About NTF

Our biggest assets are Books, books and books. We have nearly 10,000 of them and this is the single biggest private collection of all in this part of the region. Not they are just books, but they are the rarest. From the journals of the nineteenth century to the early seventies it has almost every single important issue of magazine and books.
            Be it Robindra Nath Tagore’s letter or the original Orundoi,  or Abahon or Bahi or Jonaki everything is here which are open to the researchers of Assamese language. Hundreds of researchers of the literature in the past one and half decade have done research in the foundation.
            Although the research activities have been going even before the demise of Late Nanda Talukdar, a conscious attempt have been always made to maintain a low profile firstly because we were not prepared to handle the onrush of researchers because of logistical reasons and secondly the research activities is generally open to the dedicated class only.
            But still innumerable compilation of books, edited version of journals have come out from the Foundation and hence the Foundation remains the biggest and sole attraction of all the researchers of the Assamese literature. 
            But we still kept a low profile, initially an amateurish attempt was made to help the researchers often spending from own pocket. But gradually it changed. From a small organization now it has grown, thankfully supported by various PSUs  and now it has been regularly commissioned by the SIRD, Capart, CBTC and World bank to carry out independent evaluation of their work.

The Nanda Talukdar Foundation has regularly been commissioned by the SIRD, CAPART, CBTC and World Bank to carry out independent evaluation of their work in Assam. Only recently the NTF completed an exhaustive study on the SHG movement of Rural Assam covering 15 districts of the state spending almost nine months. A 300 page book “the SHG- The Real Story” have been published by the Foundation as the final result of the study. Again to popularize tourism, a three book series called “Bhraman” was also published.

The state has seen too much of negative thing over the years but there are small but beautiful stories of success both through formal and informal micro credit. Their success has been overshadowed by the glomming dark cloud of insurgency. The NTF took it as challenge, tracked down 24 such persons of the Brahmaputra valley, spent one week each with them and came out with a book called “Mon Korilei Son”. The book has been widely appreciated. The idea is to use to disseminate the positive information. Further to revive the dying habit of reading amongst the non serious readers, the Foundation in collaboration with Children Literary Trust, Assam, published three volumes of Jonbai and three volumes of travel handbook of India.