Tabu Taid

Who is Tabu Taid?

Tabu Ram Taid known as 'Tabu Taid', is a Linguist, Author, Educator and Administrator. He was born in Ghunasuti Ayengia, a small village of Mising community in present-day Lakhimpur district in Assam, India in August 1, 1942, father Ubang Taid. Belonging to the Mising community, a small community in Assam, India, and that too in an economically backward and remote village Ghunasuti Ayengia, where the importance of western style education was not very prevailing, he persuaded education, owing to his father's awareness eventually to achieve, postgraduate degree from Delhi University, which was quite uncommon in his community at that time. Starting career as a lecturer of English language in Cotton College, Guwahati, he further proceeded to obtain post graduate diploma in Applied Linguistics from University of Reading, and also undergone a course in distance education at University of London Institute of Education. He served in various senior level posts in various educational arms of Govt. of Assam. He was the founder President of Mising Agom Kébang, the apex body of the Mising community Mising aiming for preservation and development of the Mising language. His body of works contains Ekunki Nibondho on western paintings, Glimpses, a collection of English articles, research works on the Mising and Assamese language, editorial works on traditional Mising literary artifacts like folk songs, lexicographical works like dictionary, grammar and phonology on the Mising language. His works on his mother tongue, Mising, are his most valuable contribution to the Mising community and hence to the greater Assamese people.