[Assam] watch - Bhupen Hazarika singing along with the very best of India's singers

[Ram Dhar]

Hazarika with an elite group 
 
video 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JHe50-iNTk  
  
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[Assam] FW: In Honor of the Assamese Legend Dr Bhupen Hazarika

[Rajen Barua]

FRIENDS OF ASSAM AND SEVEN SISTERS 
mourns the death of the Assamese legend Dr. Bhupen Hazarika. Our sorrow cannot 
be expressed by any amount of words. It will take generations of Assamese to 
realize that such a legend with such global mass appeal really was one of us 
and lived among us.



I just spoke to Tej Hazarika, his son in New York who spent some time with his 
father in Mumbai hospital just two months ago, and who is now preparing to go 
to Guwahati as soon as he can buy the airline ticket.  

In honor of this great legend, we request everybody in this global community of 
his fans to observe a minute of silence at their own place and time wherever 
they are. 



Regards
Rajen Barua

FASS IntlHouston



Friends





The dreadful news finaly came. The Assamese legend, the Pride of Assam Dr 
Bhupen Hazarika is no more. He was 86. The end came at 4:30pm on Saturday at 
the Mumbai-based Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital where he was undergoing 
treatment




http://www.assamtimes.org/hot-news/5608.html



http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/news/music-legend-bhupen-hazarika-dies/215381





It will take the Assamese years to properly evaluate his contribution to the 
society.



Bhupen Hazarika was born in 1926, at Sadiya in Assam. He did his Intermediate 
in Guwahati in 1942, and went on to Banaras Hindu University to complete his B. 
A and completed his M A in Political Science in 1946. Soon after, he did PhD 
from Columbia varsity in New Yorkin Mass Communication. He also received the 
Lisle Fellowship from Chicago University, USA to study the use of educational 
project development through cinema.




Dr Hazarika was also ranked amongst the leading film makers of the nation. It 
was he who dared to propagate the cinema movement with unputdownable 
contribution which is why, he was awarded dada Saheb Phalke award. He was also 
a legislative Assembly as an Independent member from 1967 to 1972. In this 
period, he did everything possible to set up the first government film studio 
named after Jyoti Prasad Agarwalla.




He earned reputation of a notable film maker with Era Batar Sur, Shakuntala, 
Pratidhwani, Lotighoti, Chick Mick Bijuli, Mon Projapati and Siraj. In 1992, he 
presided the Assam Sahitya Sabha in its Sivasagar session. Last year, he was 
given the Assam Ratna award.






  
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Re: [Assam] Re[assam] The Bhopal Tragedy

[mc mahant]

Dear BubanDa, 

  We thought so.
Nobody asked.
Nobody  had the   depth   and analysis.
Nobody dared .
Such is "Journalism".
But they  call themselves the "4th Pillar of Democracy"
  As a student of Engineering I always marveled at the stability of :
3  PhasesElectricAC 3 Rocket motors boosting  giant Soyuz   craft-  which 
finally enabled Apollo
3 stand legs supporting delicate Theodolites and Video Studio gear4th Pillar 
was redundant if not   a nuisance.


Thanks for being sensitive.

Do maintain your sagacity till the end.

mm


> To: mikemah...@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re[assam] The Bhopal Tragedy
> From: bbar...@aol.com
> CC: assam@assamnet.org
> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 10:36:58 -0400
> 
> Dear Mike
> 
> You are making valid queries but  I do not have any information. I 
> suppose the official enquiries were more concerned  with the  plight of 
> the victims, their rehabilitation ,  payment of compensation etc. than 
> what type of chemicals the firm manufactured etc. As I stated earlier I 
> was not able to link up the second article. I
> Reproduce it below as it is  not a very long one.
> -bhuban
> THE TOXIC LEGACY REMAINS, 27 YEARS ON
> EYEWINESSES  by Nina Lakhani
> 
> Almost 27 years after the world’s worst industrial disaster struck 
> Bhopal, the abandoned gas factory and its toxic waste are part of daily 
> lifefor tens of thousands of poor families
> 
> Around the streets behind the factory, adults were either filling up 
> pots and urns with clean water – through taps installed three months 
> earlier – or else bathing their children. Campaigners won a hard-fought 
> battle in 2004. when the Supreme Court ordered the state government to 
> provide Bhopalis with clean water. And slowly water pipes are being 
> fitted into the homes of all affected communities. But water is scarce, 
> so the taps stop flowing after 3o minutes and families have to make 
> stores last for 48 hours. This means most still rely on dirty ground 
> water from hand pumps when the urns dry. “we know the ground water is 
> dirty, it smells funny, but what can we do?” said Habib Khan, 46.
> 
> Soon after the Union Carbide factory opened in the 1970s, waste was 
> sumped in three solar evaporation ponds. Documents show the ponds were 
> “almost emptied” through leaky lining by 1982. These have seeped into 
> water over the past three decades; monsoon rains spread the toxins 
> further.
> 
> Campaigners believe this is the cause of high rates of congenital 
> deformities, cancers and respiratory and endocrine problems among 
> communities too poor to move.
> 
> Dow, which bought Union Carbide in 2001, rejects claims that it 
> inherited the company’s liabilities, yet in the US it settled 
> asbestos-related claims dating back to the early 1970s. [The picture 
> not reproduced].
> 
> 
> 
  
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[Assam] CNN-IBN video report - Remembering Bhupen Hazarika

[Ram Dhar]

 
http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/199582/remembering-legendary-singer-composer-bhupen-hazarika.html

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[Assam] video - Bhupen Hazarika's last interview

[Ram Dhar]

 
NDTV -
 
http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/news/bhupen-hazarika-s-last-interview/215383?hp
  
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[Assam] Re[assam] The Bhopal Tragedy

[bbaruah]

Dear Mike

You are making valid queries but  I do not have any information. I 
suppose the official enquiries were more concerned  with the  plight of 
the victims, their rehabilitation ,  payment of compensation etc. than 
what type of chemicals the firm manufactured etc. As I stated earlier I 
was not able to link up the second article. I

Reproduce it below as it is  not a very long one.
-bhuban
THE TOXIC LEGACY REMAINS, 27 YEARS ON
EYEWINESSES  by Nina Lakhani

Almost 27 years after the world’s worst industrial disaster struck 
Bhopal, the abandoned gas factory and its toxic waste are part of daily 
lifefor tens of thousands of poor families


Around the streets behind the factory, adults were either filling up 
pots and urns with clean water – through taps installed three months 
earlier – or else bathing their children. Campaigners won a hard-fought 
battle in 2004. when the Supreme Court ordered the state government to 
provide Bhopalis with clean water. And slowly water pipes are being 
fitted into the homes of all affected communities. But water is scarce, 
so the taps stop flowing after 3o minutes and families have to make 
stores last for 48 hours. This means most still rely on dirty ground 
water from hand pumps when the urns dry. “we know the ground water is 
dirty, it smells funny, but what can we do?” said Habib Khan, 46.


Soon after the Union Carbide factory opened in the 1970s, waste was 
sumped in three solar evaporation ponds. Documents show the ponds were 
“almost emptied” through leaky lining by 1982. These have seeped into 
water over the past three decades; monsoon rains spread the toxins 
further.


Campaigners believe this is the cause of high rates of congenital 
deformities, cancers and respiratory and endocrine problems among 
communities too poor to move.


Dow, which bought Union Carbide in 2001, rejects claims that it 
inherited the company’s liabilities, yet in the US it settled 
asbestos-related claims dating back to the early 1970s. [The picture 
not reproduced].





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[Assam] Dr Bhupen Hazarika no more

[Babul Gogoi]

http://www.assamtimes.org/hot-news/5608.htmlDr Bhupen Hazarika no more
05 November, 2011AT News Bureau 
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[image: image]File Photo: Dr Bhupen Hazarika

**

Pride of Assam Dr Bhupen Hazarika is no more. He was 85. The end came at
4:30pm on Saturday at the Mumbai-based Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital
where he was undergoing treatment.

Hazarika was born in 1926, at Sadiya in Assam. He did his Intermediate in
Guwahati in 1942, and went on to Banaras Hindu University to complete his
B. A and completed his M A in Political Science in 1946. Soon after, he did
PhD from Columbia varsity in New Yorkin Mass Communication. He also
received the Lisle Fellowship from Chicago University, USA to study the use
of educational project development through cinema.

Dr Hazarika was also ranked amongst the leading film makers of the nation.
It was he who dared to propagate the cinema movement with unputdownable
contribution which is why, he was awarded dada Saheb Phalke award. He was
also a legislative Assembly as an Independent member from 1967 to 1972. In
this period, he did everything possible to set up the first government film
studio named after Jyoti Prasad Agarwalla.

He earned reputation of a notable film maker with Era Batar Sur,
Shakuntala, Pratidhwani, Lotighoti, Chick Mick Bijuli, Mon Projapati and
Siraj. In 1992, he presided the Assam Sahitya Sabha in its Sivasagar
session. Last year, he was given the Assam Ratna award.

http://www.assamtimes.org/hot-news/5608.html
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[Assam] Bhupenda is no more

[Nava Thakuria]

Bhupenda is no more

Our beloved Bhupenda has left this material world today (at 4.30 pm of Nov 5, 
2011).
A legend of our time, Bhupenda, 85 was undergoing treatment in Mumbai for some 
time. The Assamese society has lost its greatest cultural icon, who was the 
most exposed, discussed and reported personality in the last six decades. 


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