Tuesday, July 20, 2010

News at Eleven: A prominent "ILU" signature in red

on a peeling wall screams of neglect that the Orissa home of Assam's "king of humour" Lakshminath Bezbaruah has suffered in the past 73 years.

Weather-beaten, decrepit and reeking of abandonment, the house at Nelson Mandela Square on the bank of Mahanadi, where the literary icon lived for several years, has finally been chosen by the Assam government for preservation.

from The Telegraph: Life for poet's Orissa home- Dispur to restore Lakshminath Bezbaruah's house

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