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Nalini Prava Deka (11 March 1944 – 15 June 2014) was a prominent Assamese lady author, poet, storyteller, essayist, actress and radio playwright from Assam, a state encompassing the Brahmaputra valley in India. She had been honoured as a leading writer from Assam at the biggest literary gathering held at Ledo in 2012 under the banner of Assam Sahitya Sabha in presence of top litterateurs from several countries including various states in India as well as ministers of India government and several state governments. 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. ==Flag-bearer of traditional Assamese lifestyle== A seasoned poet, she also inculcated the legacy of Assamese traditional culture and heritage to her children. She set an example herself by setting up Assamese traditional handloom unit called ''Taat-Xaal'' at her city residence campuses in New Delhi and Guwahati city in India in order to produce Assamese hand-woven fabrics and garments at home, and wear them on everyday life as well as during festivities and public functions. Through this significant step, she brought out the rich tradition of Assamese rural life from the confines of the villages to prominence and facilitated their major exposure at national and international arena. She made it a mission in her entire life to assert her Assamese identity by always wearing her own traditional hand-woven Assamese fabrics like ''Mekhela-Chador''. She had also woven traditional Assamese male garments like ''Suriyaa-Saapkon'' for her husband, and made him to wear them on all occasions, so that these traditional Assamese garments could garner importance and respect at all social forums nationally and internationally.〔〔〔 She also set up a crop-grinding tool called ''Dheki'' at her city home campus, which she used as a domestic tool of everyday use for producing her family’s own food from organic herbal sources. Raw paddy was brought from the paddy-fields including rice, wheat, lentils etc. and those were grinded in her ''Dheki'' to produce varieties of traditional Assamese food and snacks like ''Chaul'', ''Chira'', ''Aakhoi'' and ''Sandoh''. Thus, she emulated a self-reliant life, and showed that it was possible in a city dwelling as well in a modern ambiance.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nalini Prava Deka」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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