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.
Its final. The One-Dayer International between India and England will be holding in Guwahati as per schedule.The cricket board (BCCI) has ruled out shifting the Guwahati one-dayer between India and England during the upcoming seven-match series, beginning on November 14.The recent bomb blasts in three cities of Assam had made the schedule a doubtful one over the sixth match, scheduled for Guwahati on November 29.Earlier a private TV channel had reported that the match may be shifted to Mohali. But a BCCI official said there were no plans to make any change in the tour itinerary. He said the tour will go on as per schedule.
The main Opposition Asom Gana Parishad has demand immediate dismissal of the Tarun Gogoi government alleging that it has failed to ensure safety and security of the people.A seven member delegation of the party led by the party president Chandra Mohan Patowary on Monday called on President Pratibha Patil at the Rashtrapati Bhawan and submitted a memorandum before her alleging utter lawlessness in the state which is evident from the recent serial blasts. The delegation comprised working president Phani Bhushan Chaudhory, general secretary Padma Hazarika, MPs Sarbananda Sonowal, Birendra Prasad Baishya, Dr Arun Sarma and Kumar Dipak Das.
The Rajasthan police have denied link between the serial blast in Guwahati and Jaipur. After a careful on the spot study in Guwahati, they are confirm that no link could be established between the perpetrators of the two incidents.A high level team of experts led by Deputy Superintendent of Police was dispatched to Assam was rushed to Assam to ascertain possible similarities between the Jaipur serial bomb blasts and Assam serial explosions. They have returned with the assessment that as per the investigation there is no similarity between the incidents in Assam, which took place last month, and those in Jaipur in May, and the explosives in the blasts in the northeastern state were of a...
A few hours the union home ministry pinned the blame on NDFB and ULFA’s for the recent serial blast engineered by the external forces, NDFB has refuted the charges firmly.Talking to a private satellite TV channel on Monday NDFB general secretary Govinda Basumatary has cleared that those arrested in this connection belong not to his outfit. He has alleged that his outfit is being implicated unnecessarily.Notably, ten days after the serial blast, the Union home ministry disclosed that ULFA and NDFB were behind the tragic incident micro managed by the external forces.ULFA was quick to deny its involvement hours after the serial blast. But NDFB has come to follow the suit 24 hours after...
A major train accident was averted in Morigaon district on Monday. He was a villager who stopped an express passenger train on finding that the sleeper of a railway track missing at a place near Thekeraguri railway station.According to information, the villager waved his clothes tied to a bamboo pole to signal the approaching Guwahati-Dimapur Jansatabdi Express train to stop. He came to notice the sleepers below five-meter stretch of the railway tracks missing while crossing the tracks.The speeding train managed to stop at about 500 metres from the location, sources said. Senior railway officials who rushed there and passengers rewarded the villager.
Artists enacting a street play "ETA GANA BISFORANOPR ARAMBHANI...." organised by the All Assam Sanaskritik Parishad protesting against the recent serial blasts in Assam and helping death and injured in the blast in Guwahati on 06-11-08. Photo: UB Photos.
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Rattled by the recent serial blast, New Delhi’s top security managers has hunkered down on Wednesday and finetune a slew of strategies to strengthen the security scenario with a better intelligence network.Reliable sources here say the Centre would soon to set up an intelligence coordination group to institutionalise all inputs and put them into action at the ground level. The meeting, chaired by National Security Advisor M K Narayanan and attended by Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrashekar besides others decided to strengthen these security measures soon. On the other hand, the Centre has asked the Assam government in clear terms to strengthen security across the state as external forces...
After the serial blast that rocked Assam with a toll of 88, now it’s a spate of protest that spills to the national capital. The main Opposition Asom Gana Parishad on Wednesday staged a dharna in front of the Red Fort demanding immediate dissolution of the Tarun Gogoi government alleging a cocktail of the terrorist forces with the power-that-be-in Dispur. Talking to Assam Times, AGP MP Dr Arun Kumar Sarma said the state has been witnessing an increasing trend of ISI activists to make the situation more grim. He said if these refuse to die down, the situation would span out of control. Dr Sarma further said a judicial probe is needed to unearth the truth behind the entire tragic...
On the aftermath of the serial blasts in Assam that killed over 80 and wounded nearly 400 people, the Journalists' Forum, Assam has organized a Citizen's Meet on Wednesday at Guwahati Press Club. The meeting will begin at 2 pm. The meeting is supposed to discuss about the aftermath of the terror attacks in India and probable plan of actions to raise voices against the heinous crime. The Journalists' Forum, Assam believes that India in general and Assam in particular have stepped in to a serious phase, where we have already been exposed to the growing threats of international terrorism in a massive way.
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