Jyoti Prasad Saikia

Jyoti Prasad Saikia

Jyoti Prasad Saikia started his career as a journalist in Tripura writing on Bangladesh events in 1970-72. Later, he joined the Government of Assam, and held numerous senior and vital positions; he retired from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in December, 2005. He was also in the high level Assam Administrative Reforms Commission. He is credited with many popular titles including the "Land of Seven Sisters", a coinage that has caught on, stage and radio plays, films/documentaries for the small screen, creative writings in Assamese, Bengali, English. At present, he is writing regular columns and working on proposed serious titles on Northeast India

External links

* [http://assamgovt.nic.in/ Assam Government Website]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем сделать НИР

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Bhabendra Nath Saikia — Born Nagaon, Assam, India Died Guwahati, Assam, India Education [Phd in Physics, Univ of London. Honorary Phd in Literature, Dibrugarh University, Assam, India] Occupatio …   Wikipedia

  • Seven Sister States — The Seven Sister States are a region in northeastern India, comprising the contiguous states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Tripura. The region had a population of 38.6 million in 2000, about 3.8 percent… …   Wikipedia

  • Cinema of Assam — South Asian cinema Cinema of Afghanistan Cinema of Bangladesh Bengali cinema Cinema of India Assamese cinema Bengali cinema Bho …   Wikipedia

  • Assamese cinema — was born in 1935 when Jyoti Prasad Agarwala released his movie Joymoti . [Joymoti (1935) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151153/] , IMDB.com] Since then Assamese cinema has developed a slow paced sensitive style, especially with the movies of… …   Wikipedia

  • List of people from Assam — This is a list of people from Assam, India.Music*Bhupen Hazarika, renowned music composer and Dadasaheb Phalke Award winner *Parveen Sultana, Hindustani Classical musician *Zubeen Garg, popular singer *Anjali Brahma, Popular singer and in whose… …   Wikipedia

  • News Live — Logo Launched January 21, 2008 Owned by Pride East Entertainments Pvt. Ltd. Slogan Pushing Northeast 24X7 Country …   Wikipedia

  • Mamoni Raisom Goswami — Indira Goswami Born 14 November 1942 (1942 11 14) (age 69) Guwahati, India Occupation Activist, editor, poet, professor and writer Nationality Indian …   Wikipedia

  • Assamese literature — is the entire corpus of poetry, novels, short stories, documents etc written in the Assamese language. It also includes such writings and popular ballads in the older forms of the language during its evolution to the contemporary form. The rich… …   Wikipedia

  • Indramalati — Infobox Film name = Indramalati image size = 250px caption = Screenshot director = Jyotiprasad Agarwala producer = Jyotiprasad Agarwala writer = Jyotiprasad Agarwala narrator = starring = Phani Sarma music = Jyotiprasad Agarwala Bhupen Hazarika… …   Wikipedia

  • Nagaon — This article is about the municipality in India. For its namesake district, see Nagaon district. Nagaon   city   …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”