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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Melody Man
The Assamese poet's repertoire of songs is firmly anchored in his environment.
By Avirook Sen
The structural engineer in Alaska turned the heat on full blast inside his car and hummed to the strains of Moi eti jajabor (I am a wanderer). The road was endless, he ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
MEANINGS FOR MILLIONS
Bhupen Hazarika
The Question Mark
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty" -warned Thomas Jefferson.
Lallu, the laborer in a Bombay wheat mill often wonders at a paradox of ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
Shantanu Moitra, Hindustan Times Mumbai, April 12, 2008
I first heard the song O Ganga on Doordarshan. Both, the song and the singer, had me glued to the TV screen. At the end of the song, a name flashed below the name of the song: Bhupen Hazarika. I was about 11 ...
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2005
A few weeks ago, in the northern Assam town of Tezpur, a small group gathered in the elegant drawing room of the Goswamis, a prominent doctor couple, sipping drinks and listening to a long- time politician recount one of his favorite ...
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Thursday, October 20th, 2005
It's the same voice: rich, highly emotive, beautifully timbered, sonorously resonant. The voice that age has not managed to fell or even to lay low, the voice that entire generations of true-blue Assamese boys and girls have grown up on, the voice that has had men and women across ...
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Wednesday, June 9th, 2004
Bhupen Hazarika
Birth: 1926
Birthplace: Sadiya, Assam.
Profession: Playback Singer, Bollywood.
Family: wife
Bhupenda, as he is lovingly called by millions, is recognised by many as one of the greatest cultural figures that Assam has produced, next only to Sri Sri Sankaradeva, the Vaishnavite preacher of the 15th century, and Rupkonwar Jyoti Prasad Agarwalla, the ...
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Monday, November 4th, 2002
You don't have to be a rich man's son to move around the world. You don't have to compromise on your principles to carve out your own following in Bollywood. You can just be Bhupen Hazarika and watch fate take you places. ZIYA US SALAM speaks to the veteran composer, ...
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Saturday, October 19th, 2002
His voice speaks a language which communicates melody without the crutch of words. This Padma Bhushan recipient is as complex in the interpretation of his messages as he is simple in the spontaneity of his feelings.
For this singer, composer and poet, life is resonant with the rhythm of recognition. Yet, ...
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