Minoti Khaund: The evergreen violinist of 70's musical world of Assam, she is undoubtedly one of the most popular violinist today and can equally be placed among the best. With her disarming smile and charming manner, the bespectacled Minoti Khaund exudes a comfortable air: music, she says takes her closet to divinity and accords her peace and tranquility. It is an invigorating experience which exalts her spirits.
Born in a well to do Phukan paribar of Jorhat. Her father Manik Chandra Phukan and mother Nalini Debi. She was raised in a culturally rich atmosphere. Her maternal grandfather: Bisheswar Sharma, well-known Tea planter and a culturally gharana of Jorhat. Being a connoisseur of the fine arts himself encouraged Minoti and bought her a violin. So, she started to play at a tender age of 10.
Minoti had her early training in violin from Shri Indreswar Sarma of Jorhat, in the music school of late Darpanath Sarma. She performed in several concerts and festivals and the turning point in her life came when she was performing at the All Assam Music Conference in 1972 and violin maestro Pt. V.G.Jog heard her on stage and offered to impart his art to Minoti. Her husband Kabindra Ram Khaund and the daughter in law of Deputy Commissioner Rabindra Ram Khaund a traditional family of Assam supported her and started her apprenticeship under Pt .Jog. Thereafter started the traditional Gururshisya Parampara between Minoti and Padmavibhusahan Pt Jog.
The Rising Talent Conference at Kalamandir Calcutta in 1978 introduced Minoti as a talented artiste. There has been no looking back since then. The Amir Khan Music Conference at Rabindra Sadan Calcutta, Benaras, Burdwan, Cuttack, Bhubaneshwar, Tatanagar, Rabindra Natya Mandir mumbai, India International Center Delhi, Mehta Memorial Hall Allahabad, IIT Festival, Shankardev Kalakshetra Guwahati, National Gallery of Modern Art Mumbai, India Habitat Centre Delhi, Women's International Forum Goa, Madhusudhan Manch Kolkatta etc were the platforms that Minoti performed in and enthralled the audience and press alike. She became the foremost violinist of Assam. She was conferred the title of Sangeet Jyoti.
Minoti started her parallel studies in the field of music and attained Sangeet Nipune from Prayag Sangeet Samitti, Allahabad, in 1986, bagging a gold medal for her Sangeet Visharad. During this period she also got associated with vocalist Pt. A.T, Kanan of the Sangeet Research Academy, Kolkatta and imbibed the "gayaki ang" in her style. She also underwent music studies in the field of raga improvisations and rhythmic patterns of "tala" from sarod maestro and musicologist Pt. Buddhadev Dasgupta.
Sunita Bhuyan is a violinist of the Hindustani style and has carved a niche for herself as an upcoming musician of India. Recepient of the Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini award for Music. She was initiated into musicat a tender age by her mother Minoti Khaund. The mother daughter duo of Minoti and Sunita have performed duets all over the country and abroad, regaling the audience and the press alike with their "jugalbandi". What makes her great is: selection of her tune, her style of presentation and she stried to give a semi-classical touch which has a blend of folk western classical.
Sunita has attained a master's degree in Hindustani Music from Prayag Sangeet Samitte, with a distinction and has also studied advanced music under the apprenticeship of violin maestro Padmabibhushan Late Pt V.G. Jog.
Minoti Khaund, the award winning violin master whose musical career spanning 50 years. She has been awarded the prestigious Silpi Bata this year by Govt. of Assam.
A violin recital by Minoti Khaund and her daughter Sunita Bhuyan are on an exclusive UK tour at the prestigious Nehru Centre (the Cultural wing of Indian High Commission) on 26th June and other British cities: Manchester: Kalapremi mandal, Birmingham and Nottingham organized by Rini Kakati, NRI Co-ordinator for UK.
Also the Glasgow concert is organized by Mrs. Anima Sharma, an active member of Lancashire Hindu Association.
Tension prevails in Golaghat district of Assam a day after Nagaland police asked the local residents of Merapani to leave the area. High level police and civil officials are camping in the area to monitor the situation and police and para military forces are put on alert. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi dispatched home secretary Jishnu Baruah who is overseeing security arrangement. Tension gripped the entire area after a bunch of Nagaland police asked the local residents of Kolaijan near Merapani to leave the area claiming that they possessed the area from the Assam government.
Meanwhile, All Assam Students' Union would launch a massive agitation in Golaghat in protest against the...
A lower court in Guwahati on Friday sent Ranjit Das to jail a day after he severed his wife's head and surrendered before a police station in Guwahati. Ranjeet who resides at Bikrampur in Japorigog chopped off his wife’s head walked to police station with the severed head and a blood-stained machete was caught by Central Reserve Police Force jawans in Ganeshguri Point and drove him to Dispur police station.
The police said that Ranjeet had confessed to have killed his wife during interrogation. He would be produced before the magistrate again on Monday. Amiya was a health department worker under the National Rural Health Mission posted at Orang in Udalguri district.
A train driver was injured when unidentified miscreants attacked a goods train in Dima Hasao district on Wednesday. According to reports, the incident took place at around 1-30 in the afternoon near Haflong when unidentified miscreants fired from the nearby hill-top at the goods train which was on its way to Silchar from Lumding. The driver suffered bullet injury in his legs and was admitted to the Haflong civil hospital. Details are awaited. Railway and police officials rushed to the area, they said adding that the identity of the insurgents was yet to be ascertained.
The entire Assam is in the grip of Durga Puja festivities. Maha Navami puja is being observed a day before the immersion of the idols. People of all walks of life young and old alike are lined up in the puja mandaps to offer Maha Navami puja from early in the morning. Prominent political leaders are also seen offering puja seeking divine help. Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday visited a puja pandal in Ganeshguri a day after he wrapped up a foreign tour.
Talking to reporters, Gogoi hoped that the puja will help the state end the bloody chapter and that he would try to rein the in soaring price line to give the people some sort of respite. Replying to a question on whether he...
Two policemen have been injured and arms were looted when suspected Maoists sprang upon the 19th Assam Police Battalion. According tom information, a group of suspected Maoist cadres launched a sudden attack on the policemen namely Nitual Gogoi and Ajit Buragohain leaving seriously injured. Immediately after the incident the duo have been shifted to the Assam Medical College Hospital. Meanwhile, security forces are fanning in the entire area with a joint operation to nab the culprit. The incident is suspected to be a Maoist attack but the authorities are yet to confirm it. Details are awaited.
It was a colourful blend of young achievers from various parts of the Northeast as they gathered at the Bamboo Hall at Kisama on Monday for the first time in history under the banner “Young Leaders Connect”. In a day-long conference with about fifteen speakers, four moderators and over 200 delegates, leaders from the eight NE states came together under the theme ‘Connect, Exchange, Strengthen’ to deliberate discussions on a range of topics including “Governance as Leadership: Connecting policies with aspirations”, “Redefining Development through Social Entrepreneurship”, “The Role of North East in the growing economy of India”...
Electronic Media Forum Assam has expressed profound grief at the sudden and untimely demise of young television journalist Manideep Boro. The active journalist from Kokrajhar, who had vast experience of working for both print and electronic media in Assam, was suffering from hypertension and other ailments. Boro, 40, who worked The Telegraph, NE Television and later shifted to News Live channel, died at 5 pm of October 3 in GNRC Hospital. May his soul rest in peace, EMFA release added.
Assam is celebrating Durga puja across the state with much pomp and gaiety. Devotees are thronging in thousands to offer puja to the goddess Durga on Tuesday to end the evil dominance. Tuesday is Maha Navami where from early in the morning the devotees are visiting the pujas mandaps in different places of the state.
There seems to be an undeclared race of puja mandaps in the state where Guwahati city seems to have stole the limelight. The puja ,mandap at Laxmimandir in Beltola is teeming with visitors from morning till midnight to see the idol of goddess. Another striking feature this year there is a show to spread message of wild life.
Latasheel mandap is also pulling no less...
On the auspicious day of ‘International Day of Non- Violence’, various North East bands came together to appeal for Harmony in the North East Region at KASSA Indoor Stadium, Diphu, Assam on 2nd October 2011. The 3rd Indigenous Music Festival was organized by Abiogenesis Society, Dimapur in collaboration with North East Zone Cultural Centre, Ministry Of Culture, Government of India. The previous 1st and 2nd Indigenous Music Festival was held at Dimapur in 2007 and 2009 respectively. The bands that performed in this years festival are Ragga Muffin (Diphu), Rokrar (Diphu), Maestro ( Halflong), Jambili (Diphu) and Incipit (Nagaland) with Premson Bey taking the mic as host for the...
The death toll in the tragic mishap in the outskirt of the city has gone up to 8 with five more succumbed to injuries on Sunday night. Three persons died on the spot immediately after the Tata Sumo vehicle carrying them to Mancachar collided its head on a speeding truck at Kenduguri in Boko in the evening. All the three deceased who died on the spot were Tata Sky employees. All nine injured persons were rushed to the Guwahati Medical College Hospital where five of them died on Sunday night.
Meanwhile, a pall of gloom descended to the entire area following the incident that marred the Durga puja festivities in the area. The bodies were kept for post mortem. Investigation is on. The...
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