Our story
About us
Puthiverse is a home for readers of Assamese literature — a place to rate, review and recommendthe books that carry our language forward. We built it because a modern shelf for Assamese books simply did not exist online, and we thought that was a small injustice worth fixing.
What Puthiverse is
- A bilingual (English & Assamese) catalogue you can search by title, author, genre and year.
- A public star-rating and review system, where the most-liked reviews rise to the top.
- Personal Want to Read, Currently Reading and Read shelves for every user.
- A simple follow graph — see the reviews of readers whose taste you trust.
- Affiliate buy-links for supported vendors so you can find a copy without leaving the page.
- Shareable book cards for WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram, Facebook and X.
What Puthiverse is not
- A publisher — we host no full texts and sell no books directly.
- An academic archive — we defer to universities and libraries for scholarship.
- An ad platform — there are no ads, no third-party trackers, no engagement metrics for its own sake.
How the name reads
Puthi (পুথি) is the Assamese word for a book or manuscript — the object our ancestors copied by hand on saanchi paat and passed from village to village.
The canon, curated
Folk tales through Jnanpith winners.
Reader-made
Every review is written by a real person.
Author-respecting
Rights-holders have a direct line to us.
Community-owned
No ads, no tracking, no engagement bait.
Diaspora-friendly
Same shelf in Guwahati or Toronto.
Bilingual
English and Assamese, side by side.
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