- Search engine giant Google honored Dr Bhupen Hazarika on his 96th birth anniversary (8 September 1926) with a doodle on its webpage.
- The doodle has been created by Mumbai-based guest artist Rutuja Mali.
- Born in 1926 in Sadiya, Assam, Dr. Bhupen Hazarika is today a stalwart in the archives of India’s cultural heritage.
- He is popularly known as Sudhakantha, which means Nightingale.
- A versatile talent, he is a fine poet, musician, singer, actor, journalist, writer and filmmaker of the highest order.
- He is the only living pioneer of Assam’s film industry in the Northeast, and therefore, has been appropriately acclaimed as the uncrowned king of the cultural world of North-East India.
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