GUWAHATI, Nov 25 - Tarun Gogoi was the finest specimen of the best of the Ahom royalty and the finest of the modern Assamese culture and socio-political life, said senior journalist DN Chakravartty while paying tribute to former Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.
�He used to say that he was a �Bombhola Ahom�. Indeed he was, with a golden heart in the truest sense of the term,� Chakravartty said.
Chakravartty said that his father Durganath Chakravartty and Gogoi�s father Dr Kamaleswar Gogoi were intimate friends serving under the same tea company in Jorhat.
�Both were tennis mates and constant companions in various activities including angling. Tarun Gogoi was a noble son of a noble and great father. Dr Gogoi used to come and visit tea garden labourers whenever he was intimated of any type of illness suffered by any of them,� he said.
Chakravartty added that the former Chief Minister�s elder brother Dr Padum Gogoi was one year senior to him (Chakravartty) and they were high school friends. �While our parents were playing tennis, we used to collect the tennis balls that went outside the court and retain the old ones. Dr Padum Gogoi was an open-hearted gentleman and unfortunately had a premature death,� Chakravartty said.
Recollecting his close association with Tarun Gogoi while the latter was State Congress president and MP, Chakravartty said Gogoi used to get down from his bicycle on the Beltola-Dispur road whenever Chakravartty crossed him on his way to his office.
Chakravartty said that he, along with the late technocrat Prafulla Mahanta and the late bureaucrat Pratul Chandra Sarma, used to meet Gogoi regularly over various public issues when he was Chief Minister. �Often he kept us sitting for a long time as he enjoyed chatting with his old friends � so much so that we feared incurring the wrath of those waiting outside for an appointment,� he said.
GUWAHATI, Nov 25 - Tarun Gogoi was the finest specimen of the best of the Ahom royalty and the finest of the modern Assamese culture and socio-political life, said senior journalist DN Chakravartty while paying tribute to former Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.
�He used to say that he was a �Bombhola Ahom�. Indeed he was, with a golden heart in the truest sense of the term,� Chakravartty said.
Chakravartty said that his father Durganath Chakravartty and Gogoi�s father Dr Kamaleswar Gogoi were intimate friends serving under the same tea company in Jorhat.
�Both were tennis mates and constant companions in various activities including angling. Tarun Gogoi was a noble son of a noble and great father. Dr Gogoi used to come and visit tea garden labourers whenever he was intimated of any type of illness suffered by any of them,� he said.
Chakravartty added that the former Chief Minister�s elder brother Dr Padum Gogoi was one year senior to him (Chakravartty) and they were high school friends. �While our parents were playing tennis, we used to collect the tennis balls that went outside the court and retain the old ones. Dr Padum Gogoi was an open-hearted gentleman and unfortunately had a premature death,� Chakravartty said.
Recollecting his close association with Tarun Gogoi while the latter was State Congress president and MP, Chakravartty said Gogoi used to get down from his bicycle on the Beltola-Dispur road whenever Chakravartty crossed him on his way to his office.
Chakravartty said that he, along with the late technocrat Prafulla Mahanta and the late bureaucrat Pratul Chandra Sarma, used to meet Gogoi regularly over various public issues when he was Chief Minister. �Often he kept us sitting for a long time as he enjoyed chatting with his old friends � so much so that we feared incurring the wrath of those waiting outside for an appointment,� he said.
