Lakshminath Bezbaroa

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEite5XHn3cRZj-DkT9eX5gE8uaCwmRyrzH_2LgngxaSkVXkt89upKLM_zH-2SRq0UZ8nrtlDBgyOU8WFMArQt3aEof9THJhfyUiGY-lClrksdmelTYuiZBUX3WW0Ye_DZ7BwmkVz9-aFT3r/s1600/Lakshminath+Bezbaroa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEite5XHn3cRZj-DkT9eX5gE8uaCwmRyrzH_2LgngxaSkVXkt89upKLM_zH-2SRq0UZ8nrtlDBgyOU8WFMArQt3aEof9THJhfyUiGY-lClrksdmelTYuiZBUX3WW0Ye_DZ7BwmkVz9-aFT3r/s1600/Lakshminath+Bezbaroa.jpg" width="227" /></a><i><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">About Lakshminath Bezbaroa</span></span><br /><br />Lakshminath Bezbaroa /lokh-mi-nah-th bej-boh-ruu-ah/ (1868–1938) was a great Assamese personality and celebrated pioneer of modern Assamese literature. He was one of the literary stalwarts of the Jonaki Era, the age of romanticism in Assamese literature when through his essays, plays, fiction, poetry and satires, he gave a new impetus to the then stagnating Assamese literary caravan.<br /><br />As a sensitive artist, he responded to the prevailing social environment through his beautifully timed satirical works to bring and sustain positive changes to the former. His creative literature reflected the deeper urges of the people of Assam.<br /><br /><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Confusion Regarding Date of Birth</span></span><br /><br />There is a confusion regarding the date of birth of Lakshminath Bezbaroa and also a story behind it as told by Bezbaroa himself. In the first line of the first paragraph of the first chapter of his auto-biography Mor Jiban Sowaran,Lakshminath Bezbaroa confirms outright his inability to remember his exact date of birth that his parents used to tell him. But later when he grew young and required to put his date of birth for essential records, he invented a date for the purpose viz."1868 AD , November". He writes that he would like to offer this piece of information to anyone interested knowing about his date of birth although he is unsure whether that information in any way would going to affect the balance-sheet of anyone's life. In the next line he explicitly writes that approximately translates into<br /><br />"I am not convinced that on hearing,knowing or composing the news of my incarnation to destroy the "Annasur" (Food Devil) in that given year, perhaps two or four years earlier or later for that matter, the mankind shall be at any loss or profit or concede any damage."<br /><br />In the very next paragraph, he went on describing in detail how and why the Bundle of Birth-Charts,kept religiously and secretly away from the kids by his parents, which contained the one, the his one he knew for certain during his childhood, was lost.<br /><br />Lakshminath Bezbaroa has however confirmed in his auto-biography that he was born in the autumn on a full-moon night, on which "Lakhmi Puja" ( A Hindu festival of worship of Goddess Lakhmi) is celebrated in India, and to mark the coincidence, he was named by his parents as "Lakshminath" ( A name for Vishnu, the Hindu God and husband of Goddess Lakhmi). This autumn-festival celebrated in the full-moon of Ashvin usually falls in the month of October in any year. As per a NASA web-site data, there was only one full-moon day in the month of November, 1868 and that was on 30th[3] but that was not the day of celebration of Lakshmi puja in that year. Presently, the Assam Sahitya Sabha has settled on a date "14th October,1864", that was a full-moon night of Lakshmi Puja in India,for his date of birth.<br /><br /><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Early life</span></span><br /><br />Lakshminath Bezbaroa was born on a boat, as it stood moored in a sand bank of the river Brahmaputra at Ahatguri, near Nagaon on a Lakshmi Purnima night, in 14th october 1864. His father Dinanath Bezbaroa, a senior official with the British government, was in the process of moving to Barpeta due to official transfer.<br /><br />Lakshminath Bezbaroa spent his childhood in different places of the Assam. His father brought his family with him from Barpeta to Tezpur. From Tezpur they shifted to North Lakhimpur. In between the family stayed for a brief while at Guwahati and finally they settled in Sibsagar.</span></b></i></div> </div>

Lakshminath Bezbaroa

About Lakshminath Bezbaroa Lakshminath Bezbaroa /lokh-mi-nah-th bej-boh-ruu-ah/ (1868–1938) was a great Assamese personality and celebra...

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Bhabananda Deka

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9d1qCOzw3CKAMc453rczb6YZ8BC1WA6y4aU_EEHzyBnfj-XTEf8M47uiLo7o_GFyxZ2a8Z5JIOuASGMLQ_FPYDb-Ra5Mf3l5r-6cp2b7R7f6dwZu95rSGpmq4X1PF4S4bR73Yyx9X5i4E/s1600/Bhabananda+Deka.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9d1qCOzw3CKAMc453rczb6YZ8BC1WA6y4aU_EEHzyBnfj-XTEf8M47uiLo7o_GFyxZ2a8Z5JIOuASGMLQ_FPYDb-Ra5Mf3l5r-6cp2b7R7f6dwZu95rSGpmq4X1PF4S4bR73Yyx9X5i4E/s1600/Bhabananda+Deka.JPG" /></a><i><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: magenta;">About Bhabananda Deka</span></span><br /><br />Prof Bhabananda Deka (1929–2006), is a multi-faceted writer of one hundred twelve books, textbooks on economics, literature and political science, and articles from Assam, a state in the north-eastern part of India. He pioneered the writing of books on Economics in Assamese. His Assamese book on Assam Economics was published for the first time in 1961.<br /><br /><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Biography</span></span></span></b></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Early Life and education</span></span><br /><br />Prof Bhabananda Deka was born to Late Baliram Pathak and Late Sayatri Bala Pathak at Byaskuchi Satra, Barpeta sub division of undivided Kamrup district, Assam. He completed his graduation in Economics in 1954 and did his post graduation in Economics from Gauhati University in 1957. After his post graduation, he went to his hometown and worked for Bhattadeb Milan Samiti as a secretary and was instrumental behind the building of the first Library (Bhattadev Puthivoral) in Byaskuchi.<br /><br /><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Career</span></span><br /><br />On 1 September 1958 Prof. Bhabananda Deka joined Pragjyotish College in the Economics Department as a Professor. He was retired as Principal of Pragjyotish College in 1992. He was the Founder Principal of Bapuji College in Sarthebari. While he was working for Pragjyotish College, he took leave for a year and worked as a Senior Research Officer in the Language Unit of Union Public Service Commission, Delhi. He also worked as Principal of 4 (four) other Graduate and Post Graduate Colleges spread over the entire state of Assam in India, and brought access to the higher education closer to the toiling millions of underprivileged people in India,.<br /><br />He was one of the first Assamese to form Asomiya Sahitya Samaj in Delhi along with Parikshit Hazarika and Upendra Nath Goswami in 1968. They were subservient in the introduction of Assamese Language in MIL Department of Delhi University.<br /><br />He was highly influenced by Sankari Culture and folk culture heritage & was known for his active participation in setting up Belbari Satra (Vaisnavite Monastery) in Barpeta District. He has written hundreds of articles and books on Mahapurusha Srimanta Sankardeva and Sankari Culture. He translated the Kirtan Ghosa (Poetic works of Srimanta Sankardeva) from Assamese to English.<br /><br />He was a dynamic member of Asom Sahitya Sabha and was made President of Kamrup Sahitya Sabha in 1982.<br /><br />He was an active member of numerous organisations and associations.</span></b></i></div> </div>

Bhabananda Deka

About Bhabananda Deka Prof Bhabananda Deka (1929–2006), is a multi-faceted writer of one hundred twelve books, textbooks on economics, l...

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Atul Chandra Hazarika

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiXxnruJ1Rwslih71jy8wRPJenraUqIi0bqtQd1H7Y9YQEHTXT00WJdxjC1roJh3j7GOoxs4vsYL-Jxi_coEzSJkHfGO_p1pJWGGltcwOCw3TzRTPBuk_a_73qClgXop6UEiemhKGDn7Yn/s1600/Atul+Chandra+Hazarika.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiXxnruJ1Rwslih71jy8wRPJenraUqIi0bqtQd1H7Y9YQEHTXT00WJdxjC1roJh3j7GOoxs4vsYL-Jxi_coEzSJkHfGO_p1pJWGGltcwOCw3TzRTPBuk_a_73qClgXop6UEiemhKGDn7Yn/s1600/Atul+Chandra+Hazarika.jpg" width="242" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">About Atul Chandra Hazarika</span></span><br /><br />Atul Chandra Hazarika was born in (1903–1986) was a prominent Assamese litterateur from Assam. He excelled as a poet, dramatist, children story writer and translator. He was bestowed the epithet "Sahitycharjya" by Oxom Xahitya Xabha, the premier literary organization of Assam.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">Life and literary works</span></span><br /><br />Born on 9 September 1903, in the state of Assam of India, Atul Hazarika, obtained his M.A. degree from Calcutta University and started his service life as teacher of Assamese literature. He retired as a professor and head of the department of Assamese in Cotton College, Guwahati, Assam. Atul Hazarika was author of more than one hundred books in Assamese. In nineteen thirties he authored a record number of Assamese dramas to give a new lease of life to the Assamese stage. During the same time he became a household name as a young poet-"Dipalir Kobi". He also authored many story books for children. Some of his adaptations of western classics like "Grimor Xadhu", Andersonor Xadhu" became very popular. He was also compiler and editor of works of great as well as many lesser known writers of Assamese. He compiled and edited several works of Sahityarathi Lakhinath BezBaruah and at the same time he collected and published in "Moroha Phoolor Koroni" works of many talented but lesser known writers who died in their early years. Atul Hazarika was also one of those pioneers who were responsible for giving a new face to Bihu-the national festival of Assam. He was associated with the founding committee,which organized for the first time Bihu on stage at a city pavilion in Guwahati some sixty years back. Atul Hazarika was also a great literary worker and as a general secretary, he was responsible for giving a new lease of life to Oxom Xahitya Xabha in the fifties. He became the President of this apex literary organization of Assamese language in 1959.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">Awards</span></span><br /><br />Hazarika was awarded Sahitya Akademi Award in 1969 for his magnum opus, Monchalekha, which traced five hundred years of Assamese drama and stage. He was also awarded Padma Shri by Government of India in 1971.</span></b></i></div> </div>

Atul Chandra Hazarika

About Atul Chandra Hazarika Atul Chandra Hazarika was born in (1903–1986) was a prominent Assamese litterateur from Assam. He excelled a...

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