HT Bureau
GUWAHATI, March 15: The Moghai Oja Kalakhetra has conferred the Ganashilpi Moghai Oja Award 2025 on Syed Sadulla, the former director of Akashvani Dibrugarh Centre and a noted artiste, said an official statement on Saturday.
As per the statement, the award will be conferred on Sadulla on April 19 during Bohagi Utsav celebrations.
“The announcement came on the occasion of the people’s artiste Moghai Oja’s 45th death anniversary,”the statement quoted Kalakhetra’s president Ratul Chandra Bora and chief secretary Nilomoni Bora as saying.
Both the president and the chief secretary said that the Akashvani Dibrugarh Centre in 1977 conducted an interview of the people’s artiste and recorded a musical rendition through which the memories of the artiste have been made eternal.
In 1977, Sadulla was serving as the Programme Director at the Dibrugarh Centre of Akashvani. In the later years, he recorded songs and composed essays on Oja’s life, thereby immortalising his works.
The statement further mentioned that in the 1970s, when Oja was hospitalised at AMCH before his death, Sadulla conducted an interview beside his bed, using equipment from the Akashvani centre.
Natives from Oja’s hometown have not forgotten the efforts made by Sadulla to immortalise the former’s life works, the statement further read.