Bhupen Hazarika

Month: July 2008

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    Dear Administrator: Congratulations,  and Thank you for your superb job  with the BH page. A few years ago I happened to bump into an old article by Bhupen’da  himselfin the library of  Sudhakar Bhatt, a retired economist and a neighbor of ours  then in Naples.  Mr. Bhatt  went to school with BH at Columbia Univ,…

  • PROFILE: BHUPEN HAZARIKA

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    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 was cold, there was no one…

  • MEANINGS FOR MILLIONS

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    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 his times; why the sweat of his brow is…