Jatin Mipun passes away
By a Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, Jan 15: Noted litterateur and Director of State Fire Service
Organization Dr Jatin Mipun passed away on Saturday night in Goa due to heart
attack. The 54-year-old IPS officer, known for his contribution to Asomiya,
Mising and English literatures, went to Goa with his wife and two sons on
January 10. On Saturday night, he suffered from a stroke and was rushed to a
hospital where he breathed his last at 2 a.m.
Born at Gandhia Mising Gaon under Nakachari mouza in Jorhat district on August
1, 1952, Mipun started contributing to different magazines and newspapers from
1968. Mipun, who began his career as a lecturer of Sociology in Dhemaji College
and Dibrugarh University, joined as the First District Research Officer in 1979
at Diphu. He joined as ACS(1) in 1980 and was posted as an Extra Assistant
Commissioner (EAC) in Dhubri. Mipun was awarded the PhD degree by Dibrugarh
University for his thesis entitled Mising Samaj aru Sanskritit Adhunikotar
Pravab (Influence of Modernism in Mising Society and Culture) in April, 1998.
He joined in State Fire Service as Director (in the rank of DGP, Asom Police)
on September 30, 1997. Mipun, who was promoted as IGP on August 14, 2002, was
due to retire on July 31, 2012. He was the first person from the Mising tribe
to join as the Indian Police Service in 1983 in Asom-Meghalaya cadre.
Mipuns best known novel Miksijili, for which he got Ambikagiri Rai Choudhury
Award from the Axom Xahitya Xabha, was telecast by Doordarshan as a serial.
Besides this novel, other books of Mipun are Kangkanor Prithivi, Axom Darshan,
Mipak Makab, Tani Agom, Joyosreer Kothare, Lajjar Desot Laj Pai Ahilo, Kati
Bihur Ruprekha, Axom Darshan, Barta Pakhilir Nirvachit Golpo, Missing Culture
of Assam etc. Another book of Mipun, who was the chief editor of magazine Barta
Pakhili, which is to be released soon is Atai. Dupor Nixar Banhit is the volume
of his collection of poems. His Barta Pakhilir Nirvachit Golpo was released on
January 6 which was his last meeting on dais. Mipun was also awarded Bharat
Jyoti award in 2003 by the India International Society.
Mipuns body was taken to Guwahati today and was taken to the State Fire
Service, DGP office and Axom Xahita Xabha office before being cremated at
Sonaighuli, Kahilipara where he owns a plot of land. Mipun is survived by his
wife Nilima Mipun, also an ACS officer, and three sons. He was residing at his
Patarkuchi house in Basistha.
Meanwhile, Asom Governor Lt Gen (Retd) Ajai Singh, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi,
AGP president Bridabon Goswami, Axom Xahitya Xabha president Kanaksen Deka,
Asom Police DGP RN Mathur have condoled death of Dr Mipun whom they termed as
an able administrator and a powerful writer.
Condoling the death of Mipun, Editor of Varta Pakhili Brajen Deka said, Asom
has lost a powerful writer of recent times. The Varta Pakhili and the AXX are
gong to organize a condolence meeting at Bhagawati Prasad Baruah Bhavan in the
city on January 18 at 3 pm.
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