Bhabendra Nath Saikia

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Bhabendra Nath Saikia (1932-2003) was a novelist, short story writer and film director from Assam. He had a DSc in Nuclear Physics from London University and later taught at Gauhati University. He won many literary awards, including Sahitya Academy (1976), and was also recognised with the Padma Shri.

1 Biography
2 Works
3 Awards
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Bhabendra Nath Saikia was born on February 20, 1932 at Nagaon town. He passed Matriculation Examination in 1948 in first division He secured first division in Intermediate Examination in Science in the year 1950 He passed B.Sc. Examination in 1952 with honors in Physics in second class from the Cotton College of Gauhati University He completed his M.Sc. Examination in 1955-56 in Physics in second class from the Presidency college of Calcutta University .He obtained Ph.D. Degree in physics in 1961 from the London University He also obtained Diploma of Imperial College (D.I.C.) of Science & Technology, London in 1961. He worked as reader in Physics in Gauhati University. He became a Member, Sangeet Natak Akademi, India.

Dr. Saikia died on August 13, 2003 in Guwahati and is survived by his wife Preeti Saikia, and Houston based daugters Dr. Sangeeta Saikia and Rashmi Saikia and brother, Dr. Nagen Saikia. His dream project Aarohan is now functioning successfully at Guwahati, Assam.

[edit] Works

He is recognized as one of the top ranking writers of Assam. Many stories have been translated into English, Bengali, Hindi, Telugu,Malayalam, Marathi, Gujrati etc. He had also written a large number of plays for All India Radio. The plays Kolahal, Durbiksha and Itihaas were taken up by the A.I.R. (All India Radio) as national plays. Kolahal was selected for broadcast from foreign centers. He Has been associated actively with the stage as a play writer and director. He has written many plays for 'Mobile Theatre' of Assam, and a number of One Act Plays.

He had directed eight feature films namely Sandhyarag, Anirban, Agnisnan, Kolahal, Sarothi, Abartan and ltihaas in Assamese and Kalsandhya in Hindi. These films have been screened at International Film Festivals held at various places such as Madras, Hyderabad, New Delhi, Bangalore, Calcutta, Karlovy Vary (Czechoslovakia), Nantes (France), Valladolid (Spain), Algiers (Algeria), Pyong Yong (North Korea), Sydney, Munich, Montreal and Toronto. Has also directed one episode of a serial based on Rabindra Nath Tagore's stories for Doordarshan (in Hindi). Seven out of his eight films have been selected for Indian Panorama Section of the International Film Festival of India. • He received the Sahitya Akademi (India) Award in 1976 .The Rajat Kamal Award of the Government of India for the film Sandhyarag in 1978, for the film Anirban in 1981, the for the film Agnisnan in 1985 for the film Kolahal in 1988, for the film Sarothi in 1992, for the film Abartan in 1994, for the film Itihaas in 1996, He was adjudged as one of the "Twenty one Great Assamese Persons of the twentieth century" as literary weekly news magazines of Assam.

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Dr. Bhabendra Nath Saikia is honoured with Srimanta Sankardeva Award, the highest award instituted by the Government of Assam, for the year 1998, Padma Shri by the Government of India in January, 2001 Assam conferred the Degree of D.Litt, honoris causa, on Dr. Saikia in recognition of his outstanding contribution in cinema and literature on the day of the Eighth Convocation held on October 18, 2001.

[edit] External links

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