HT Correspondent
SIVASAGAR, April 30: The Satradhikar of the Sri Sri Auniati Satra, noted writer, spiritual and public speaker, Padmashree Dr Pitambar Deva Goswami, was on Thursday conferred with the fifth Sahityarathi Laksminath Bezbaruah Award 2025 by the Sivasagar District Students Union (SDSU) at a modest function at KPMG Hall in the presence of a host of distinguished persons, including Arundhati Bezbaruah from the family of Laksminath Bezbaruah, Prema Gogoi, Dwizen Gogoi, Makhan Bora, Sankarlal Agarwala, Dr Saumerjyoti Mahanta, Dr Arun Mahanta, Manoj Kr Borthakur, Bitupon Sarma, Dipankar Saikia, Manas Baruah, Dipali Bhattacharya Barua, Diganta Mangal Neog, Rajinder Joshi and leaders of the AASU units. The meeting held on the occasion was presided over by Manos Pratima Hazarika, president, SDSU.
Attending the meeting, the general secretary of AASU, Samiran Phukan, said that Laksminath Bezbaruah was a stellar example of what a multifaceted personality like Bezbaruah can do for a nation and that the award is a humble effort to honour a distinguished person contributing to the present Assamese community as well as Laksminath Bezbaruah himself.
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Receiving the award, Dr Pitambar Deva Goswami said that AASU, since its inception in the state has remained the eternal sentry of the Assamese people, their language and culture, ever ready to protect them at moments of crisis. Dr Goswami said that Laksminath Bezbaruah was a ‘sabyasachi’, like Arjun of the Mahabharata. He said Bezbaruah, true to the title Sahityarathi, could write with equal ease across all genres of the Assamese language. Bezbaruah, he said, played a pivotal role when the modern Assamese language took shape in Kolkata and even today remains highly relevant.
