GUWAHATI, Feb 2 - Noted journalist and editor of Asam Bani, Dilip Chandan was awarded the Sahityacharyya Syed Abdul Malik Award for his novel Kazirangar Ballad by the president of the Asam Sahitya Sabha, Dr Dhrubajyoti Bora at the Pandit Hemchandra Goswami Sammanay Kshetra recently on the occasion of the concluding ceremony of the silver jubilee celebrations of the Golaghat Didstrict Sahitya Sabha and the sixth annual special session�s open meeting in Golaghat district recently.
It may be mentioned that the award presented by the Golaghat District Sahitya Sabha has earlier been won by Dr Bora also. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Bora said that the managements of the universities have not been able to answer the question as to whether Assamese language will continue to exist at the graduate level in the arts, commercce or science streams. Even though the Sahitya Sabha has posed this question many a time to the authorities, no satisfactory answer has been forthcoming from the latter. In this context, it may be said that the university authorities are working for the ruin of the Assamese language, he said and appealed to the younger generation to love and respect their language, because only if language exists, culture will exist and only if culture exists, a civilization will continue to grow.