Today is the fourteenth death anniversary of Dr. Bhupen Hazarika

Today is the 14th death anniversary of Sudhakantha Dr Bhupen Hazarika. On the occasion of his death anniversary, tributes were organized in different parts of the state. In each district headquarters, about 5000 people performed the song 'Manuhe Manuhor Babe' with the help of the administration.

Similarly, the district office of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Guwahati also paid tribute to Sudhakantha by singing 'Manuhe Manuhor Babe' in the morning. Guwahati Mayor Mrigen Sarania, Kamrup (Metro) district BJP President Tapan Das, General Secretary Bijoy Medhi and other BJP workers were present on the occasion.

        Dr. Bhupen Hazarika was born on September 8, 1926. He had passion for cinema, politics, music and literature. 

In the field of literature and culture, Dr. Hazarika is respected not only in Assam but throughout India and around the world.

His songs, based on the themes of communal amity, universal justice and empathy are especially popular among the people of Assam, West Bengal and Bangladesh. He is also acknowledged to have introduced the culture and folk music of Assam and Northeast India to Hindi cinema at the national level. He received the National Film Award for Best Music Direction in 1975, the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1987), Padma Shri (1977), and Padma Bhushan (2001), Dada Saheb Phalke Award (1992), the highest award for cinema in India and Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (2008), the highest award of the Sangeet Natak Akademi. He was posthumously awarded both the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award, in 2012 and the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award in 2019. Hazarika also held the position of the Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi from December 1998 to December 2003.

On 30 June 2011, he was admitted to Kokila Ben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Mumbai. And after a long time, he breathed his last on November 5, 2011. There was a flood of grief on the day his mortal remains were brought to Guwahati. There was a sea of people on the Judge field. His funeral took place on November 9, 2011.