First Roar From Northeast, Radha Govinda Baruah
Radha Govinda Baruah (17th October 1900-
15th July 1977) was the first in Northeast
India, to roar the voice of people in print with introduce of first
weekly newspaper from Dibrugarh, Assam on 4th August, 1939.
The 'Lion Man' Radha Govinda when published
his first weekly newspaper along with ace editor Lakshminath Phookan (worked in
leading Kolkata daily) then was constituted of seven states ; today recognized
as sovereign bodies.
In 1930’s literary rate in Assam was on to
flickering extent with few population of English literate due to which Radha
Govinda had to battle hard to make ‘Assam Tribune’ market stronger.
‘Assam Tribune’ was well appreciated and
reckoned by the state’s influential organizations due to which it got
sponsorship that helped Radha Govinda to elevate his weekly paper to daily
version in 30th September, 1946.
Enthusiasm of Radha Govinda was unstoppable
and batted to go further length to introduce vernacular newspaper ‘Dainik
Assam’ in 4th August, 1965 along with noted journalist Kirtinath
Hazarika. ‘Dainik Assam’ persists to survive when other newspapers in this
stream of local language made its exit.
RG Baruah was instrumental in taking
Assamese culture and sports to great height apart from educational development
to enhance literacy due to which he is reckoned famously as the ‘architect of
modern Assam’. Acute sports lover Radha Govinda remained as the president of
Assam Cricket association for about a decade. Many sports infrastructures and
even roads are named after him.
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