Harekrishna Deka
Harekrishna Deka is a former member of the Indian Police Service who is now known for his writing. He was the Director General of Police for Assam from 2000–2003.
Harekrishna Deka
- Born
- 1943
- Nationality
- India
- Occupation
- poet
- Honours
- Sahitya Akademi Award
- Languages
- Assamese
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Harekrishna Deka is a former member of the Indian Police Service who is now known for his writing. He was the Director General of Police for Assam from 2000–2003.
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Harekrishna Deka (born 1943) is an Indian poet.
Languages used include Assamese. The poet received Sahitya Akademi Award.
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Harekrishna Deka started writing poems and short stories in his student days, and continued this as a hobby during his police career. He has won the following awards: • 1987 - Sahitya Akademi Award for his poem Ann Ejan • 1995 - Katha Award for his short story Bandiyar (Prisoner) • 2010 - Assam Valley Literary Award After retiring from the police service, Deka briefly edited the English daily The Sentinel before editing the Assamese literary monthly Gariyasi.
Poetry
Poetry
• Swarabor (Voices) 1972 • Ratir Sobhajatra (Procession by Night) 1978 • Aan Ejan (Another One), 1986, also translated to Bengali and Oriya • Kabita 1960-1980 (Poems 1960-1980), 2002 • Bhalpoar Babe Exar (A Word for Love), 2003 • Xanmihali Barnamala (Mixed Alphabets), 2010 • Sea-Scare (poems translated to English), 2001
Short stories
Short stories
• Prakritik aru Anyanya (The Natural and other stories), 1900 • Madhusudanar Dolong (Madhusudan's Bridge), 1992 • Bandiyar (Captive), 1996, Also translated to Oriya • Post-modern athaba Galpa (Post-modern or Short Story), 2001 • Mrityudanda (Death Sentence), 2006 • Galpa aru Kalpa (Story and Fiction), 2009
Novels
Novels
• Agantuk (Strangers), 2008
Translations
Translations
• Pratixarita Rashmi (Refracted Light). Translation of poems of Saint John Perse, Yanis Ritsos, Vasco Popa and Jaroslav Seifert, 1992
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1943
Harekrishna Deka born.
Edited books
• Tarun Prajanmar Kabita (Poetry of the Young Generation), 2005
Literary criticism
Literary criticism
• Adhunikatavad aru Anyanya Prabandha (Modernism and other essays), 1998 • Beekson aru Xandhan (Insight and Investigation), 2000 • Dristi aru Sristi (Look and Creation), 2006 • Nilamani Phukan: Kabi aru Kabita (Nilamani Phukan: the poet and his poems), 2010
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- 1.Deka, S. Kumar. Former DGP of Assam finds #EVM and #VVPAT malfunction as he cast his vote. TIMES OF ASSAM. 23 April 2019.
- 2.Akademi Awards (1955-2015).
- 3.The Assam Valley Literary Award : Harekrishna Deka (2010) : Indian Literature, Arts, Culture and History of India, Writers, Critics and Poets at Indian Review. 21 July 2011.
- 4.Katha Books. 1995 awards. books.katha.org.
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Harekrishna Deka is recorded as having received Sahitya Akademi Award.
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Social criticism
• Prabrajan aru Anupravex (Immigration and Infiltration), 2010 • Xarbabhoumatva, Xantraxvad aru Nagarik Xamaj (Sovereignty, Terrorism and Civil Society), 2010