A rare honour for anyone, Dada Saheb Phalke award winner and music maestro Bhupen Hazarika unveiled his life-size statue on the banks of the Dighaliphukuhuri tank along GNB Road, Guwahati, Assam on February 16. The fibreglass statue has sculpted by noted Assamese sculptor Biren and installed by the All-Assam Students’ Union (AASU).
For over a half a century, Hazarika has played pied piper to the people of his state, and his voice - through songs, poetry, wrting, lyrics and tunes have reflected the passing of time for his people. Besides his other contributions, he is one of the leading author and poets of Assam and has to his credit more than one thousand lyrics and more than fifteen major books on short stories, essays, travelogues, poems and children’s rhymes. He is an extremely popular journalist and editor of popular monthlies Amar Pratinidhi and Pratidhwani.
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