Bhaben Barua

Bhaben Barua is an Assamese poet born in 1939.[1]

Biography

Barua was born 16 February 1939 at Janji, in the Jorhat sub-division of the Sibasagar district.[2]

Education

He attended Boragaon Village Primary School (Janji) for four years (1944 to 1947), and Bamunpukhuri High School (Janji)(1948 to 1951). He passed the M. E. Standards in the First Division from the Jorhat Sub-division. He studied at Cotton Collegiate School (Guwahati) from 1952 to 1956 and passed in 1956 the Matriculation Examination in the first division with a merit scholarship. From 1958 to 1960 he studied art at Jagannath Barua College (Jorhat) on a merit scholarship. He got his BA in English from Schotish Church College (Calcutta) in 1960. Starting in 1961 he studied for his MA in English literature at Delhi University, and graduated in 1963.

Career

He worked for a year as a high school teacher, and then as a news reader for All India Radio, Delhi (1961–1963). He became a lecturer in English literature at the Punjabi University of Patiala in 1963, and joined the Gauhati University in 1964, whence he retired as Professor of English in 2003. From 1998 to 2000 he was a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study.

Publications

(i) Poetry (in Axomiya)[3] (ii) Literary Criticism (in Axomiya as well as English) (iii) Philosophy (in Axomiya as well as English) (iv) History (in Axomiya as well as English) (v) Many Lectures on English Language, English Literature and American Literature in the post-Graduate Department of Gauhati University (1964–2003). (vi) Editor of (a) Sanglap (in Axomiya), (b) Assam Quarterly (In English), (c) Assam Academy Review (In English), (d) Journal of the University of Gauhati : Arts (in English) (Maheswar Neog and Bhaben Barua jointly edited the two volumes of this journal), (e) Sudarshan (in English), (f) Natun Parjyayar Sanglap (in Axomiya) (vii) Organizations : (1) Muktadhara, (2) Axom Darshan Sangstha, (3) Sudarshan (2001), (4) Pragjyotish Foundation (2009)

Awards
  • Assam Publication Board Literary Award, 1978[4] - for the book of poems "Sonali Jahaj".
  • Sahitya Akademi Award, 1979[4] - for "Sonali Jahaj" (the first book of the post-second world war Modern Axomiya Poetry to receive this award)
  • 5th Padmanath Vidyabinod Memorial Literary Award (2014)

Bibliography

(Natun Prithivi (in Assamese), published when he was studying in class VIII) (i) Sonali Jahaj (in Assamese) (ii) Pondharata Kabita (in Assamese) (iii) Baga Jui Kola Jui Aru Anyanya Kabita (in Assamese) (iv) Axomiya Kabita : Rupantarar Parba (in Assamese) (v) Axomiya Kabita : Bivartanar Parba (in Assamese) (vi) Prasanga : Kabita (in Assamese) (vii) Prasanga : Banikanta (in Assamese) (viii) Prasanga : Jyotiprasad (in Assamese) (ix) Prasanga : Bhabendranath (in Assamese) (x) Axomor Bouddhik Duravasthar Prasangat (in Assamese) (xi) Language and the National Question in Northeast India (in English)[5] (xii) Science, Poetry and Politics (in English)

References
  1. Nalini Natarajan, Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, ed. (1 January 1996). Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 37. ISBN 9780313287787. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  2. Board of Editors : Dr. Dipok Sen, Dr. Rajen Saikia, Sri Lakshmindra Hazarika, Sri Bharadraj Mrinal Choudhury, Smti Jaya Bharali Hazarika, "An Outstanding Modern Indian", Published by Giripada Choudhury representing "Prakashika" and "Bani Prakash", Panbazar, Guwahati-1, Axom
  3. Nilamoni Phukon ed. "Kuri Xotikar Axomiya Kobita", Assam Publication Board, Aug. 1977
  4. Sleeman, Elizabeth (ed.). International Who's Who in Poetry 2004. London: Europa Publications. p. 24.
  5. Barua, Bhaben (1980). Language and the National Questions in Northeast India (1st ed.). Panbazar, Guwahati: Bani Prakash. p. 34.
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