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Harekrishna Deka is a former member of the
Indian Police Service The Indian Police Service (IPS) is a civil service under the All India Services. It replaced the Indian Imperial Police in 1948, a year after India became Partition of India, independent from the British Empire. Along with the Indian Admini ...
who is now known for his writing. He was the Director General of Police for
Assam Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . It is the second largest state in Northeast India, nor ...
from 2000–2003.


Literary career

Harekrishna Deka started writing poems and short stories in his student days, and continued this as a hobby during his police career. He has won the following awards: * 1987 -
Sahitya Akademi Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...
for his poem ''Ann Ejan'' * 1995 - Katha Award for his short story ''Bandiyar'' (Prisoner) * 2010 - Assam Valley Literary Award After retiring from the police service, Deka briefly edited the English daily ''The Sentinel'' before editing the Assamese literary monthly ''Gariyasi''.


Bibliography


Poetry

* Swarabor (Voices) 1972 * Ratir Sobhajatra (Procession by Night) 1978 * Aan Ejan (Another One), 1986, also translated to Bengali and Oriya * Kabita 1960-1980 (Poems 1960-1980), 2002 * Bhalpoar Babe Exar (A Word for Love), 2003 * Xanmihali Barnamala (Mixed Alphabets), 2010 * Sea-Scare (poems translated to English), 2001


Short stories

* Prakritik aru Anyanya (The Natural and other stories), 1900 * Madhusudanar Dolong (Madhusudan's Bridge), 1992 * Bandiyar (Captive), 1996, Also translated to Oriya * Post-modern athaba Galpa (Post-modern or Short Story), 2001 * Mrityudanda (Death Sentence), 2006 * Galpa aru Kalpa (Story and Fiction), 2009


Literary criticism

* Adhunikatavad aru Anyanya Prabandha (Modernism and other essays), 1998 * Beekson aru Xandhan (Insight and Investigation), 2000 * Dristi aru Sristi (Look and Creation), 2006 * Nilamani Phukan: Kabi aru Kabita (Nilamani Phukan: the poet and his poems), 2010


Novels

* Agantuk (Strangers), 2008


Edited books

*Tarun Prajanmar Kabita (Poetry of the Young Generation), 2005


Translations

* Pratixarita Rashmi (Refracted Light). Translation of poems of Saint John Perse, Yanis Ritsos, Vasco Popa and
Jaroslav Seifert Jaroslav Seifert (; 23 September 1901 – 10 January 1986) was a Czech writer, poet and journalist. Seifert was awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness provides ...
, 1992


Social criticism

* Prabrajan aru Anupravex (Immigration and Infiltration), 2010 * Xarbabhoumatva, Xantraxvad aru Nagarik Xamaj (Sovereignty, Terrorism and Civil Society), 2010


See also

*
North-East India Northeast India, officially the North Eastern Region (NER), is the easternmost region of India representing both a geographic and political administrative division of the country. It comprises eight states—Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, M ...
*
Assamese Literature Assamese literature is the entire corpus of poetry, novels, short stories, plays, documents and other writings in the Assamese language. It also includes the literary works in the older forms of the language during its evolution to the contempor ...
* Literature from North East India


References


General references

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External links


Official Website of Harekrishna Deka

An Introduction to Harekrisha Deka’s Poetry by Prabhat Bora

Harekrishna Deka: In discussion with Uddipana Goswami


* ttp://varnamala.org/harekrishna.html Harekrishna Deka's Poems in Kavitayan
The Prisoner - short story


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