Biography of nalinibala devil

She was born in Guwahati on March 23, in Assam, India. Her father was Karmaveer Nabin Chandra Bordoloi , was a famous freedom fighter and politician. She wrote her first poem, Pita at age Nalini Bala Devi tied the knot at the age of She is the first woman Assamese poet to be awarded with Padma Shri and the first lady to the chair the Assam Sahitya Sabha.

She was born in Guwahati , Assam in She wrote her first poem, Pita at age 10, and was married at age 12, but her husband, Jeeveshwar Changkakoti, died when she was Two of her sons also died early in her life. She began writing poems, with emotion, tragedy, patriotism and devotion as central themes, which are still acclaimed in Assamese literature.

Her first book of poems Sandhiyar Sur Evening Melody , [ 5 ] published in , was later adopted by Calcutta University and Guwahati University as a textbook in and respectively. She died on 24 December , but is remembered in Assamese literature by the last four lines of her famous poem NaatGhar The theatre. She was awarded with Sahitya Akademi Award for her poetry anthology Alakananda in [ 10 ] and conferred Padma Shri in by the Government of India.

Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In her father was jailed for his part in anti-British agitation, and her five-year-old son was burnt to death. These tragic incidents in life however could not break her down and she started writing poems, with emotion, tragedy, patriotism and devotion as central themes, which are still acclaimed in Assamese literature She assuaged her sorrow by writing poems and letters to her father in jail.

Her first collection, Sandhiyar Sur, came out in Later, in , her father's death coincided with that of her son Pabitra. She was the product of her time and family lineage. Together with others, Nalini Bala Devi worked for the language movement of to declare Assamese as the state language. She further played a significant role in the Oil Refinery mass movement in Assam.

She was a part of the delegation that went to meet Feroze Gandhi, the chairman of Oil India, to discuss matters. Nalini Bala Devi also rejected the idea in to separate the hill districts from Assam and create an autonomous Hill State. Apart from these, she was the first woman to hold the post of chairperson of Assam Sahitya Sabha. She was also one of the co-founders of All Assam Maina Parijat.

Her writing allows us to view the Independence movement through the perspective of the Assamese. Her love for her motherland can be best described when she writes —. The mind is at peace only by serving the motherland. Simantini Sarkar is a student, writer, and feminist, as well as a literature and film enthusiast. She writes for various online and offline magazines and is a budding translator.

Simantini is also an aspiring research student.