Sattyakee D'com Bhuyan সাত্যকী ডি'কম ভূঞা | |
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| Born | 15 March 1973 Uzan Bazar, Guwahati |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, Director and Theatre Activist |
| Parent(s) | Dhiru Bhuyan (Father) Reeta Bhuyan (Mother) |
Sattyakee D'com Bhuyan is an Indian Actor, Director, Playwright, Writer, Theatre Activist from Assam. [1]
Sattyakee D'com Bhuyan was born in 1973 in Guwahati, Assam, India. He is the son of Dhiru Bhuyan, a Theatre Actor, Director and Assamese filmmaker, and Reeta Bhuyan, a homemaker. He is married to Rudrakshi Bhuyan, and they have a son named Gyaan Bhuyan and a daughter named Reeha Bhuyan.
He completed his schooling from Faculty Higher Secondary School, Guwahati and went on to receive his Bachelor of Arts in English from Cotton College in 1994. [2] In 2000, he completed his Master of Arts in Linguistics (Sociolinguistics) from Gauhati University [3] while working with The Telegraph as a correspondent. [4]
Since 1991, Sattyakee D'com Bhuyan has been a columnist, writing articles and features by invitation for various regional and national newspapers and magazines in India. His insightful contributions in the field of music and culture have been featured in publications including The Times of India, The Wire, [5] The Sentinel, The Telegraph, The Assam tribune.
From 2005 to 2014, D'com worked as a Communications Associate for the International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group) based in Kolkata, India, and Dhaka, Bangladesh. [6]
Since 2014, Sattyakee D'com Bhuyan has been serving as the Dean and Mentor for Communication Skills, English Language Teaching, and Theatre at the Royal Global School. [7] He also holds the position of Adjunct Faculty at the School of Communication and Media at The Royal Global University. [8] A national mentor for Katha Utsav, [9] a festival of young writers in India and Metropolis Asia [10] apart from conducting theatre workshops [11] [12]
He has also participated in the International Year of Indigenous Languages, 2019 through his Indigenous storytelling in Axomiya and Nagamese through Bamhum and Howey Music. [13]
He has participated in many TEDx events organized in Guwahati on the different themes like Wider Horizons, [14] "Reality Rings in Ancient Gongs - The Backstory." [15] And "Boundaries No More". [16]
He is the founder of the theatre group "D'Passion Collective". [17] He is also a member of the North East Writers Forum. [18]
He is enhancing the livelihood of folk media artists through classroom programs in many colleges and universities. [19] He regularly conducts theatre workshops for the overall development of creative minds [11] [20]
He has played the role of a sniper in the movie Mission China and the Assamese film Aamis. [21] [22] Apart from that, he has also appeared in "Anurag", "Asene Kunuba Hiyat", "Jwlwi", and others. On 4 February 2023, a documentary celebrating the life of the iconic musician Lou Majaw titled ‘The Platinum Gong’ directed by Sattyakee Dcom Bhuyan and produced by Dipak Chandra Das was released. [23] [24]
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