SWAYAM family pays homage to Respected Dr Maheswar Neog on the day his birth that reached century who was the first methodical & academic bridge between S. Xankaradeva legacy & outer world ( a genuine approach from all perspective to move towards broad frame what is known nowadays as so called BiSWADARBAR)
Professor Maheswar Neog (7 September 1915 – 13 September 1995) was an Indian academic who specialised in the cultural history of the North East India especially Assam, besides being a Assamese-language scholar and poet.An editorial in the Assam Times called him "a versatile scholar and visionary thinker with encyclopedic range."He remained Jawaharlal Nehru Professor at Gauhati University and later Saint Sankaradeva Professor at Punjabi University. He was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour in 1974,also in the same year he remained the President of Asam Sahitya Sabha (Assam Literary Society). In 1994, he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship the highest honour conferred by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama Regards Satyen Mahanta . Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
