Senior journalist Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty speaks to Guwahati-based academic, author and translator Banani Chakrabarty about recently translating to English the biography of noted Assamese Anandaram Dhekial Phukan. The book was published 135 years ago by Gunabhiram Barua, a noted Assamese intellectual from the 19th century. Considered a classic in Assamese literature, the biography, aside from giving a peek at Phukan’s significant contribution to Assam as a native East India Company official, record’s the society of the times including the tensions kicked up by the Sepoy Mutiny.