Dr Sanjib Kumar Borkakoti

            I attended the national seminar on ‘Development and sustainability: Emerging challenges in Northeast India, with special reference to Arunachal Pradesh’ held in Government College, Bomdila, Arunachal Pradesh on 30th January, 2024. I arrived on the previous day with my family and was received by Dr Vineeta Dowera and other faculty members in the Circuit House of Bomdila. Then Chorten Norbu took us around the town for sight-seeing.         I delivered the key-note address in the seminar, organised by the Commerce Department, in collaboration with the higher & technical education directorate, Govt of Arunachal Pradesh . My theme was "Conflict between Development and Nature: case for sustainability." I said that the fall-out of the development process is that the use of machinery and equipment go on increasing, the power requirements also rising along with it. All these mean extraction of natural resources from earth and converting them to commodities for use in

I attended the  Delphic Cultural Summit held in Kolkata on 12-14 October in the capacity of Secretary General, Delphic Council of North East. The event was organised by Bengal Delphic Council in association with National Delphic Council of India. It was collaborated by UNESCO, British Council, Delphic Council of Nepal etc. Fortyfive delegates attended from different countries in addition to Indian delegates from different states. Our Delphic Council of North East took part in a big way in the Cultural Summit. Swapnanil Barua, myself, Dr Prasanna Gogoi, Somnath Bora Oja, Brigadier Sanjeev Chopra, Asomee Dutta Barua, Ranjan Bezbarua, Khyo Ngulli, Mrinmoyee Goswami, Gumjum Haider, Krishnanjan Chanda and Swapna Anjan Bora took part in this event on behalf of Delphic Council of North East. A Bihu performance by Dr Prasanna Gogoi and Somnath Bora Oja made the participants of the Cultural Summit spellbound. Somnath Bora Oja played six Dhols, supported by Swapna Anjan Bora, while Dr Prasanna G

The English biography 'Madhavadeva' has been published by the reputed internationally renowned publisher Motilal Banarasidass Publishing House, New Delhi (established in 1903) under the imprint New Age Publishing. I have presented the details of Madhavadeva's life in 288 pages. It is based on my own research of the medieval hagiographies. It is available both in hard cover and paperback. For those who are interested in procuring the book, some links are: Motilal Banarasidass Website Amazon website The book is globally available at  Abebooks website

A National Seminar on life and contributions of Srimanta Sankaradeva was held in Panjab University, Chandigarh under the aegis of the Srimanta Sankaradeva chair attached to the Sanskrit department. The Sanskrit department and Hindi department jointly organised the event. I was invited to this event as a resource person. A declamation contest was held on the first day, 13th March, 2023 on the topic of Srimanta Sankaradeva. Students of Panjab University participated in this contest. Prof Suryakant Tripathy and Dr Karabi Devi were the judges. Five prizes were awarded, two of which were sponsored by me. On 14th March, the main seminar was held in the Golden Jubilee Hall. It was attended by the students, researchers and faculty members of the university.  The seminar was inaugurated by Prof Renu Vig, Vice Chancellor of Panjab University. She thanked Govt of Assam for sponsoring the chair. Earlier Prof Yojna Rawat, the co-ordinator of the  Srimanta Sankaradeva  chair gave welcome address, in

Early life I was born at Bongalpukhuri, Na-Ali, Jorhat, Assam, India on 27th May, 1960. My father Harendra Chandra Borkakoti was an engineer, working in the Public Works Department, Assam Government, who expired in 2007. My mother Jyoti Prabha Borkakoti is daughter of Lakshminath Dutta, former Head-master and Principal of Jorhat Government Boys Higher Secondary & Multi-purpose School. I spent my childhood in different places of Assam. I lived with my family at Boko, Mirza, Jalukbari (Guwahati), North Lakhimpur, Laluk, and Dhemaji. I have five siblings, two younger brothers, two elder sisters and a younger sister. All of them are married. My eldest sister Pritam has expired. Education I received first education at home from a tutor named Badan Chandra Talukdar. I studied in several schools. Those were Boko L.P. School, Mirza L.P. School, Gauhati University Model School and Cotton Collegiate Higher Secondary School, Guwahati. I passed high school leaving certificate examinations fr

The second edition of my English biography 'Mahapurusha  Srimanta Sankaradeva'  has been published by the reputed internationally renowned publisher Motilal Banarasidass Publishing House, New Delhi (established in 1903) under the imprint New Age Publishing. It is available both in hard cover and paperback.  For those who are interested in procuring the book, some links are: https://www.mlbd.in/products/mahapurusha-srimanta-sankaradeva-9789394201866-9394201866-9789394201873-9394201874?fbclid=IwAR3Ga72ihp3ap1_ClGfppEqKZZuFiCULwvMQ8kYMUVj7r5no6JNi7tI5UCc https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31319118521&searchurl=an%3Dsanjib%2Bkumar%2Bborkakoti%26sortby%3D17&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title2&fbclid=IwAR0jQIxF_4wX6cE04LZBdN7YcMIBxNHjBKxtwbaaFo0BtFlUhdxRyUI41VU https://www.ibpbooks.com/mahapurusha-srimanta-sankaradeva/p/57872?fbclid=IwAR341c2YyGl6Cz3sNHXLB9YBuKki3zUbc89xF33DtgyvqJldUctHR40oTwg