It was Wednesday evening, March 7, 2012. We were all, my family, in Hajo in a somber mood. My mother was not keeping well, suffering from liver disease. We were all sitting around her & Mamon's (my wife) phone rang. It was Shashwathi. Within no time after picking the call Mamon jumped up and shouted through her head "what .. what" & then "congratulations' and passed the phone to me.
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With an excited voice & in her own way Shashwathi passed me the news - Dhruba (Dhruba Jyoti Phukan) got National Award Rajat Kamal for Best Music Director in Panchakki.
Undoubtedly that was an amazing piece of news & that changed the mood of somber evening to delightful one. Congratulations Gandhi & very well deserved one.You made us proud! Your hard work & dedication paid itself.
I know Dhruba, later turned to Gandhi, courtesy Rabin and Trinayan, since our college days. He was my room mate in Arya Vidyapeeth College hostel. He was known as a very honest studious boy who can play little bit of tabla. He had good interest in Physics and talks in a geeky look about relativity. If you had not read & thorough in Einstein Theory of Relativity by Dr Sivanath Barman (Assamese translation) then you need to think twice what to talk to him. After 10 plus 2 he joined Assam Engineering College to study Mechanical Engineering and that's where he started focusing on music with a small Casio synthesizer. He continued å this small synthesizer for long.
After engineering he didn't took up a job even though he is a brilliant Engineer & continued his focus on music. Post engineering we, Gandhi, Trinayan, Rabin & myself, lived together for few years in Guwahati, Assam & witness his 24 hour plus hard work on creating new music. Those days in Assam it was unthinkable to live a life with music. Gandhi with his sheer dedication and ernestful love for music did that, got married to Shashwati, a singer by herself, and later both moved to Mumbai. Today, he is a well known musician - I have asked him put together his creative collections in a website - hopefully he will do that sometime.
Well done Gandhi. Continue your journey. Today you are "Music Head"! You made all of us proud.
My mother is also doing better now - may be there is little of Gandhi in that as well.
May 4, 2012 - He received the award from Vice President Shri Hamid Ansari yesterday.
May 4, 2012 - He received the award from Vice President Shri Hamid Ansari yesterday.
That was an amazing read. The most important of all for us as of now is that the musician is an ex-boarder of AVCBH. We are celebrating the Golden Jubillee of the hostel this year and we will be more than happy to have Dhruba Da in the celebration.
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