Assam Scholar Creates 'Record' in Delivering Lectures

Guwahati: Diganta Biswa Sarma, an Assam-based scholar has achieved an incredible feat by being the only speaker to have delivered 100 lectures on Indian culture in a year-long series thereby creating a phenomenal record.

These lectures were conducted in three languages - Assamese, Bengali and English.

The charismatic speaker had received the 2020 Sahitya Akademi award for translation and he also happens to be the president of the governing body of Guwahati Commerce College.

His series of lectures are based on the cultural opus titled 'The Renaissance in India and Other Essays on Indian Culture' written by the philosopher Shri Aurobindo.

It is to be noted that Sarma had been awarded the Sahitya Akademi award for translating this book into Assamese.

Sarma told that Assam University based in Silchar hosted the lecture series without any funding from either the Central or State governments or any agency or statutory body such as the University Grants Commission (UGC).

The lecturer also bragged about his achievement by stating that he is the first person in 200 years of India's modern university history to have delivered lectures on the same topic in three different languages.

The Assam University's Centre for Studies in Human Development has once again invited him for delivering a series of lectures across 150 sessions spanning a year and it will begin from February onwards.

The sessions will be centred around understanding the universal message of the Bhagavad Gita from Shri Aurobindo's perspective.

He has also been invited by the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati for a similar 150-session lecture series that would also start from February.

Sarma had cleared the combined competitive examination conducted by the Assam Public Service Commission and served as a state bureaucrat until January 2012 when he decided to pursue his academic interests.

Spirituality, yoga and Indian culture are his present areas of study.

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