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DIGBOI: Dipen Kumar Borah, a well known literary figure of Digboi in Tinsukia district, has been nominated as the recipient of the Mamoni Raisom Goswami Smriti Sahitya Surabhi Award for the year 2025. This was informed by Borah on Wednesday morning stating that he was communicated by a concerned authorised body. “The formal invitation to this effect would be sent by the body soon having fixed the venue of the event,” added Borah.
Mamoni Raisom Goswami Smriti Sahitya Surabhi Award is a prestigious literary award in Assam, instituted in memory of the renowned writer and social activist Dr Mamoni Raisom Goswami. This prestigious award is normally given by the Axam Xahitya Xabha, the apex literary body of the state of Assam.
Dipen Kumar Borah, a well known author, scholar, playwright, editor, and a social activist of Digboi, is known for his numerous meaningful contributions to Assamese literature and socio cultural fields. Besides actively associating himself with the Tinsukia District Xahitya Xabha and Digboi Sahitya Sewa Samity earlier in various capacities including the president, vice-president and secretary over a period of time, Borah has become a common name in and around Digboi for his oratory skills too.
Bora, presently serving as an employee at the Indian Oil Digboi AOD Refinery, also served as Secretary of Kobi Sakra (Session of the poets) and was the founding president of Goriyokhi Sanga known popularly for holding first ever national level book fairs twice in Digboi.
The prominent literary works (prose) of Borah include ‘Pal Tora Naw,’ ‘Bhal Puwa Hobdor Junak ,’ ‘Janmakundali ,’ Noiporiya Hopun among those published while he edited several literary pieces like ‘Sankar Jigyas,’ ‘Prothakya aru Protesuti,’ and so on.
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