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-Brief Life SketchÂ
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
Sankaradeva-Brief Life SketchÂ
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
Madhav Kandali0-Brief Life Sketch
Madhav Kandali-Brief Life Sketch
Madhav Kandali was a great Assamese poet of the pre-Sankari Age. He was patronized by the fourteenth-century Barahi...
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...
Roger Mais-Brief Life Sketch
Roger Mais-Brief Life Sketch
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Roger Mais-Brief Life Sketch
Roger Mais (1905-1955) was a Jamaican short story writer, journalist, poet, playwright, and novelist. He was born into...
Rabindranath Tagore-Brief Life Sketch
Rabindranath Tagore-Brief Life Sketch
Rabindranath Tagore-Brief Life Sketch
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Nobel Prize awardee Indian Bengali writer, musician, artist, social reformer, intellectualist, educationalist and...
Premchand-Brief Life Sketch
Premchand-Brief Life Sketch
Premchand-Brief Life Sketch
Premchand (1880-1936), real name Dhanpat Rai was an Indian short-story teller, novelist and essayist who wrote profusely in both Urdu...
Omprakash Valmiki-Brief Life Sketch
Omprakash Valmiki-Brief Life Sketch
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Omprakash Valmiki-Brief Life Sketch
Omprakash Valmiki (1950-2013) was an Indian Hindi Writer. He was born in a village near Muzzafarnagar in Uttar...
Nabakanta Baruah-Brief Life Sketch
Nabakanta Baruah-Brief Life Sketch
Nabakanta Baruah-Brief Life Sketch
Nabakanta Barua (29 December 1926 – 14 July 2002) was a prominent Assamese poet and novelist. He is...
Nalinibala Devi-Brief Life Sketch
Nalinibala Devi-Brief Life Sketch
Nalinibala Devi-Brief Life Sketch
Nalinibala Devi (1898– 1977 was an Indian -Assamese biographer and mystical female poet. She was born in Guwahati...
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