Please join me in a prayer for our dedicated geography teacher, the man always in white dhoti and punjabi, Nagen Choudhury. We offer our deep condolences to Nagen Sir's family, including Amarendra who was my class mate in Collegiate School. Dilip Deka, Houston, Texas P.S. I thank Bhaiti (Pradip Kakati) for sharing the news. ============================================================== Nagendra Nath Choudhury Renowned educationist and retired teacher of Cotton Collegiate Higher Secondary School of Guwahati Nagendra Nath Choudhury passed away on August 17 last at his Kumarpara residence, Guwahati due to old age ailments at the age of 94. He was born to late Kanthiram Deka Pandit and late Maimala Choudhury at Sarthebari village of undivided Kamrup on October 12, 1918. After teaching in various schools in Assam he joined Cotton Collegiate HS School in the year 1952 and retired from there in 1978. I still remember how he taught us Geography in the class and also taught how to draw maps of India, Asia and Assam. During his teaching in the class, the entire students were in pin drop silence. In my view it will be difficult to find out a second one like him especially in geography. He wrote books like Bhogul Parichay, Bhuchitrabali etc, which were very popular text books amongst the students during that time. He was a soft spoken and a very pious man with high personality. Though he was bed ridden for the last around five years due to fracture of his legs and other old age ailments even then he always welcomed everybody who visited him with smiling face. He was actively associated with the various socio-cultural organisations especially in entire Kumarpara area. He was one of the founder members of Kumarpara namghar was actively associated with its construction. He leaves behind two sons, daughter-in-laws, three married daughters, son-in-laws, grandchildren and host of relatives. Today, on his adya sraddha we pray to the Almighty to rest his soul in eternal peace. – Pradip Kakati _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
