Bhupen Hazarikar Git Aru Jibon Rath Songs and the Chariot of Bhupen Hazarikas Life
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This seventh and final edition of Bhupen Hazarikar Git Aru Jibon Roth came about after the author, late Dr. Dilip Kumar Dutta (January 2, 1939 - September 26, 2019), revised and/or added, some 250 new pages to the previous out-of-print 6th edition. He wrote them over a few years following my father Dr. Bhupen Hazarikas death on November 5th, 2011 in Mumbai. His body was brought home to Guwahati for what was to become his historic public cremation in Jalukbari on November 9th, 2011, when several hundred thousand people from all walks of life and ages attended all day while people all over Assam, inside her Northeastern sister states and as in West Bengal and Bangladesh, mourned his loss publicly. While alive he was already an iconic legend and everywhere young and old joined singing contests to sing his songs. That day, also present, was a forest of journalists and cameramen who recorded the extraordinary event whose archives will reveal for posterity one of the reasons why people keep installing Bhupen Hazarikas statues all over Assam. The Government of Assam spared nothing in affording Bhupenda and his family the highest state funeral, making this spontaneous mass outpouring of grief Indias head-lining news for days and weeks to come.As a greatly loved personality and singer whose hundreds of songs were the background music to so many peoples personal lives, his loss may have somehow struck them as a loss of their own voice. What transpired after the cremation was an intense period of reflection among thinking Indians and politicians as to the possible socio-political significance of such an extraordinary phenomena in the face of Indias and the central governments perception about and relationship with the Northeastern region. While the central government hastened to posthumously award my father the Padma Vibhushan (2012) and then the Bharat Ratna ( 2019 ), Indias highest civilian award, many had wondered before and still do now why it did not
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