Echoes of My Mind

Eulogizing The Great Master Anwesa Mahanta Newer interpretations always find its way in the task of discerning and reviewing a higher ideal. Srimanta Sankaradeva (1449-1568), saint and preacher, poet and playwright, philosopher and reformer, artist and composer (“all rolled into one” as described by Vasudev Saran Agrawal), being the fountainhead of the Bhakti resurgence in Assam, is such a colossus. The magnanimous contributions by this great saint poet stand as a prism that reflects shades of newer horizons of thoughts providing thereby various scopes of insights on Vaisnava Renaissance in Assam. Be it in the field of social reformation, or in creating a new range of literary compositions or even in introducing a different interpretative medium of human expression, theatre, music and dance, the composer, splendidly left an indelible print of creative excellence. Indeed he has remained a ‘Master’ who brought a new change of direction in the society and elevated the life of the c...