Surjya Kanta Hazarika
Born	(1956-05-31) 31 May 1956 (age 65) Dibrugarh, Assam
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Journalist Writer Lyricist Poet Film maker
Spouse(s)	Eva Hazarika

Surjya Kanta Hazarika (Assamese: সূৰ্য কান্ত হাজৰিকা) is an Assamese writer, lyricist, poet, film maker and educationist. Hazarika is a recipient of the Padma Shri Award in 2008 for his contribution to Literature & Education. ^[1] ^[2]

Notable works

Feature film

Srimanta Sankardeva (2010) ^[3]

Director of TV serials

Year	TV serials	Remarks
1993	Nirmal Bhakat	5 Episodes in Hindi on Assam History Story by Legendary Novelist Rajanikanta Bordoloi ^[3]
2004	Dhanya Nara Tanu Bhal	8 Episodes in Hindi based on the Legendary Srimanta Sankardeva's Life & Activities ^[3]
2004	Tore More Aalokore Jatra	8 Episodes in Assamese based on Life & Activities of Cultural Icon Jyoti Prasad Agarwalla ^[3]
2004	Ananya Prantar	8 Episodes in Assamese based on Assam History ^[3]
2005	Maharathi	8 Episodes in Hindi based on Karna character of Epic Mahabharata) story by Chandra Prasad Saikia ^[3]
2011	Noi Boi Jai	A serial based on cultural frictions of Assam , story by Dr.Lila Gogoi ^[3]

References

^ "Previous Padma Awardees". Padma Awards, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
^ "119 get Padma awards". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 25 January 2008.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Director Surjya Kanta Hazarika's profile". Srimanta Sankardeva Films. Retrieved 5 September 2020.

v t e Recipients of Padma Shri in Literature & Education
1950s	K. Shankar Pillai (1954) Krishna Kanta Handique (1955) Surya Kumar Bhuyan (1956) Sukhdev Pande (1956) Nalini Bala Devi (1957) S. R. Ranganathan (1957) Ram Chandra Varma (1958) Magan Lal Tribhuvandas Vyas (1958) K. S. Chandrasekharan (1958)
1960s	B. S. Kesavan (1960) Artaballabha Mohanty (1960) N. D. Sundaravadivelu (1961) Vinayaka Krishna Gokak (1961) Vishnukant Jha (1961) Jinvijay (1961) Evengeline Lazarus (1961)
1970s	Ananda Chandra Barua (1970)
1980s	Krishan Dutta Bharadwaj (1981) Abid Ali Khan (1981) Ram Punjwani (1981) Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1982) R. V. Pandit (1982) Sher Singh Sher (1982) Gaura Pant Shivani (1982) Ahalya Chari (1983) Amitabha Chaudhuri (1983) Saliha Abid Hussain (1983) Komal Kothari (1983) Hundraj Lial Ram Dukhayal Manik (1983) Raghuvir Sharan Mitra (1983) Attar Singh (1983) Mayangnokcha Ao (1984) Kshem Suman Chandra (1984) Lakshmi Kumari Chundawat (1984) Shanta Gandhi (1984) Sadhu Singh Hamdard (1984) Qurratulain Hyder (1984) Ganpatrao Jadhav (1984) Syed Abdul Malik (1984) John Arthur King Martyn (1984) Sooranad Kunjan Pillai (1984) Syed Hasan Askari (1985) Jamesh Dokhuma (1985) Kaka Hathrasi (1985) Bharat Mishra (1985) Harishankar Parsai (1985) Ashangbam Minaketan Singh (1985) Anil Agarwal (1986) Binod Kanungo (1986) Chitra Naik (1986) Abdur Rahman (1986) Nuchhungi Renthlei (1986) Raghunath Sharma (1986) Abdul Sattar (1987) Nazir Ahmed (1987) Vanaja Iyengar (1987) Khawlkungi (1987) Badri Narayan (1987) Debi Prasanna Pattanayak (1987) Sant Singh Sekhon (1987) N. Khelchandra Singh (1987) Madaram Brahma (1988) Nissim Ezekiel (1988) K. M. George (1988) Mario Miranda (1988) Vidya Niwas Mishra (1988) Ali Jawad Zaidi (1988) Kalim Aajiz (1989) Barsane Lal Chaturvedi (1989) Anita Desai (1989) Moti Lal Saqi (1989) Rongbong Terang (1989) V. Venkatachalam (1989)
1990s	M. Aram (1990) Vijay Kumar Chopra (1990) Behram Contractor (1990) Radha Mohan Gadanayak (1990) Madhav Yeshwant Gadkari (1990) Yashpal Jain (1990) Sharad Joshi (1990) Kanhiyalal Prabhakar Mishra (1990) Gopi Chand Narang (1990) Dagdu Maruti Pawar (1990) Nilmani Phookan Jr (1990) Shyam Singh Shashi (1990) Ram Nath Shastri (1990) Bharat Bhushan (yogi) (1991) Kapil Deva Dvivedi (1991) B. K. S. Iyengar (1991) Satish Chandra Kakati (1991) Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte (1991) Madan Lal Madhu (1991) Namdeo Dhondo Mahanor (1991) Keshav Malik (1991) Surendra Mohanty (1991) P. T. Narasimhachar (1991) V. G. Bhide (1992) Gulabdas Broker (1992) Krishna Chaithanya (1992) Rajammal P. Devadas (1992) Vasant Shankar Kanetkar (1992) V. C. Kulandaiswamy (1992) Ram Sarup Lugani (1992) Shovana Narayan (1992) Nisith Ranjan Ray (1992) M. Kirti Singh (1992) B. K. Thapar (1992) Mark Tully (1992) B. N. Goswamy (1998) O. N. V. Kurup (1998) Lalsangzuali Sailo (1998) Gurdial Singh (1998) Narayan Gangaram Surve (1998) Ruskin Bond (1999) Shayama Chona (1999) G. P. Chopra (1999) Namdeo Dhasal (1999) Kanhaiya Lal Nandan (1999) Satya Vrat Shastri (1999) Rajkumar Jhalajit Singh (1999)
2000s	Grigoriy Lvovitch Bondarevsky (2000) P. S. Chawngthu (2000) Piloo Nowshir Jungalwalla (2000) Mandan Mishra (2000) Rehman Rahi (2000) K. P. Saxena (2000) Nabaneeta Dev Sen (2000) Elangbam Nilakanta Singh (2000) Bala V. Balachandran (2001) Jeelani Bano (2001) Manoj Das (2001) Javare Gowda (2001) Chandrashekhara Kambara (2001) Gnanananda Kavi (2001) Kumar Ketkar (2001) Ravindra Kumar (2001) Kalidas Gupta Riza (2001) Padma Sachdev (2001) Bhabendra Nath Saikia (2001) Vachnesh Tripathi (2001) Munirathna Anandakrishnan (2002) Gopal Chhotray (2002) Gyan Chand Jain (2002) Madhu Mangesh Karnik (2002) Ashok Ramchandra Kelkar (2002) V. K. Madhavan Kutty (2002) Turlapaty Kutumba Rao (2002) Kim Yang-shik (2002) Manzoor Ahtesham (2003) Jagdish Chaturvedi (2003) Motilal Jotwani (2003) Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad (2003) Tekkatte Narayan Shanbhag (2003) Shailendra Nath Shrivastava (2003) Pritam Singh (2003) Vairamuthu (2003) Hamlet Bareh (2004) Kumarpal Desai (2004) Tatyana Elizarenkova (2004) Anil Kumar Gupta (2004) Gowri Ishwaran (2004) Leeladhar Jagudi (2004) Sunita Jain (2004) Prithvi Nath Kaula (2004) Ayyappa Paniker (2004) P. Parameswaran (2004) Bal Samant (2004) Kanhaiyalal Sethia (2004) Ramesh Chandra Shah (2004) Heinrich von Stietencron (2004) Sudhir Tailang (2004) Dalip Kaur Tiwana (2004) Amiya Kumar Bagchi (2005) Shobhana Bhartia (2005) Manas Chaudhuri (2005) Darchhawna (2005) J. S. Grewal (2005) Amin Kamil (2005) Gadul Singh Lama (2005) Mammen Mathew (2005) S. B. Mujumdar (2005) Bilat Paswan Vihangam (2005) Ajeet Cour (2006) Sucheta Dalal (2006) Laltluangliana Khiangte (2006) Lothar Lutze (2006) Mrinal Pande (2006) Sugathakumari (2006) Sitanshu Yashaschandra (2006) Temsüla Ao (2007) Vijaydan Detha (2007) Bakul Harshadrai Dholakia (2007) Amitav Ghosh (2007) Meenakshi Gopinath (2007) Giriraj Kishore (2007) Shekhar Pathak (2007) Pratibha Ray (2007) Rostislav Rybakov (2007) Vikram Seth (2007) Vaali (2007) Sivanthi Adithan (2008) Bina Agarwal (2008) Vellayani Arjunan (2008) Nirupam Bajpai (2008) Surjya Kanta Hazarika (2008) Vinod Dua (2008) M. Leelavathy (2008) Amitabh Mattoo (2008) Bholabhai Patel (2008) Rajdeep Sardesai (2008) Sukhadeo Thorat (2008) Srinibash Udgata (2008) Suresh Gundu Amonkar Abhay Chhajlani Birendra Nath Datta Shashi Deshpande Bannanje Govindacharya Panchapakesa Jayaraman Mathoor Krishnamurty Jayanta Mahapatra Laxman Mane John Ralston Marr Alok Mehta A. Sankara Reddy Lalthangfala Sailo Ngawang Samten Ranbir Chander Sobti Ram Shankar Tripathi
2010s	Lalzuia Colney (2010) Maria Aurora Couto (2010) Romuald D'Souza (2010) Bertha Gyndykes Dkhar (2010) Surendra Dubey (2010) Sadiq-ur-Rahman Kidwai (2010) Hermann Kulke (2010) Ramaranjan Mukherji (2010) Govind Chandra Pande (2010) Mrs YGP (2010) Sheldon Pollock (2010) Arun Sarma (2010) Jitendra Udhampuri (2010) Granville Austin (2011) Mahim Bora (2011) Urvashi Butalia (2011) Pullella Sriramachandrudu (2011) Mamang Dai (2011) Pravin Darji (2011) Chandra Prakash Deval (2011) Deviprasad Dwivedi (2011) Balraj Komal (2011) Krishna Kumar (2011) Rajni Kumar (2011) Devanur Mahadeva (2011) Barun Mazumder (2011) Ritu Menon (2011) Avvai Natarajan (2011) Bhalchandra Nemade (2011) Karl Harrington Potter (2011) Koneru Ramakrishna Rao (2011) Devi Dutt Sharma (2011) Nilamber Dev Sharma (2011) Geeta Dharmarajan (2012) Eberhard Fischer (2012) Kedar Gurung (2012) Surjit Patar (2012) Sachchidanand Sahai (2012) Allan Sealy (2012) Pepita Seth (2012) Vijay Dutt Shridhar (2012) Ralte L. Thanmawia (2012) Anvita Abbi (2013) Nida Fazli (2013) Radhika Herzberger (2013) Noboru Karashima (2013) Salik Lucknawi (2013) J. Malsawma (2013) Devendra Patel (2013) Christopher Pinney (2013) Mohammad Sharaf-e-Alam (2013) Rama Kant Shukla (2013) Jagdish Prasad Singh (2013) Akhtarul Wasey (2013) Naheed Abidi (2014) Ashok Chakradhar (2014) Keki N. Daruwalla (2014) G. N. Devy (2014) Kolakaluri Enoch (2014) Ved Kumari Ghai (2014) Manorama Jafa (2014) Rehana Khatoon (2014) P. Kilemsungla (2014) Sengaku Mayeda (2014) Waikhom Gojen Meitei (2014) Vishnunarayanan Namboothiri (2014) Dinesh Singh (2014) Huang Baosheng (2015) Bettina Baumer (2015) Lakshmi Nandan Bora (2015) Jean-Claude Carrière (2015) Gyan Chaturvedi (2015) Raj Chetty (2015) Bibek Debroy (2015) Ashok Gulati (2015) George L. Hart (2015) Sunil Jogi (2015) Usha Kiran Khan (2015) Narayana Purushothama Mallaya (2015) Lambert Mascarenhas (2015) Taarak Mehta (2015) Ram Bahadur Rai (2015) J. S. Rajput (2015) Bimal Kumar Roy (2015) Annette Schmiedchen (2015) Gunvant Shah (2015) Brahmdev Sharma (2015) Dhirendra Nath Bezbaruah (2016) S. L. Bhyrappa (2016) Kameshwar Brahma (2016) Jawahar Lal Kaul (2016) Sal Khan (2016) Ashok Malik (2016) Haldhar Nag (2016) Pushpesh Pant (2016) Dahyabhai Shastri (2016) Prahlad Chandra Tasa (2016) Anant Agarwal (2017) Eli Ahmed (2017) Michel Danino (2017) Narendra Kohli (2017) Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri (2017) Kashi Nath Pandita (2017) Vishnu Pandya (2017) V. G. Patel (2017) Chamu Krishna Shastry (2017) Bhawana Somaaya (2017) Punam Suri (2017) Harihar Kripalu Tripathi (2017) G. Venkatasubbiah (2017) Prafulla Govinda Baruah (2018) Shyamlal Chaturvedi (2018) Arup Kumar Dutta (2018) Arvind Gupta (2018) Digamber Hansda (2018) Anwar Jalalpuri (2018) Piyong Temjen Jamir (2018) Joyasree Goswami Mahanta (2018) Zaverilal Mehta (2018) Tomio Mizokami (2018) Habibullo Rajabov (2018) Vagish Shastri (2018) Maharao Raghuveer Singh (2018) A Zakia (2018) Narsingh Dev Jamwal (2019) Nagindas Sanghavi (2019) Mohammed Hanif Khan Shastri (2019) Devendra Swarup (2019)
2020s	Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra (2020) Binapani Mohanty (2020) Damayanti Beshra (2020) H. M. Desai (2020) Lil Bahadur Chettri (2020) Meenakshi Jain (2020) N. Chandrasekharan Nair (2020) Narayan Joshi Karayal (2020) Prithwindra Mukherjee (2020) Robert Thurman (2020) S. P. Kothari (2020) Shahabuddin Rathod (2020) Sudharma (2020) Vijayasarathi Sribhashyam (2020) Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi (2020) Yogesh Praveen (2020) Benichandra Jamatia (2020) Carlos G. Vallés (2021) Dadudan Gadhvi (2021) Imran Shah (2021) Mangal Singh Hazowary (2021) Mridula Sinha (2021) Rangasami L. Kashyap (2021) Srikant Datar (2021) Solomon Pappaiah (2021) Asavadi Prakasarao (2021)