Hem Baruah-Brief Life Sketch
Hem Baruah-Brief Life Sketch
Hem Baruah-Brief Life Sketch
Hem Baruah (1915-1977) was an Assamese politician, poet and writer. He was born in Tezpur. He passed the...
Dimbeshwar Neog-Brief Life Sketch
Dimbeshwar Neog-Brief Life Sketch
Dimbeshwar Neog-Brief Life Sketch
Dimbeshwar Neog (1899-1966) was an Assamese poet, critic, researcher and historian. He was born in the Kamardafiya village...
Nilmoni Phukan-Brief Life Sketch
Nilmoni Phukan-Brief Life Sketch
Nilmoni Phukan-Brief Life Sketch
Nilmoni Phukan (1880-1978) was an Assamese poet, prolific storyteller and orator. He was born in Dibrugarh. His father’s...
Harekrishna Deka-Brief Life Sketch
Harekrishna Deka-Brief Life Sketch
Harekrishna Deka
Harekrishna Deka-Brief Life Sketch
Harekrishna Deka (1943 -) is an Assamese poet, magazine editor and storyteller. He was born in Trinichukiya....
Holiram Dhekial Phukan-Brief Life Sketch
Holiram Dhekial Phukan-Brief Life Sketch
Holiram Dhekial Phukan
Holiram Dhekial Phukan-Brief Life Sketch
Holiram Dhekial Phukan (1802-1832) was an Assamese lawyer and writer. His father’s name was...
Devakanth Baruah-Brief Life Sketch
Devakanth Baruah-Brief Life Sketch
Devakanth Baruah
Devakanth Baruah-Brief Life Sketch
Devakanta Baruah (1914-1996) was an Assamese romantic poet, politician and educationist. He was born in Dibrugarh. He...
Raghunath Chaudhary-Brief Life Sketch
Raghunath Chaudhary-Brief Life Sketch
Raghunath Chaudhary
Raghunath Chaudhary-Brief Life Sketch
Raghunath Chaudhary (1879-1968) was an Assamese romantic poet. He was born in a village called Laupara near...
Kabiraj Chakraborty-Brief Life Sketch
Kabiraj Chakraborty-Brief Life Sketch
Kabiraj Chakraborty
Kabiraj Chakraborty-Brief Life Sketch
Kabiraj Chakrabarty was an Assamese poet of the eighteenth century. He introduces himself, in the poem entitled...
Ajan Fakir-Brief Life Sketch
Ajan Fakir-Brief Life Sketch
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Ajan Fakir was an Islamic saint. He came to Assam from Arabia in the early seventeenth century to...
Bhattadev-Brief Life Sketch
Bhattadev-Brief Life Sketch
Bhattadev-Brief Life Sketch
The full name of Bhattadev (1558-1638 A D), the father of Assamese prose, is Vaikuntha Ram Bhagwat Bhattacharya. He was...
Sankaradeva-Brief Life Sketch
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Sankaradeva
Sankaradeva-Brief Life SketchÂ
Sankaradeva (1449-1568) was the founder of Neo Vaishnavism, writer and social reformer. He was born in Alipukhuri, Bardowa in the...
Sridhar Kandoli-Brief Life Sketch
Sridhar Kandoli-Brief Life Sketch
Sridhar Kandoli-Brief Life Sketch
Sridhar Kandoli is a great post-Sankari Assamese Vaishnavite poet. The influence of Vaishnavism is evident in his poetry....
Madhav Kandali-Brief Life Sketch
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Madhav Kandali-Brief Life Sketch
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Eleanore Farjeon-Brief Life Sketch
Eleanore Farjeon-Brief Life Sketch
Eleanore Farjeon-Brief Life Sketch
Eleanore Farjeon was an English female poet, storyteller and playwright. She was born on 13 February 1881 in...
Wilfred Owen-Brief Life Sketch
Wilfred Owen-Brief Life Sketch
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Wilfred Owen-Brief Life Sketch
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was an English soldier and poet. He wrote poetry on the theme of war. He...
Wole Soyinka-Brief Life Sketch
Wole Soyinka-Brief Life Sketch
Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka-Brief Life Sketch
Wole Soyinka (1935-) was a Nigerian poet, essayist, dramatist and critic. He was born near Ibadan in...
Virginia Woolf-Brief Life Sketch
Virginia Woolf-Brief Life Sketch
Virginia Woolf-Brief Life Sketch
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English novelist of the stream-of-consciousness genre. She was born in South Kensington, London....
Nirmalprabha Bardoloi-Brief Life Sketch
Nirmalprabha Bardoloi-Brief Life Sketch
Nirmalprabha Bardoloi, Nirmalprabha Bardoloi-Brief Life Sketch
Nirmalprabha Bardoloi-Brief Life Sketch
Nirmalaprabha Baradoloi (1933-2004) was an Assamese poet, lyricist and research scholar. She was...
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