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| Kamal Kumar Tanti |
Kamal Kumar
Tanti (b. 1982) is a well-known young voice in the contemporary world of Assamese
Poetry. Kamal is a bilingual poet and writer, writes both in English and
Assamese languages. He belongs to Adivasi Tea-garden Labourer Community of
Assam. His first collection of Assamese poetry Marangburu Amar Pita
(Our Father Marangburu), published in 2007, won him the prestigious Sahitya
Akademi Yuva Puraskar in 2012, for Assamese language and Munin Barkotoki
Literary Award in 2008.
Kamal’s English
poems have appeared in many journals, including Indian Literature, The
Little Magazine, Muse India, Kavya Bharati, Pyrta, Exchanges Literary Journal,
Cerebration, NELit Review, Kritya, Visual Verse, Brown Critique, Steer Queer,
etc. His poems also included in several anthologies of English poems, including
40 Under 40: an anthology of Post-Globalization Poetry, Shout It
Out! Anthology, The World I Write In, etc. His Assamese poems have
been included in various anthologies of Assamese poetry and featured in various
journals in Assamese. His forthcoming collection of Assamese poetry is
Uttar-Ouponibeshik Kabita (Postcolonial Poems).
Kamal’s
collection of prose in Assamese, Nimnaborgo Somaaj Oitijya (Subaltern
Society's Legacy) comprised articles on post-colonial theory and subaltern
historiography, with specific reference to colonial history and culture of
Assam and was published in September 2007. This book was selected as one of the
“Ten Best Books” among all the Assamese books that has been published during
the year 2007-08, by Grantha-Bandhab (Friends of Books), a well-known
organization in Assam. He also writes fiction occasionally.
Kamal has a PhD
in Astronomy & Astrophysics, for which he worked at the Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research, Mumbai and Gauhati University, Guwahati. Kamal worked for
a leading Telematics company in Mumbai, and was a Modeling and Simulation
Engineer with a software company in Pune. He was also closely associated with
the “Design, calibration & testing of Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope
(UVIT)”, onboard ASTROSAT, First Indian Multi-wavelength Satellite for Astronomical
Observations, launched by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), in 2015.
He is currently working as an Assistant Professor of Physics at Rajiv Gandhi
Institute of Petroleum Technology, Assam Centre and lives in Sivasagar, Assam,
India.
Complete
Contact Information of the Poet:
Dr. Kamal Kumar
Tanti
Assistant
Professor (Physics), Department of Physics
Rajiv Gandhi
Institute of Petroleum Technology, Assam Centre
RGIPT Project
Office, Akhoiphutia Road, Baniabari
Sivasagar –
785640, Assam, India.
E-mail ID:
maarangburu@gmail.com, kamaltanti@gmail.com
Mobile: +91-82570-67297,
+91-8730804101.