Dhirendra Nath Bezboruah is an Indian journalist, writer and the founder editor of ''The Sentinel'', a

Guwahati Guwahati (, ; formerly rendered Gauhati, ) is the biggest city of the Indian state of Assam and also the largest metropolis in northeastern India. Dispur, the capital of Assam, is in the circuit city region located within Guwahati and is the ...

-based English language daily. Born in 1933 in the Jorhat district of the northeast Indian state of

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

, he started his career as a lecturer, after completing his post graduate studies at

Reading University The University of Reading is a public university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as University College, Reading, a University of Oxford extension college. The institution received the power to grant its own degrees in 192 ...

, UK. When ''The Sentinel'' daily was established in 1983, he was selected as the founder editor, a post he held for a number of years. He was associated with the Media Trust, Assam and was the working president of its celebration committee in 1992. The many books he has published from Assamese into English includes ''The Cavern and Other Stories'', a short story anthology written by

Bhabendra Nath Saikia Bhabendra Nath Saikia (20 February 1932 – 13 August 2003) was a novelist, short-story writer, Editor and a Film director from Assam, India. Dr. Saikia received his doctorate in physics from the University of London. He began his career as a ...

. He received the B. D. Goenka Award for Journalism in 1997 and the Nachiketa Samman of '' Panchjanya'' weekly in 2001. He is also recipient of ''Katha Award'' for translation. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the

Padma Shri Padma Shri ( IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is conf ...

, in 2016, for his contributions to literature.

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* * Recipients of the Padma Shri in literature & education 1933 births 20th-century Indian journalists 20th-century Indian translators Journalists from Assam Living people Assamese-language writers English-language writers from India {{India-writer-stub

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