Chandra Prasad Saikia
Writer from Assam, India
Chandra Prasad Saikia | |
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Born | 8 July 1927 Jalukgaon, Jhanji, Sivasagar district, Assam |
Died | 8 August 2006 (aged 79) |
Occupation | Writer, Editor & Publisher |
Language | Assamese |
Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater | Presidency College, Kolkata |
Notable awards | Assam Valley Literary Award Sahitya Akademi Award Padma Bhushan |
Children | Three |
Chandra Prasad Saikia (1927–2006) was a writer from Assam, India. He was the president of the Asam Sahitya Sabha held at Hajo and Jorhat district, Assam in 1999 and 2000, respectively.[1] Saikia was born on 8 July 1927 in Jalukgaon, Jhanji in Sivasagar district, Assam. After having primary education in Sivasagar he had left for Kolkata for higher education.
Literacy works
- Novels
- Edin
- Meghamallar
- Uttarkal
- Suryasnan
- Mandakranta
- Janmantar
- Maharathi
- Tore More Alokare Yatra
- Short story collections
- Mayamriga
- Nachpati Phool
- Chakrabat
- Angikar
- Chandra Prasad Saikiar Nirbachita Galpa
- Miscellaneous
- Dristikon
- Nirbachita Sampadakiya
- Americar Chithi
Saikia was also editor of various journals and newspapers, including Goriyoshi, The Assam Tribune, Prakash, Natun Dainik, and Asom Batori.
Awards and honours
- Assam Valley Literary Award
- Sahitya Akademi Award
- Padma Bhushan (2007)[2]
- Publication Board Award (2000).
See also
- Assamese literature
- History of Assamese literature
- List of Asam Sahitya Sabha presidents
- List of Assamese writers with their pen names
References
- ^ "Asam Sahitya Sabha is the foremost and the most popular organization of Assam". Vedanti.com. Archived from the original on 26 September 2013. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
- ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
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Padma Bhushan award recipients (2000–2009)
- V. K. Aatre
- Anil Agarwal
- Ram Narain Agarwal
- Sharan Rani Backliwal
- Swami Kalyandev
- Veerendra Heggade
- Pavaguda V. Indiresan
- Wahiduddin Khan
- B. B. Lal
- Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
- H. Y. Sharada Prasad
- Rajinikanth
- Begum Aizaz Rasul
- Radha Reddy
- Raja Reddy
- Pakkiriswamy Chandra Sekharan
- Karamshi Jethabhai Somaiya
- S. Srinivasan
- Ratan Tata
- Harbans Singh Wasir
- Dev Anand
- Viswanathan Anand
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Rahul Bajaj
- B. R. Barwale
- Balasaheb Bharde
- Boyi Bhimanna
- Swadesh Chatterjee
- B. R. Chopra
- Ashok Desai
- K. M. George
- Bhupen Hazarika
- Lalgudi Jayaraman
- Yamini Krishnamurthy
- Shiv K. Kumar
- Raghunath Mohapatra
- Arun Netravali
- Mohan Singh Oberoi
- Rajendra K. Pachauri
- Abdul Karim Parekh
- Amrita Patel
- Pran
- Aroon Purie
- B. V. Raju
- P. Bhanumathi
- Sundaram Ramakrishnan
- Chitranjan Singh Ranawat
- Palle Rama Rao
- Raj Reddy
- Uma Sharma
- L. Subramaniam
- Naresh Trehan
- Gary Ackerman
- H. P. S. Ahluwalia
- Prabha Atre
- Sushantha Kumar Bhattacharyya
- Chandu Borde
- Eugene Chelyshev
- Pravinchandra Varjivan Gandhi
- Shobha Gurtu
- Henning Holck-Larsen
- Zakir Hussain
- B. K. S. Iyengar
- F. C. Kohli
- V. C. Kulandaiswamy
- Gury Marchuk
- Jagat Singh Mehta
- Ismail Merchant
- Mario Miranda
- Frank Pallone
- Ramanujam Varatharaja Perumal
- Natesan Rangabashyam
- Maharaja Krishna Rasgotra
- Habib Tanvir
- K. K. Venugopal
- Nirmal Verma
- K. J. Yesudas
- Teejan Bai
- Ammannur Madhava Chakyar
- Prabhu Chawla
- Herbert Fischer
- Jamshyd Godrej
- Coluthur Gopalan
- K. Parasaran
- B. Rajam Iyer
- Shri Krishna Joshi
- Madurai Narayanan Krishnan
- Rajinder Kumar
- Ramesh Kumar
- Purshotam Lal
- Sitakant Mahapatra
- Bagicha Singh Minhas
- Subhash Mukhopadhyay
- P. S. Narayanaswamy
- Arcot Ramachandran
- Trichur V. Ramachandran
- Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti
- T. V. Sankaranarayanan
- Naseeruddin Shah
- T. V. R. Shenoy
- Jagjit Singh
- Ram Badan Singh
- Hari Shankar Singhania
- Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman
- Narayanan Srinivasan
- Padma Subrahmanyam
- Swapna Sundari
- O. V. Vijayan
- Herbert Alexandrovich Yefremov
- Thoppil Varghese Antony
- Soumitra Chatterjee
- Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari
- Gulzar
- Sardara Singh Johl
- M. V. Kamath
- Komal Kothari
- Yoshirō Mori
- Gopi Chand Narang
- Govindarajan Padmanaban
- Poornima Arvind Pakvasa
- Vishnu Prabhakar
- N. Rajam
- C. H. Hanumantha Rao
- Thiruvengadam Lakshman Sankar
- T. N. Seshagopalan
- Bijoy Nandan Shahi
- Krishna Srinivas
- Alarmel Valli
- Sardar Anjum
- André Beteille
- Chandi Prasad Bhatt
- Tumkur Ramaiya Satishchandran
- Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri
- Yash Chopra
- Manna Dey
- Irfan Habib
- Yusuf Hamied
- Qurratulain Hyder
- Tarlochan Singh Kler
- Anil Kohli
- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
- Mrinal Miri
- Hari Mohan
- Brijmohan Lall Munjal
- M. T. Vasudevan Nair
- Azim Premji
- Balraj Puri
- Syed Mir Qasim
- A. Ramachandran
- G. V. Iyer Ramakrishna
- V. S. Ramamurthy
- K. I. Varaprasad Reddy
- K. Srinath Reddy
- Girish Chandra Saxena
- Narasimaiah Seshagiri
- Mark Tully
- Jaiveer Agarwal
- P. S. Appu
- Shashi Bhushan
- Ganga Prasad Birla
- Grigory Bongard-Levin
- Lokesh Chandra
- Chiranjeevi
- Dinesh Nandini Dalmia
- Tarun Das
- Madhav Gadgil
- A. K. Hangal
- Devaki Jain
- Kamleshwar
- Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan
- Sabri Khan
- Ghulam Mustafa Khan
- Shanno Khurana
- Gunter Kruger
- P. Leela
- K. P. P. Nambiar
- Nandan Nilekani
- Sai Paranjpye
- Deepak Parekh
- M. V. Pylee
- Subramaniam Ramadorai
- N. S. Ramaswamy
- Pavani Parameswara Rao
- Ramakanta Rath
- V. Shanta
- Hira Lall Sibal
- Billy Arjan Singh
- Jasjit Singh
- Vijaypat Singhania
- K. G. Subramanyan
- K. K. Talwar
- Vijay Shankar Vyas
- Dušan Zbavitel
- Javed Akhtar
- Gabriel Chiramel
- Ela Gandhi
- Saroj Ghose
- V. Mohini Giri
- Somnath Hore
- Jamshed Jiji Irani
- Gurcharan Singh Kalkat
- N. Mahalingam
- Prithipal Singh Maini
- Tyeb Mehta
- Rajan and Sajan Mishra
- Rajan and Sajan Mishra
- Sunil Mittal
- Ramankutty Nair
- Gopaldas Neeraj
- Indra Nooyi
- Kavalam Narayana Panicker
- Bhikhu Parekh
- Syed Mohammad Sharfuddin Quadri
- V. S. Ramachandran
- Tapan Raychaudhuri
- S. H. Raza
- Jeffrey Sachs
- Chandra Prasad Saikia
- L. Z. Sailo
- Shiv Kumar Sarin
- Shriram Sharma
- Manju Sharma
- T. N. Srinivasan
- Osamu Suzuki
- K. T. Thomas
- Mian Bashir Ahmed
- Kaushik Basu
- Shayama Chona
- Jagjit Singh Chopra
- Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar
- Chandrashekhar Dasgupta
- Asis Datta
- Meghnad Desai
- Padma Desai
- Sukh Dev
- Nirmal Kumar Ganguly
- B. N. Goswamy
- Vasant Gowarikar
- Baba Kalyani
- K. V. Kamath
- Inderjit Kaur Barthakur
- Ravindra Kelekar
- Asad Ali Khan
- Dominique Lapierre
- D. R. Mehta
- Shiv Nadar
- Suresh Kumar Neotia
- T. K. Oommen
- K. Padmanabhaiah
- Vikram Pandit
- V. Ramachandran
- Sushil Kumar Saxena
- Amarnath Sehgal
- Jasdev Singh
- Shrilal Shukla
- P. Susheela
- S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
- Yuli Vorontsov
- Sunita Williams
- Ji Xianlin
- Isher Judge Ahluwalia
- Inderjit Kaur Barthakur
- Shamshad Begum
- Abhinav Bindra
- Shanta Dhananjayan
- V. P. Dhananjayan
- Ramachandra Guha
- Shekhar Gupta
- Khalid Hameed
- Minoru Hara
- Jayakanthan
- Thomas Kailath
- Sarvagya Singh Katiyar
- G. Krishna
- R. C. Mehta
- A. Sreedhara Menon
- S. K. Misra
- A. M. Naik
- Satish Nambiar
- Kunwar Narayan
- Nagnath Naikwadi
- Kirit Parikh
- Sam Pitroda
- C. K. Prahalad
- Gurdip Singh Randhawa
- Brijendra Kumar Rao
- Bhakta B. Rath
- C. S. Seshadri
- V. Ganapati Sthapati
- Devendra Triguna
- Sarojini Varadappan
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