Dreamer of paradise
Poet of achievement
Would you listen to solicitations
Of acrid tongues?
Would you revisit
To make this utterance:
you’d come but once and left forever
Never again to return!
Erecting a pleasure park
At Rajghat, Barakpore
we immortalise
your death!
Author : Navakanta Barua
Nabakanta Barua (29 December 1926 – 14 July 2002) was a prominent Assamese novelist and poet. He was also known as Ekhud Kokaideu. As Sima Dutta he wrote many poems in his early life. He also won the following awards
- 1974: Assam Prakashan Parisod Award, Mur aru Prithibir
- 1975: Sahitya Akademi Award to Assamese Writers, Kokadeutar Har
- 1976: Padma Bhushan, Literature & Education
- 1993: Assam Valley Literary Award
- 1998: Kamal Kumari National Award
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