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List Of People From Assam
This is a list of notable People of Assam, people from Assam, India. Administrators, diplomats and justices Academicians and scholars Performing artists Actors and models Film directors Musicians Activists Journalists Writers Poets Historical figures Politicians Religious leaders Sports Archer * Jayanta Talukdar Athletes * Tayabun Nisha * Bhogeswar Baruah, won gold medal at 1966 Asian Games * Hima Das Badminton player * Dipankar Bhattacharjee, Indian badminton player * Ashmita Chaliha Boxers * Jamuna Boro * Shiva Thapa * Lovlina Borgohain, won a bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics Bodybuilding * Mahadev Deka * Gautam Kalita Cricketers * Abu Nechim Ahmed, First Assamese IPL player and former Mumbai Indians fast bowler. * Javed Zaman, He was Assam's first List A Player and greatest fast bowler from Assam [1] * Gokul Sharma * Riyan Parag,. plays for Rajasthan Royals in Indian Premier League, IPL and Indian international cricketer. * Jogeswar Bhumij ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Of Assam
The People of Assam inhabit a multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic and multi-religious society. They speak languages that belong to four main language groups: Tibeto-Burman, Indo-Aryan, Tai-Kadai, and Austroasiatic. The large number of ethnic and linguistic groups, the population composition, and the peopling process in the state has led to it being called an "India in miniature". The peopling of Assam was understood in terms of racial types based on physical features, types that were drawn by colonial administrator Risley. These classifications are now considered to have little validity, and they yield inconsistent results; the current understanding is based on ethnolinguistic groups and in consonance with genetic studies. Peopling of Assam Geographically Assam, in the middle of Northeast India, contains fertile river valleys surrounded and interspersed by mountains and hills. It is accessible from Tibet in the north (via Bum La, Se La, Tunga), across the Patkai in the Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nabakanta Barua
Nabakanta Barua (29 December 1926 – 14 July 2002) was a prominent Assamese novelist and poet. He was also known as Ekhud Kokaideu. As Sima Dutta he wrote many poems in his early life. Biography Early life Nabakanta Barua was born 29 December 1926 in Guwahati to Nilakanta Barua, a school inspector and later teacher, and Swarnalata Baruani. He had three brothers: Devakanta, Jivakanta, and Sivakanta. Dev Kant Barua, the eldest among the brothers was the President of the Indian National Congress during the Indian Emergency (1975-1977) and served as the Governor of Bihar from 1 February 1971 to 4 February 1973. Dev Kant Barua was also a well-known poet, best known for ''Sagor dekhisa'', a collection of Assamese poems. At first the family lived in upper Assam, then moved to Puranigudam and lastly lived in Nagaon town. Education He started his education at a nearby school, then joined govt. Mojolia school. In 1933 he was admitted to Nagaon govt. boys in class 3, from there he c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kashmiri Saikia Baruah
Kashmiri Saikia Baruah is an Indian film and stage actress and singers who works in Assamese cinema. She was born in Mangaldoi, Assam. She has played stellar roles in award-winning Assamese films such as ''Putola Ghar'', ''Sandhya Raag'', '' Agnisnaan'' and '' Hkhagoroloi Bohu Door.'' Education and career She started her schooling in her home-town Mangaldoi and later finished her graduation from Cotton College, Guwahati in 1981. Her first appearance in Assamese cinema was seen as a casual artist in a group of dancers in a popular, song ''Aei Purnimar Raati'' in an award-winning Assamese film ''Aranya'', in 1971. She was still a school girl when she made her debut as a lead actress in the film directed by Samarendra Narayan Dev titled ''Putola Ghar'', released in 1976. A year later, in 1977, the film ''Sandhya Raag'' directed by Bhabendra Nath Saikia, where she was an actress, became the first Assamese movie to be screened in Indian Panorama. Her career in Assamese film In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamuna Baruah
Jamuna Barua (10 October 1919 – 24 November 2005) was a leading Indian actress. Early life Jamuna was the fourth of the six daughters of Puran Gupta, a resident of a village near Agra, India. Each of the sisters was named after an Indian river like Ganga, Jamuna, Bhagirathi etc. As destiny would have it, Jamuna came to reside in Calcutta, a leading film producing city in India. Originally from Gauripur of Assam's Goalpara district (undivided), Jamuna was married to the legendary actor director Pramathesh Barua, or P.C. Barua, who died in 1950. She began her acting career in her husband's famous production ''Devdas'' in 1936 and was the film's lead character Parvati or Paro. She went on to make a number of memorable movies in Bengali and Hindi, notably ''Amiri'', ''Mukti'', ''Adhikar'' and ''Sesh Uttar''. She stopped acting after Barua died. Film career Jamuna made her film debut in the 1930s and played a small role in Mohabbat Ki Kasauti (1934), Hindi version of Roop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pramathesh Barua
Pramathesh Chandra Barua (24 October 1903 – 29 November 1951) was an Indian actor, director, and screenwriter of Indian films in the pre-independence era, born in Gauripur, Assam, Gauripur, Dhubri district, Dhubri, Assam. Early life Barua was the son of the royal family of Gauripur, Assam, Gauripur (belongs to Gauripur Rajvansh), Dhubri, Assam. His father Raja Prabhat Chandra Barua was a zamindar of Gauripur, Assam and mother Sorojbala. Pramathesh Barua was born in Gauripur and spent his childhood. He studied at Hare School, Calcutta and then Bachelor of Science graduated from Presidency College, Calcutta in 1924. At age 18, while still studying in college, he got married. It was arranged by the family. He had two more marriages. His third wife was film actress Jamuna Barua. One of his wives, either Madhuri Lata or Amalabala, and singer Meena Kapoor's mother were sisters. In other words, one of his wives was Meena Kapoor's aunt. After his graduation, he travelled to Europe, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kumud Kalita
Kumud Kalita (born 1 April 1964) is an Indian educator, social worker, and founder of Tapoban, a home for children with special needs and orphans. After starting his career as a teacher at Pathsala Mahavidyalaya in 1988, he dedicated his life to social service, particularly focusing on child welfare and disability support. Early life and education Kumud Kalita was born on 1 April 1964, in Nizsaldah, a small village in Assam's Barpeta district to a farming family. His parents, Late Ramdas Kalita and Surabhi Kalita, struggled to make ends meet. Despite financial challenges, Kalita completed his matriculation in 1979 and graduated in 1984. He earned a Master of Arts degree in political science from Gauhati University in 1988. During his university years, he worked as a daily laborer and in a restaurant to support his education. His association with Assam Sishu Kalyan Sadan in Sundarbari and SOS Village near Borjhar Airport deeply influenced his commitment to social service. Caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indira Miri
Indira Miri (1910–2004), popularly known as Mereng, was an Indian educationist from Assam, known for her efforts in promoting education in the North East Frontier Agency. She was a recipient of the fourth highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Shri. Biography Indira Senapati alias Indira Miri was born to Brittial Bania/ Bania, an indigenous schedule caste community of Assam. Born in 1910 in Shillong, Miri lost her mother at an early age and was brought up by her father, Sonadhar Senapati, who sent her to Kolkata for school and college studies which she started at Bethune School and completed with a BA from Scottish Church College. Later she obtained a degree in education (BT) from St. Mary's College of Teacher Education, Guwahati and did advanced training course in Montessori system in Ahmedabad on a government scholarship where she was trained by Maria Montessori. Another government scholarship helped her to travel to the UK to secure a master's degree from the University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhabendra Nath Saikia
Bhabendra Nath Saikia (20 February 1932 – 13 August 2003) was a novelist, short-story writer, editor and film director from Assam, India. Saikia received his doctorate in physics from the University of London. He began his career as a reader in the Department of Physics, University of Guwahati. He later played an important role in the publication of college level textbooks in the Assamese language during his tenure as the Secretary of the Co-ordination Committee for production of textbooks in regional languages.He was the pioneering motive behind the publication of college level textbooks in Assamese language during his tenure as the Secretary of the Co-ordination Committee for production of textbooks in regional languages. Saikia was the founding editor of the Assamese language weekly Prantik and the children's magazine Safura. He has written plays for radio and theatre. He was the director and screenplay writer for eight Assamese language films, receiving the Rajat Kama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mrinal Miri
Mrinal Miri (born 1 August 1940) is an Indian philosopher and educationalist. Early life He was awarded a BA in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in 1966 and gained his doctorate in 1970. Career From 1970 to 1974 he was a lecturer in philosophy at St. Stephen's College under the University of Delhi, before moving to North Eastern Hill University. Mrinal also served as the director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, from 1993 to 1999. He was nominated as a member of Rajya Sabha on 21 March 2012. He has been awarded a Padma Bhushan for his contribution in the field of education and literature. He was a member of the National Advisory Council established by the Manmohan Singh Manmohan Singh (26 September 1932 – 26 December 2024) was an Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician, and statesman, who served as the prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He was the fourth longest-serving prime minister after Jaw ... UPA I government. He is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jugal Kalita
Jugal Kalita is a professor and department chair of computer science at the College of Engineering and Applied Science within the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS). Academics Jugal Kalita completed his school from Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith, Deoghar in present day Jharkhand, India. Jugal Kalita is founder of the Language Information and Computation (LINC) Lab at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs ( UCCS). Authorship * ''On Perl: Perl for Students and Professionals'', 2003, Universal Publishers * ''Network Anomaly Detection: A Machine Learning Perspective'', with Dhruba K. Bhattacharyya, 2013, CRC Press * ''DDOS Attacks: Evolution, Detection, Prevention, Reaction and Tolerance'', with Dhruba K. Bhattacharyya, 2016, CRC Press * ''Network Traffic Anomaly Detection and Prevention: Concepts, Techniques, and Tools'', with Monowar H. Bhuyan and Dhruba K. Bhattacharyya, 2017, Springer Nature * ''Gene Expression Data Analysis: A Statistical and Machine Lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Institute Of Advanced Study
The Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS) is a research institute located in Shimla, India. It was set up by the Ministry of Education, Government of India in 1964 and started functioning from 20 October 1965. History and establishment The building that houses the institute was originally built as a home for Lord Dufferin, Viceroy of India from 1884 to 1888, and was called the Viceregal Lodge. It housed all the subsequent viceroys and governors-general of India. It occupies Observatory Hill, one of the seven hills that Shimla is built upon. The building was designed by Henry Irwin, an architect in the Public Works Department. The Viceregal Lodge had electricity as early as 1888, much before the rest of the town of Shimla. The building also was equipped with a sophisticated firefighting mechanism through wax-tipped water ducts. Many historic decisions were taken in the building during the Indian independence movement. The Simla Conference, to discuss self-rule for India, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Institute Of Management Kashipur
Indian Institute of Management Kashipur also known as IIM Kashipur, is a public business school located in Kashipur, Uttarakhand, Kashipur, Uttarakhand, India. It is one of the thirteen Indian Institutes of Management the government has set up during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan (India), Eleventh Five-Year Plan. The foundation stone of the institute was laid on 29 April 2011. This autonomous institute offers a two-year Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM), a two-year Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management (EPGPM), a residential Fellowship Programme in Management (FPM, equivalent to PhD) and a non-residential doctoral Executive Fellowship Programme in Management (EFPM). Campus IIM Kashipur operates from a campus of located in Kashipur, Uttarakhand. Organisation and administration Governance Dr Somnath Chakrabarti is the director-in-charge of the institute. Mr. Sandeep Singh is the Interim Chairman of the board of governors for the institute. Dr Somnath Chakra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
