Nationality Indian Ethnicity Assamese | Citizenship Indian Name Radha Baruah | |
Born October 17, 1900 ( 1900-10-17 ) Died July 15, 1977(1977-07-15) (aged 76) Known for Eminent sports enthusiast and social worker from Assam. Started Assam Flying club. First Mayor of Guwahati. Started the Guwahati Tea Auction Center. The Nehru Stadium at Guwahati was built under his leadership. The entire Stadium Complex is now named R.G.Baruah Sports Complex. Played a key role during freedom struggle including ensuring that Assam and North East went to India during the partition. Religion Hindu (Assamese Brahmin) | ||
Radha Govinda Baruah (Assamese: ৰাধাগোবিন্দ বৰুৱা) (17 October 1900 – 15 July 1977) was the founder of The Assam Tribune, a group of news papers. Radha Govinda Baruah, an enterprising person in Dibrugarh, first conceived the idea of launching an English daily. With some help from his friends and well wishers, he brought out an English weekly newspaper instead of a daily on August 4, 1939 under the editorship of Lakshminath Phookan, former editorial staff of Hindustan Standard, a leading daily of Anand Bazar Group, Kolkata. He founded the Assam Tribune in 1939. He was a sports enthusiast, who was president of the Assam Cricket Association for over a decade. He is also noted for his contributions to the society and culture of Assam. He is called "the architect of modern Assam" for his being "instrumental in realising the educational needs" of the Assamese people. Radha Govinda Baruah College (or R G Baruah College) in Guwahati is named after him. He is called the "Lion Man". In 2000, he was honoured with a postage stamp, part of a series of "Great Leaders : Social and Political" along with Jaglal Choudhary, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, and Diwan Bahadur R. Srinivasan.