Veteran Assamese journalist Tilak Hazarika passes away
96-year old Hazarika was treated at GNRC hospital in Guwahati since Sept 19 and breathed his last at around 12-50 am last night.
Family sources said the veteran journalist was admitted at hospital following brain haemorrhage.
Tilak Hazarika was serving till his death as Chief Editor of Sadin, an Assamese weekly.
He was earlier served as Associate Editor in Natun Asomiya, Editor in Asom Bani.
Hazarika won the Sahitya Akademi Translation Award in 1996 for his short story “Phanishwar Nath Renur Shrestha Kahini”.
Several journalist, artists, organizations had paid their last tribute to the veteran journalist.
Meanwhile Assam Governor Banwarilal Puruhit, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal expressed condolences over the death of veteran journalist.
In a condolence message the Assam Governor said that, Tilak Hazarika was a legend in Assamese journalism and his death would create a void in the journalistic world which would be hard to fill.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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