Google Doodle pays tribute to Dr Bhupen Hazarika

September 8, 2022

Search engine giant Google honored Dr Bhupen Hazarika on his 96th birth anniversary (8 September 1926) with a doodle on its webpage. The doodle has been created by Mumbai-based guest artist Rutuja Mali.

About Bhupen Hazarika

Born in 1926 in Sadiya, Assam, Dr. Bhupen Hazarika is today a stalwart in the archives of India’s cultural heritage.
He is popularly known as Sudhakantha, which means Nightingale.
A versatile talent, he is a fine poet, musician, singer, actor, journalist, writer and filmmaker of the highest order.
He is the only living pioneer of Assam’s film industry in the Northeast, and therefore, has been appropriately acclaimed as the uncrowned king of the cultural world of North-East India.
He was most popular in Bengal and Bangladesh and was responsible for introducing the culture and folk music of Assam and Northeast India to Hindi cinema.
In 1999, he was appointed as the President of the Sangeet Natak Akademi for a period of five years by the Hon’ble President of India.
Apart from this, he was honored with many prestigious awards like Asom Ratna in 2009 and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in the same year, Padma Bhushan in 2011.
In the year 2019, he was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award.

« Previous Post Next Post »