The awards for the Gariyoshi Chandra Prasad Saikia short story competition, 2009, were conferred on three winners at a solemn function held in the city today. The programme, attended by Governor JB Patnaik, saw rich tributes being paid to the late Saikia, a distinguished litterateur and editor of Gariyoshi, who passed away on this day in 2006. The first prize was awarded to Ushamoni Kakoti, a student of Dibrugarh University for her story Eta Natun Khel. The second prize went to Mrinmoy Kumar Nath, while the third prize was won by Achyut Gogoi. Presiding over the function, eminent novelist and editor of Gariyoshi Dr LN Bora, paid tributes to Chandra Prasad Saikia, describing him as an extraordinary person with acute intellectual abilities and a firm commitment to his job as an editor.
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