com); Co- Author: Dr. Anil Boro. ISSN: 1930-2940. (iii) 2013: Morphological Tense and Aspect in Bodo published in The Marginal Voice (www.neinad.com). ISSN: 0976-853X. (iv) 2013: Grammatical Moods in Bodo published in Language in India (www.languageinindia.com). ISSN: 1930-2940. (v) 2013: Reduplication in Bodo published in International Journal of English and Education (www.ijee.org). ISSN: 2278-4012. Note: Until now, contributed around 50 articles in local and regional periodicals. 7. SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, TRAINING PROGRAMMES, ETC.: (i) Training Workshop on Field Linguist s Toolbox organized by in the department of Linguistics, Gauhati University in collaboration with SIL International from 7th May, 2007 to 12th May, 2007 at the Department of Linguistics, Gauhati University. (ii) 1st (6-7 February, 2006, Gauhati University), 2nd (7-9 February, 2007, Guwahati) and 3rd (20-22 January, 2008, Guwahati) International Conferences of the North East Indian Linguistics Society (NEILS) organized by the Department of Linguistics, Gauhati University in collaboration with Scholars from the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University, Australia. (iii) (iii) National Seminar on the Contemporary Bodo Fiction organized by the Department of Bodo, Gauhati University in collaboration with the Sahitya Akademi, Kolkata from 7th to 8th December, 2007 at the premises of Gauhati University. (iv) (iv) North-East Winter School of Linguistics (NEWSOL) organized by Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore in collaboration with the Department of Linguistics, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong from 21st January, 2008 to 14th February, 2008 at the department of Linguistics, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong. (v) (v) Workshop on an Introduction to Natural Language Processing organized by Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages (LDC-IL) team of CIIL, Mysore in collaboration with the Department of Assamese, Gauhati University from 9th November, 2009 to 13th November, 2009 at the department of Assamese, Gauhati University.
(vi) (vi) Workshop for the Preparation of Glossary of the Bodo Linguistics Terms organized by the National Translation Mission (NTM), CIIL from 13th March, 2010 to 22nd March, 2010 at the department of Bodo, Gauhati University. (vii) (viii) (ix) (x) (xi) (xii) (xiii) (xiv) (xv) (vii) First Workshop-cum-Seminar on the Spelling System in Bodo organized by Bodo Department Teachers Association on 23 May at Gauhati University. 7th International Conferences of the North East Indian Linguistics Society (NEILS) organized by the Department of Linguistics, Gauhati University in collaboration with Scholars from the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University, Australia on 4 February, 2012. Name of paper presented: An Acoustic Study of Bodo Tones. Orientation Programme for Translators in Bodo organized by National Translation Mission, CIIL at North Eastern Regional Language Centre from 2 to 6 July, 2012. (x) Asom Vidya, National Conference and Seminar organized by NEINAD and Department of Hindi, Gauhati University at Gauhati University, Guwahati on 17 and 18 November, 2012. Name of the paper presented: Grammatical Mood in Assamese. Workshop cum Training Programme of English to Indian Language Machine Translation (EILMT) organized by EILMT-Bodo, Department of Linguistics, NEHU, Shillong on 16 March, 2013 at Guwahati NEHU Guest House, Guwahati. Participated as an Expert in Workshop on Bodo Adverbs organized by EILMT-Bodo, Department of Linguistics, NEHU, Shillong on 9-10 May, 2013 at Gauhati University Guest House, Guwahati. International seminar on Globalisation to Glocalisation organized by Department of English, Bodoland University, Kokrajhar on 3, 4 and 5 November, 2013. Name of the paper presented: Formation of the Kinship Terms in Bodo. 8th International conference of North East India Linguistics Society (NEILS-8) organized by NEILS on 31 January, 1 and 2 February, 2014. Name of the paper presented: Case Assignment in the Bodo and Dimasa Languages. Participated as a Resource Person in Workshop of English to Indian Language Machine Translation (EILMT) organized by EILMT-Bodo, Department of Linguistics, NEHU, NEHU Guest House, Guwahati on 29-30 September, 2014. 8. EXPERIENCE : (i) 2008-2011: Junior Project Fellow, Resource Centre for Indian Language Technology Solutions, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. (ii)2011-2014: Resource Person (Academic), North Eastern Regional Language Centre (Central Institute of Indian Languages), Beltola, Guwahati.
9. OTHER ACTIVITIES : (i) Translating and editing Bodo textbooks of/under SEBA, RMSA & SCERT Assam (Subjects: Information Technology (Class IX), Organized Retailing (Class IX), Geography (Class IX), Bithorai (Class VI-VIII), etc. (ii) Use to attend workshops of SCERT Assam and Axom Sarba Siksha Abhijan Mission, on various tasks as a resource person and as an expert