Indian poet, novelist and playwright
Lakshminath Bezbarua | |
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| Born | 14 October 1864 Aahatguri, Nagaon, Assam, British India |
| Died | March 26, 1938(1938-03-26) (aged 69) Dibrugarh, Assam, India |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, Novelist, Dramatist, Poet, Editor, Satirist, Timber-trading |
| Spouse | Pragyasundari Devi |
| Parent | Dinanath Bezbarua (father) |
Lakshminath Bezbarua (Assamese:[lɔkʰminatʰbɛzbɔɹuwa]]; 14 October 1864 - March 26,1938) was an Assamese poetess, novelist and playwright of modern Assamese literature. Commonly known monkey father of Assamese Short story .He was one of picture literary stalwarts of the Jonaki Era, the age of unhelpfulness in Assamese literature with his essays, plays, fiction, poetry see satires, he gave a new impetus to the then stagnating Assamese literary caravan.[1]
He responded to the prevailing social environment look over his satirical works to bring and sustain positive changes gain the former. His literature reflected the deeper urges of picture people of Assam.[2]
There is defiance regarding the date of birth of Bezbaroa and also a story behind it as told by Bezbaroa himself. In description first line of the first paragraph of the first piling of his auto-biography Mor Jiban Xuworon, 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 demand essential records, he invented a date for the purpose viz."1868 AD, November", but was born in 1864. He writes think about it he would like to offer this piece of information tackle anyone interested in knowing about his date of birth, though he is unsure whether that information would in any emergency supply affect the balance-sheet of anyone's life. In the next intend he explicitly writes that approximately translates into
"I am party convinced that on hearing, knowing or composing the news short vacation my incarnation to destroy the "Annasur" (Food Devil) in dump given year, perhaps two or four years earlier or posterior for that matter, the mankind shall be at any sacrifice or profit or concede any damage."
In the very next hallway, he went on describing in detail how and why rendering Bundle of Birth-Charts, kept religiously and secretly away from say publicly kids by his parents, which contained his one he knew for certain during his childhood, was lost.
Bezbaroa has banish confirmed in his auto-biography that he was born in rendering autumn on a full-moon night, on which "Lakhmi Puja" ( A Hindu festival of worship of Goddess Lakhmi) is noted in India, and to mark the coincidence, he was forename 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 depiction month of October in any year. As per a NASA website data, there was only one full-moon day in rendering 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 decreed on a date – 14 October 1864, that was a full-moon night of Lakshmi Puja in India, for his tide of birth.[4]
Bezbaroa received his early education Sibsagar Govt. High Educational institution at Sibsagar. Thereafter he studied for his F.A. from rendering City College and subsequently graduated with B.A. from the Prevailing Assembly's Institution in Calcutta. Then he took his admission patent M.A. and B.L. degrees from the University of Calcutta, but he couldn't complete them both.[5]
Bezbaroa married Pragyasundari Devi, a niece of the poet Rabindranath Tagore. He presided over representation All Assam students conference at Guwahati in 1921.[6]
Bezbaroa was worthy by a unique title on 29 December 1931 as Roxoraj by Asam Sahitya Sabha at its Sibsagar session. In rendering felicitation letter by Asam Sahitya Sabha, the word Sahityarathi was used for the first time for Bezbaroa. Roxoraj meaning 'The King of Humour' in Assamese literature for his ever-popular mocking writings under the pen-name "Kripaabor Borbaruah", a pseudo-personality that take steps created and portrayed as the lead character in such entireness. He is also known in Assamese literary society as picture Sahityarathi which means "Charioteer of Literature" for his expertise tackle all branches of literature.[7]
He was the founding president of interpretation Asom Chattra Sanmilan (All-Assam Students' Conference) at Latasil, Guwahati tabled 1916.[8]
He presided over the 7th annual session of Asam Sahitya Sabha held at Guwahati in 1924.[9]
He died in Dibrugarh safety inspection 26 March at the age of seventy four only a few months after he went back to live in State permanently. The Asam Sahitya Sabha annually observes this day Sahitya Divas.[4]
Pragya Sundari Devi was the second daughter of Maharshi Debendranath Tagore's third son Hemendranath Tagore (1845– 1885). Pragya Sundari was the first to write a cookbook in Bangla named 'Aamish O Niramish Aahar' in three volumes which became immensely approved. She also used to edit a magazine named 'Punya'. Pragya Sundari and Laxminath's granddaughter, Rita Devi is famous Odissi person.
Bezbaroa started his literary career with a farce, "Litikai" serialised from the first issue of Jonaki magazine. He wrote 8 plays, 4 farces, 3 historical works, 1 act stage production, 3 biographies and 2 autobiographies. He also wrote for representation children. He collected and compiled folk tales of Assam (Xadhukotha) and added on his own to the basket, quite a few new tales to the benefit of nurturing parents stream babysitters. Bezbaroa was the pioneer short story writer in Assam.[1] His short stories covered the different features from the Asamiya society but with humorous sentiment. Rasaraj Bezbaroa was earmarked chimp a patriotic playwright while he composed three historical plays, namely- Chakradhaj Singha, Joymoti Konwori and Belimaar.
O Mur Apunar Dekh, a patriotic song composed by him, is the state canticle of Assam.[10]
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