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Assam Speaker Confident of Bringing Historic Textile Back Home

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Guwahati, June 27 (IANS) Assam Legislative Assembly Speaker Ranjeet Kumar Dass on Saturday expressed confidence that the historic Vrindavani Vastra, an iconic 16th-century Assamese textile masterpiece preserved in the United Kingdom, would be brought to the state for public display, adding that efforts are also underway to showcase another rare Assamese textile housed in a museum in Paris. Speaking to reporters, Dass said the initiative to bring the Vrindavani Vastra to Assam has been pursued fo…