The body of music maestro Bhupen Hazarika was flown to his home state of Assam from Mumbai on Monday.
The 86-year old singer who died in a Mumbai hospital on Saturday will be cremated tomorrow on the banks of the river Brahmaputra which had inspired a number of his compositions, our New Delhi correspondent Pallab Bhattacharya reports.
The body was taken by close family members of the legendary singer-composer from the Kolkilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Mumbai and the funeral will take place tomorrow at 1:00pm on the banks of Brahmaputra.
Assam government has taken all necessary arrangements in this regard.
The music doyen died of multiple-organ failure.
The demand for the cremation of Hazarika, one of the greatest cultural communicators of South Asia, on the Brahmaputra was first made by Assam’s influential students’ body All Assam Students Union and later backed by different quarters.
Meanwhile, thousands of people assembled at the statue of the balladeer in Assam’s capital city of Guwahati to pay their last respects to Hazarika.
The cremation of Hazarika on the banks of the Brahmaputra assumes significance as the imagery of rivers finds mention in many of his songs including “Ganga Aamaar Maa Padma Amaar Maa/Amaar Dui Chokehy Dui Jaler Dhara Meghna Jamuna” or “Oh Ganga Tumi Boicho Keno” or the Ganga, the Mekong, the Mississippi and the Volga which figure in his popular number “Charti Nodir Golpo Shono”.
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