The Linguists, Scholars & Engineers Behind KathaNE
At KathaNE, our editorial integrity is rooted in active university scholarship, linguistic computation, and decades of professional translation practice. Meet the leaders ensuring zero-hallucination accuracy for Northeast Indian languages.
Honorary Academic Adviser
Directing KathaNE's linguistic methodology, academic translation peer-review standards, and Northeast dialectology frameworks.
Dr. Arup Kumar Nath
Adviser (Honorary)
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Language Technology, Tezpur University
"Northeast Indian languages possess unique agglutinative, morphological, and tonal structures. True localization requires uncompromising native competence combined with academic linguistic rigor."
Guiding KathaNE’s linguistic methodology and academic translation standards. Dr. Nath brings distinguished scholarly expertise in Northeast Indian linguistics, computational language technology, morphology, and dialectology, ensuring orthographic precision and theoretical rigor across all language departments.
Core Team & Technical Practice Leads
Leading our daily translation gates, technical Unicode engineering, transcreation campaigns, and client delivery operations.
Dr. Bedanta Bordoloi
Technical Adviser & Language Systems Lead
Language Technology & Unicode Systems
Advising on digital localization architecture, complex multi-script font rendering, Meetei Mayek and Eastern Nagari Unicode compliance, and translation memory system (TMS) pipelines to eliminate digital script clipping and encoding artifacts.
Sikha Nath
Lead Translator & Editorial Director
Overseeing translation quality across academic, literary, and institutional projects. With over a decade of translation practice in Assamese and regional languages, Sikha leads KathaNE’s senior translator panels, ensuring native register nuance, terminological accuracy, and human-supervised editorial excellence.
Papori Bhagawati
Localization Expert
Specializing in digital product localization, advertising transcreation, and multimedia adaptation. Papori bridges modern digital platforms with authentic Northeast vernaculars, ensuring campaigns and UI strings resonate culturally with local demographics.
Kalyan Jyoti Saikia
Process & Operations Manager
Managing KathaNE’s 6-step quality workflow, client onboarding, and linguist panel coordination. Kalyan ensures that every project passes through rigorous bilateral NDAs, milestone tracking, dual-stage peer reviews, and timely delivery.
35+ Native Linguists & Subject-Matter Reviewers
In addition to our core leadership, KathaNE coordinates an accredited network of native Assamese, Bodo, Meitei, Khasi, Karbi, Mising, and Tiwa translators across universities, research institutes, and cultural bodies in the Northeast.
Native Speakers & Residents
Independent Peer Review
Signed Confidentiality
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