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Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Nalini Prava Deka was a prominent Assamese lady author, poet, storyteller, essayist, actress and radio playwright from Assam, a state encompassing the Brahmaputra valley in India. She played crucial pioneering role in the traditional Assamese society through nurturing and promoting Assamese heritage, traditional customs, ethnic weaving traditions and fabric art, ethnic Assamese food preparation techniques, traditional folk music, Assamese social ethos like inter-religious tolerance and gender-neutrality together with her famous scholar husband Prof. Bhabananda Deka. They both devoted their entire lives in extensive research and promotion of traditional Assamese lifestyle, art, literature and culture through significant social and intellectual works, and left behind a rich legacy of books under their individual authorships and prestigious institutions. She was the first Indian lady Editor-Publisher-Printer-Distributor of an iconic children's magazine called Phul('Flower'). She authored a total of 30(thirty) numbers of critically acclaimed books. India Government owned national radio channel All India Radio broadcast many of her radio-plays on topical issues relating to women and children.The highest circulated and oldest English daily of entire North East India The Assam Tribune acknowledged that Nalini Prava Deka has “been like an institution to our society”, and she “has contributed immensely to the cultural and economic spheres of our state”. Another leading Assamese daily Dainik Sankarjyoti published from Guwahati city in India described how she played a notably significant role in nurturing the traditional Assamese lifestyle and social ethos by practicing and promoting Assamese weaving traditions by setting up and maintaining Assamese hand-loom units called Taat Xaal wherein ethnic Assamese daily-wear costumes like Mekhela Chador and Churiya Chapkon are woven, and also traditional Assamese crop-grinding units called Dheki which is used for producing traditional Assamese food-items and snacks like rice and Pithaguri, while at the same time propagating through her literary and research activities unique Assamese social practices like inter-religious tolerance & understanding, gender neutrality and progressive activism, thereby ushering in a social resurgence in Assam and India. Her solitary initiatives were unprecedented in the annals of history in the north-eastern part of India. She died on 15 June 2014 in Guwahati city in India.ChaiTunes recently released a music video as a tribune to the notable social contributions of this outstanding Assamese personality."@en }

• Nalini_Prava_Deka abstract "Nalini Prava Deka was a prominent Assamese lady author, poet, storyteller, essayist, actress and radio playwright from Assam, a state encompassing the Brahmaputra valley in India. She played crucial pioneering role in the traditional Assamese society through nurturing and promoting Assamese heritage, traditional customs, ethnic weaving traditions and fabric art, ethnic Assamese food preparation techniques, traditional folk music, Assamese social ethos like inter-religious tolerance and gender-neutrality together with her famous scholar husband Prof. Bhabananda Deka. They both devoted their entire lives in extensive research and promotion of traditional Assamese lifestyle, art, literature and culture through significant social and intellectual works, and left behind a rich legacy of books under their individual authorships and prestigious institutions. She was the first Indian lady Editor-Publisher-Printer-Distributor of an iconic children's magazine called Phul('Flower'). She authored a total of 30(thirty) numbers of critically acclaimed books. India Government owned national radio channel All India Radio broadcast many of her radio-plays on topical issues relating to women and children.The highest circulated and oldest English daily of entire North East India The Assam Tribune acknowledged that Nalini Prava Deka has “been like an institution to our society”, and she “has contributed immensely to the cultural and economic spheres of our state”. Another leading Assamese daily Dainik Sankarjyoti published from Guwahati city in India described how she played a notably significant role in nurturing the traditional Assamese lifestyle and social ethos by practicing and promoting Assamese weaving traditions by setting up and maintaining Assamese hand-loom units called Taat Xaal wherein ethnic Assamese daily-wear costumes like Mekhela Chador and Churiya Chapkon are woven, and also traditional Assamese crop-grinding units called Dheki which is used for producing traditional Assamese food-items and snacks like rice and Pithaguri, while at the same time propagating through her literary and research activities unique Assamese social practices like inter-religious tolerance & understanding, gender neutrality and progressive activism, thereby ushering in a social resurgence in Assam and India. Her solitary initiatives were unprecedented in the annals of history in the north-eastern part of India. She died on 15 June 2014 in Guwahati city in India.ChaiTunes recently released a music video as a tribune to the notable social contributions of this outstanding Assamese personality.".