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.
More than 30 persons, including two NSCN-IM cadres, died and 40 others critically injured on Friday midnight in Karbi Anglong district while they were trying to siphon off fuel from a goods train which spilled over forming gas at Chaiding bordering Nagaland.According to information, the petrol leaked from the tanks and the highly combustible material formed gas suffocating them on Friday night. A gang operating from across the Nagaland border stopped the petrol laden goods train coming from Upper Assam at Rangapahar Siting, near Diphu, and broke open the tanks carrying the highly pressurized fuel.Fifteen bodies have been recovered on the spot while Nagaland police have claimed that they...
Governor Meghalaya Ranjit Sekhar Mooshahary receiving the “MAN OF THE YEAR 2008” by the Jnanpith awardee Dr. Mamoni Roysom Goswami at a programme organized by the ENKHONG, a Bodo Daily newspaper, on its 5th Anniversary at Srimanta Shankardeb Kalakhetra in Guwahati on 19-09-08. PHOTO: UB PHOTOS.
Three persons have been injured when they tried to prevent some miscreant from kidnapping a businessman in Barpeta in district on Thursday night.According to information, the incident took place at around 9 in the evening. A few miscreants who came on two motorcyles stopped at Majgaon under Howly police station and forcibly lifted one Surajna Mandal,a local businessman from his shop. Some local residents who came out to the streets started clamouring and some others came out to the street. Some of them tried to intercept the miscreants. The miscreants fired upon these people but the Suranjan jumped off the speeding motorcycle while the miscreants could not afford to came back. One Dwipen...
Former Asam Assembly Speaker and AGP(P) leader Ganesh Kutum passed away on Wednesday night. he was 60. The end came at around 9-30 at the International Hospital in the city of Guwahati where he was admitted a few days back. he was suffering from kidney ailment. Before that he was undergoing treatment in New Delhi. Several parties, organisations and individuals have expressed deep shock at the untimely demise of Kutum. He was elected to the Assam legislative assembly twice from Gohpur seat and in 1996 he was elcted as the Assam Assembly Speaker. When the Asom Gana Parishad was divided he join the AGP(P) led by former Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta.Photo: UB Photos
The Assam Rifles on Thursday has claimed that there are no ULFA camps in Myanmar. Addressing a pres conference in Shillong Director General Assam rifles Lt Gen K S Yadava said the army of the neighbouring country is acting against the Indian rebels using its territory adding that there is substantiate amount of cooperation between the two countries on this issue Lt Gen K S Yadava added that the rebels groups were to set up temporary shelters in the country and they have been coordinating with the Myanmarese army. He said the north east Indian rebels have set up camps in the dense forests along the border and that that’s why it’s quit difficult to flush these forces.
Activists of the People for Animals (PFA), an NGO rescued two Dwarf tortoises from a resident in Guwahati and a Soft-shell tortoise from a resident in Karbi Anglong, later the Chairperson of PFA,Assam Unit Sangeeta Goswami released those endangered spices in the Dighalipukhuri in Guwahati on on 18-09-08. Photo:UB Photos.
Several persons have been injured when police resorted to lathicharge on Thursday to disperse a group of people at Bandordewa along Assam-Arunachal border while they were blocking roads. According to information, more than five thousands of people from six minority organisations were blocking the roads alleging atrocity on minority people in the name of detecting and deportation of Bangladeshi immigrants in the area. Several vehicles have also been damaged in the incident.
Altogether 20 people have been injured, three of them critically, when suspected ULFA militants exploded a powerful bomb in Bijni in Chirang district of lower Assam. According to information, the blast took place in front of the office of the Bijni Circle officer at around 10-30 in the morning. The bomb was stripped at a bicycle which left off with a huge sound that jolted the town. Top ranked police officers have rushed to the spot and investigation is going on. The injured people have been rushed to the Bongaigaon Civil Hospital. Two of them are in critical condition. Photo: UB Photos
Recently I had the privilege to hear Mr. Ajit Sahi, the Editor-at-large of Tehelka, speak on the 'Myth Of Terrorist Organisations - SIMI fictions'.His painstakingly collected and carefully analyzed information speaks of scores of innocent Indian Muslims languishing in the countries' prisons on false police accusations. He feels that it is a premeditated government (read Hindu) campaign to implicate and harass Muslim youth and demonise the Muslim community - all in the name of curbing terrorist activities. His findings indicate that in not a single case has it so far been conclusive that SIMI (Students' Islamic Movement of India) activists were involved in terrorist offences. Police have...
As a flood relief measure Early Bird's had organised a veterinary treatment cum vaccination camp at Dhekiabari village, near Burhamayang hill range, a part of Pobitora wildlife sanctuary on 14-09-2008. Two veterinarians, Rupam Bhattacharya and Anjan Chakraborty and for M.Baruah, Mayur Plaban baruah, Pulakesh Talukdar, Tridib Sarma and Sajib Das from Early Bird participated. This is 118th Wild life area camp by the organisation. The team members were delighted to see a river dolphin from a 10 meter distance playing with the swollen river water near Kajolimukh ,a meeting point of Kalong and Brahmaputra.-- Koushik Hazarika
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