Ranjan Bezbaruah

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Ranjan Kumar Bezbaruah is an Indian singer, lyricist, translator and academician engaged in promoting Modern Sanskrit Lyrical Literature.^[1][2] He is a vocal artiste of ‘Sanskrit songs’ contributing to All India Radio, Delhi Doordarshan & other regional & national platforms.^[1] Apart from receiving the 'Xudhakantha Dr. Bhupen Hazarika Memorial Integration Award' on November 5, 2014, he was honoured with 'Rashtriya Sanskrit Geetikavi' in 2020 by an international organisation.^[3]

Early life[]

Ranjan Bezbaruah was born on 1 August, 1971 in Chakalaghat, Hatichong, Nagaon district of Assam.^[1] His father Rohit Chandra Bezbaruah was an educationist, writer and his mother Sri Subhadra Bezbaruah is a teacher, artist.^[1] Bezbaruah married to Bornali Parashar of Tezpur-Jamugurihat in 2002.^[1] They has two children, a son Jishnu and a daughter Mayukhi.^[1]

Cultural and academic activity[]

Sanskrit version of a number of patriotic Indian songs of the maestros like Rabindranath Tagore & Md. Iqbal,^[4] Kazi Nazrul, Kavi Pradeep and so on.^[5] Moreover, has been rendering his vocal to a few rare Hindi film songs with dignified lyrics & music encompassing K. L. Saigal to A. R. Rahman along with a few popular Ghazals and Bhajans.^[6][7]

He has been translating popular and patriotic songs from Assamese, Bengali and Hindi into Sanskrit and singing them since 1999.^[7]

Presented the Sanskrit rendition of the patriotic song- Md. Iqbal’s 'Sare Jahan se Accha'^[4] which was produced and published by the national media, DDNews, Delhi for the first time, on the grand occasion of india’s 70th independence day, on 14th august, 2016.^[1] It was translated and sung by Ranjan Bezbaruah along with other vocalists.^[1]

He started 'Prachyaa', the first Sanskrit band from North East India and second in India in 2017.^[8]

Awards[]

Felicitations[]

• ‘Hitoishi Sadasya’ of Asom Sahitya Sabha; Life Member of Asom Kabi Sanmilon.

Literary Works[]

• Compiled a book of Sanskrit songs titled ‘Geeta-Sanskritam’ with the original and translated Sanskrit lyrics (pub.2017).^[1]
• Edited the Assamese Translation of Bharata’s original Sanskrit text of 'Natyashastra', vol. 1& 2 (pub. 2002) by Axom Natya Sanmilan.
• Published a compilation of articles named 'Ananda sudhakara' on Indian Culture and Literature.^[1]
• Has been editing 'Abhijnanam' the Annual Souvenir of Sanskrit Bhasha Vikasha Manch, Nagaonsince 2007.

References[]

• "Ramdhun in Sanskrit: Tribute on Gandhi Jayanti". Thehillstimes.in. 2020-10-02. Retrieved 2021-10-19.

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