Dhirendra Nath Bezbaruah Explained

Dhirendra Nath Bezboruah
Birth Date:	1933
Birth Place:	Jorhat, Assam, India
Occupation:	Journalist Writer
Yearsactive:	83
Known For:	Founder editor of The Sentinel
Spouse:	Kalpana Bezboruah
Children:	Gayatri Bezboruah, Maitreyi Roy, Bhaskar Bezboruah
Parents:	Late Surendra Nath Bezboruah, Late Kamala Bezboruah
Awards:	Padma Shri B. D. Goenka Award Katha Award Nachiketa Samman

Dhirendra Nath Bezboruah is an Indian journalist, writer and the founder editor of The Sentinel, a Guwahati-based English language daily.^[1] Born in 1933 in the Jorhat district of the northeast Indian state of Assam, he started his career as a lecturer, after completing his post graduate studies at Reading University, UK.^[2] When The Sentinel daily was established in 1983, he was selected as the founder editor, a post he held for a number of years.^[3] He was associated with the Media Trust, Assam and was the working president of its celebration committee in 1992.^[4] The many books he has published from Assamese into English includes The Cavern and Other Stories, a short story anthology written by Bhabendra Nath Saikia.^[5] He received the B. D. Goenka Award for Journalism in 1997 and the Nachiketa Samman of Panchjanya weekly in 2001.^[6] He is also recipient of Katha Award for translation. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2016, for his contributions to literature.^[7]

See also

• The Sentinel
• Bhabendra Nath Saikia

External links

• Web site: Ex-NEHU teacher gets Padma Shri . The Shillong Times . 26 January 2016 . 25 July 2016 . 10 January 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170110031049/http://www.theshillongtimes.com/2016/01/26/ex-nehu-teacher-gets-padma-shri/ . dead .
• Book: Dr KH Kabi. Dr. S N Pattnaik. Media, Conflict and Peace in Northeast India. 24 July 2015. Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. 978-93-84464-44-8. 49–.

Notes and References

1. Web site: This Is How Assam Shines Bright on the 67th Republic Day Today . Bordoisila . 26 January 2016 . 25 July 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160820042937/http://bordoisila.in/social/This-Is-How-Assam-Shines-Bright-on-the-67th-Republic-Day-Today.-Elated!.php . 20 August 2016 . dead .
2. Book: Robin S. Ngangom. Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from North-East India. 2009. Penguin Books India. 978-0-14-310220-5. 323–.
3. Web site: Padma Sri for DN Bezbaruah, three others . The Sentinel . 25 January 2016 . 25 July 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160815211525/http://www.sentinelassam.com/mainnews/story.php?sec=1&subsec=0&id=255273&dtP=2016-07-07&ppr=1#.V5ZQ_7h97IU . 15 August 2016 . dead .
4. Web site: History . Media Trust . 2016 . 25 July 2016.
5. Book: The Cavern and Other Stories . Nirvana Sutra . Bhabendra Nath Saikia (Author), D.N. Bezboruah (Translator) . 2012 . 154 . B008IPFTJG.
6. Web site: BJP suffers because of setting high standards of probity for itself . Hindu Vivek Kendra . April 2001 . 25 July 2016.
7. Web site: Padma Awards . Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India . 2016 . 3 January 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170803085913/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/PadmaAwards_25012016.pdf . 3 August 2017 . dead .