Guwahati: Popular numbers of colossal musician and cultural icon from the region,Bhupen Hazarika were hummed throughout Assam where people from all walks of life remeberd and paid tributes the artiste of their heart on his fourth death anniversary on Thursday.
Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday dedicated the newly-constructed Bhupen Hazarika memorial which has been built at the site where the musician was cremated, to the nation.
A 10-feet tall bronze statue of Dr Hazarika has also been unveiled at the site which was thrown open for the visitors on Thursday.
Gogoi announced that Assam government would set up Bhupen Hazarika Memorial Society with an initial coffer of Rs 10 crore to promote ad popularize the works of Hazarika globally.
He pledged initiative to facilitate setting up of an institution of sort at Columbia University in the US where the cultural icon had successfully done his research in mass communication. “We will try to make Dr Hazarika’s presence felt in every important city in the country. We will request Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal to name a road in the national capital after Bhupen Hazarika,” Gogoi said.
“Dr Hazarika was a global citizen with a big heart who tried his best to promote universal brotherhood through his songs. He showed us the way how conflicts within the mankind could be resolved through the spirit of universal brotherhood. The people of Assam should take pride that such a towering global personality called Dr Bhupen Hazarika comes of this place. The best way to show respect to the cultural icon is to show love and concerns for fellow people wherein the key to resolve differences and conflicts lies,” Gogoi said.
Asam Sahitya Sabha, the apex literary organization in Assam, on Thursday orgainsed a solemn but magnificent function in Gauhati University where Hazarika used to teach for some time, to remember the Bard of Brahmaputra, A large number of former and present students and teachers of the varsity attended the function and lent voice to the chorus – “Jilkaba Luitora Par —-“, the theme song of the varsity that was composed and sung first by Dr Hazarika in 1948 when the varsity was established.
