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{{Short description|Indian journalist}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Dhirendra Nath Bezboruah
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| birth_date = 1933
| birth_place = [[Jorhat]], [[Assam]], India
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| occupation = Journalist<br>Writer
| yearsactive = 83
| known for = Founder editor of ''[[The Sentinel (Guwahati)|The Sentinel]]''
| spouse = Kalpana Bezboruah
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| children = Gayatri Bezboruah, Maitreyi Roy, Bhaskar Bezboruah
| parents = Late Surendra Nath Bezboruah, Late Kamala Bezboruah
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br>B. D. Goenka Award<br>Katha Award<br>Nachiketa Samman
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'''Dhirendra Nath Bezboruah''' is an Indian journalist, writer and the founder editor of [[The Sentinel (Guwahati)|''The Sentinel'']], a [[Guwahati]]-based English language daily.<ref name="This Is How Assam Shines Bright on the 67th Republic Day Today">{{cite web | url=http://bordoisila.in/social/This-Is-How-Assam-Shines-Bright-on-the-67th-Republic-Day-Today.-Elated!.php | title=This Is How Assam Shines Bright on the 67th Republic Day Today | publisher=Bordoisila | date=26 January 2016 | access-date=25 July 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820042937/http://bordoisila.in/social/This-Is-How-Assam-Shines-Bright-on-the-67th-Republic-Day-Today.-Elated!.php | archive-date=20 August 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Born in 1933 in the Jorhat district of the northeast Indian state of [[Assam]], he started his career as a lecturer, after completing his post graduate studies at [[Reading University]], UK.<ref name="Ngangom2009">{{cite book|author=Robin S. Ngangom|title=Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from North-East India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r1OfLmmI8kwC&pg=PA323|year=2009|publisher=Penguin Books India|isbn=978-0-14-310220-5|pages=323–}}</ref> When [[The Sentinel (Guwahati)|''The Sentinel'']] daily was established in 1983, he was selected as the founder editor, a post he held for a number of years.<ref name="Padma Sri for DN Bezbaruah, three others">{{cite web | url=http://www.sentinelassam.com/mainnews/story.php?sec=1&subsec=0&id=255273&dtP=2016-07-07&ppr=1#.V5ZQ_7h97IU | title=Padma Sri for DN Bezbaruah, three others | publisher=The Sentinel | date=25 January 2016 | access-date=25 July 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815211525/http://www.sentinelassam.com/mainnews/story.php?sec=1&subsec=0&id=255273&dtP=2016-07-07&ppr=1#.V5ZQ_7h97IU | archive-date=15 August 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He was associated with the Media Trust, Assam and was the working president of its celebration committee in 1992.<ref name="History">{{cite web | url=http://www.mediatrustassam.org/history/ | title=History | publisher=Media Trust | date=2016 | access-date=25 July 2016}}</ref> The many books he has published from [[Assamese language|Assamese]] into English includes ''The Cavern and Other Stories'', a short story anthology written by [[Bhabendra Nath Saikia]].<ref name="The Cavern and Other Stories">{{cite book | url=https://www.amazon.com/Cavern-Other-Stories-Bhabendra-Saikia-ebook/dp/B008IPFTJG#navbar | title=The Cavern and Other Stories | publisher=Nirvana Sutra | author=Bhabendra Nath Saikia (Author), D.N. Bezboruah (Translator) | year=2012 | pages=154 | ASIN=B008IPFTJG}}</ref> He received the B. D. Goenka Award for Journalism in 1997<ref name="Ngangom2009" /> and the Nachiketa Samman of ''[[Panchjanya (magazine)|Panchjanya]]'' weekly in 2001.<ref name="BJP suffers because of setting high standards of probity for itself">{{cite web | url=http://www.hvk.org/2001/0401/76.html | title=BJP suffers because of setting high standards of probity for itself | publisher=Hindu Vivek Kendra | date=April 2001 | access-date=25 July 2016}}</ref> He is also recipient of ''Katha Award'' for translation. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]], in 2016, for his contributions to literature.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/PadmaAwards_25012016.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2016 | access-date=3 January 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803085913/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/PadmaAwards_25012016.pdf | archive-date=3 August 2017 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[The Sentinel (Guwahati)|''The Sentinel'']]
* [[Bhabendra Nath Saikia]]
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{cite web | url=http://www.theshillongtimes.com/2016/01/26/ex-nehu-teacher-gets-padma-shri/ | title=Ex-NEHU teacher gets Padma Shri | newspaper=The Shillong Times | date=26 January 2016 | access-date=25 July 2016}}
* {{cite book|author1=Dr KH Kabi|author2=Dr. S N Pattnaik|title=Media, Conflict and Peace in Northeast India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k4BNCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA49|date=24 July 2015|publisher=Vij Books India Pvt Ltd|isbn=978-93-84464-44-8|pages=49–}}

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