| Dr. Bhupen Hazarika |
Time…….!
Time is sweet! Time is sour! Time
is beautiful; also, time is cruel! Time is past, present, & future!
Time is everything! One year has
passed by just like a shooting star since 5th November, 2011! This
long time is enough “time” to remember & forget lot of things! Yes friend,
we are talking about the first death anniversary (not exactly after one year,
but the anniversary is observed according to the “Tithi” or a Holy day of Hindu
calendar) of Dr. Bhupen Hazarika, the legendary musical personality of
Assam.
We know that he was “not only” a
singer with a mesmerizing voice; not simply a lyricist who says about Assam
& Brahmaputra; not simply a music director-composer, who made Lata
Mangeshkar-Kishore Kumar-Mohammad Rofi & other great Bollywood singers
to sing Assamese songs etc. etc. etc. Dr. Bhupen Hazarika picked the essence,
the flavor, the identity of not only Assam, but also the entire North-East as a
whole and rendered them in the form of beautiful songs to the world community. He
was a complete “institution” & was popular worldwide for this reason!
Dr. Bhupen Hazarika was
not only a man of music or a man of enchanting voice, but he conveyed the
message of peace, love, humanity, and fraternity to the world community. That’s
why Bangladesh honoured him with their “Friends of Bangladesh” appellation.
Dr. Bhupen Hazarika was a
true Assamese. There is no such an Assamese song or poem of him where his love
for Assam & Assamese along with the other six sisters on North-East is not
found! He brought our beautiful cultures, tunes to the world platform. Though
for professional reasons he was in Kolkata or Mumbai, his heart was always for
Assam and North-East, but, how much we gave respect to this balladeer patriot! He
sang whole life for the people of his motherland, but, how sad, how disgusting it
is that even after almost one year of his death, our popular Govt.(they call themselves)
could not able to make a beautiful cemetery of him as they promised! Few days
back, CM Tarun Gogoi declared an Award in the name of him(Dr. Bhupen
Hazarika) and also declared that his cemetery will be build with international
standard. But, the question is, should we belief him? One year before he
made the same promise, and what we can see today? Whether even a single wall has been erected to separate the cemetery from the adjacent highway which are under construction? No! The other things are for your consideration! This is the example our love or respect to a legend!
We are forgetful, selfish people! That’s because at the very outset we’ve started with the word time! We usually forget “time”, so “time” forgets us! Time never spares anybody!
We are forgetful, selfish people! That’s because at the very outset we’ve started with the word time! We usually forget “time”, so “time” forgets us! Time never spares anybody!
Anyway, in the auspicious
occasion of first death anniversary (yesterday, 25th October) of our
beloved singer (in a single word) Dr. Bhupen Hazarika, we remember him with our
utmost love & respect from our innermost soul. For the first time after his demise, Priyamvada Hazarika, the beloved wife of Dr. Bhupen Hazarika along with her son Tez Hazarika, arrived in Guwahati to join in the rituals with their other family members.
