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Sattyakee D'com Bhuyan সাত্যকী ডি'কম ভূঞা | |
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 Bhuyan in 2023 | |
| Born | 15 March 1973 Guwahati, Assam, India |
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| Parent | Dhiru Bhuyan (father) |
Sattyakee D'com Bhuyan is an Indian actor, director, playwright, writer, and theatre activist from Guwahati, Assam. [1]
Sattyakee D'com Bhuyan was born in 1973 in Guwahati, Assam, India. He is the son of Dhiru Bhuyan, an actor and filmmaker. [2]
Bhuyan completed his schooling at Faculty Higher Secondary School, Amingaon and went on to receive his bachelor of arts degree in English from Cotton College in 1994. [3] In 2000, he completed his master of arts in sociolinguistics at Gauhati University [4] while working at The Telegraph as a correspondent. [5]
Since 1991, Bhuyan has been a columnist, writing articles and features by invitation for various regional and national newspapers and magazines in India. His contributions in the fields of music and culture have been featured in such publications as The Times of India ,[ citation needed ] The Wire , [6] The Sentinel , [7] The Telegraph,[ citation needed ] and The Assam Tribune .[ citation needed ]
From 2005 to 2014, he worked as a communications associate for the International Finance Corporation, based in Kolkata and Dhaka, Bangladesh. [8]
Bhuyan is an adjunct faculty member at the School of Communication and Media at Royal Global University in Guwahati. [9] He is a national mentor for Katha Utsav, [10] a festival of young writers in India, and he conducts various theatre workshops. [11] [12] Additionally, he is the founder of the D'Passion Collective theatre group. [13]
Bhuyan has participated in the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages through his indigenous storytelling in Assamese and Nagamese creole. [14] He has also taken part in TEDx events in Guwahati, including "Wider Horizons" (2017), [15] "Boundaries No More" (2018), [16] and "Reality Rings in Ancient Gongs – The Backstory" (2021). [17]
Bhuyan has appeared in the 2017 action film Mission China as a sniper. [18] [19]
He directed the 2023 documentary film The Platinum Gong, celebrating the life of musician Lou Majaw. [20] [21]
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