Guwahati: The largest selling multilingual Braille dictionary in South Asia, “Hemkosh,” has been officially entered into the famous Guinness Book of World Records adding another feather to a collection of World Records.
It was the first Assamese dictionary when it was edited in the 19th century by the late Hemchandra Baruah. In the later part of the 19th century, “Hemkosh.”
It was released after four years of his death. Hemkosh Pran Debananda Baruah, the farther of Jayanta Baruah, who is the media conglomerate of Assam’s “Pratidin Media Organisation,” organised and altered the subsequent versions of the word reference that were distributed by the succeeding generations of his family particularly from fourth release to fourteenth version.
In an effort to continue the “Hemkosh” heritage, Jayanta Baruah the grandson of the late Hemchandra Baruah conceptualised and published the “Hemkosh” Braille version. This edition of “Hemkosh” spans more than 15 volumes and has almost 10,000 pages.
This Hemkosh Braille dictionary is the first full-language Braille dictionary after Oxford.
The prime minister of India Narendra Modi was also formally introduced to the phrase in New Delhi the previous year.
Both Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal were present in the event.