Barak Valley bids tearful adieu to Anurupa Biswas
From our Correspondent
SILCHAR, Dec 12: The well known litterateur, educationist, and poet, Anurupa Biswas, passed away last night at around 10.32 pm here at her residence in Ambicapatty. She was 80 and is survived by her three sons Anup Biswas, chartered accountant, Asamanja Biswas, lawyer, and Dr Aniruddha Biswas, surgeon and a daughter Dulanchapa Dey who is married off. She was the wife of renowned lawyer Anil Kumar Biswas (Karthik).
Anurupa Biswas suddenly fell ill yesterday morning. After she complained of breathing problems, her son Dr Aniruddha Biswas made an arrangement to put her on life support. She had been ill for the last few months and had been under the supervision of doctors.
Before her body was taken for cremation, people from all walks of life paid their last respect to the litterateur at Gandhi Bagh here today.
Born in June 17, 1932, Anurupa was the sixth children of her parents Harmohan Roy Choudhury and Pramila Roy Choudhury. She started her school life at Joy Kumar Pathsala and then went to Dina Nath Naba Kishore (DNNK) Girls’ School. After passing the entrance examination from Kishori Mohan Girls’ School of Sylhet, now Bangladesh, in 1946, Biswas joined the postal department. She did her graduation from Sylhet and then post graduation from Gauhati University. Biswas later joined Women’s College, Silchar, as a lecturer in the department of Bengali in 1968 and was retired from the service in 1992.
For her remarkable contribution in the field of literature, the government of Tripura honoured Biswas with ‘Bhasa Sanman’ in last February, while the Assam government in 20011-2012 sanctioned literary pension to her. She was the only person who received the pension without applying for it.
Anurupa Biswas penned several articles which were published in different dailies and weeklies of the state. She had also written several short stories and poems. Biswas’s Bidroher Desh during India’s Independence movement and Aiushman Ho during language movement in Barak Valley earned appreciation. Biswas was also a social activist. She had played a prominent role in the peasantry movements of Barak Valley in general.
Biswajit Das, secretary of Sammilita Sanskritik Mancha, an umbrella of several cultural organizations of Barak Valley, said that her demise had created a void which could never be filled in. “She played a prominent role in the farmers’ movement at Jaroiltola of Cachar district. She also had a huge contribution in the language movement of 1961. She was a leader, writer, poet, social activist and a philanthropist,” Das added. He expressed his deepest sorrow over her demise.
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