Guwahati: Sadhana Griha or Workplace Lakshminath Bezbaroa, Doyen Literature Assamese, who is in the ruins on the edge of Mahanadi in Sambalpur in Odisha, has been renovated and restored will be thrown into people soon.
The poet has two houses in Sambalpur, one for writing and business, and others to stay.
Renovation and recovery of housing houses will begin in October.
Bringing Sadhana Griha back to its original status is a big challenge for Intach, Heritage Conservation Trust, which is entrusted with the restoration work by the Government of Odisha and Assam.
Only remaining remains of the original structure.
Conservationists must return to history, consult with books to recreate the house.
Mallika Mitra, Director of Intach’s conservation Institute, Bhubaneswar, who oversaw restoration work, to TI on Saturday that the first house will be handed over to the government in the next three weeks.
“We have used lime plaster with traditional plaster material for walls.
Only one old window is intact and we use it as a reference to reconstruct another window.
Our efforts are to support the roof with iron but will layered with compatible materials such as synthetic straw or tile Terracotta to fit the original structure, “he said.
Sadhana Griha has three rooms with a central hall.
Partners say the rooms have been designed as three galleries dedicated to their lives, literary and family creations.
“Other houses will have more space for audio-visual displays and reading rooms along with other facilities,” said partner, adding that they wanted to highlight his family’s connection with Rabindranath Tagore.
Bezbaroa married Pragya Sundari Devi, Tagore’s nephew.
Other houses, where family lives, is spacious and will display cultural exchanges between the two states, he added.
After a long legal battle between the owner of the plot of ‘inheritance’ and the Odisha government, the latter received land ownership in 2017.
Invaluable, full of memories of a great poet novelist, who has led Assam Renaissance, lay unwittingly for decades.
That’s when the former Minister of Assam, Sarbanou Sonowal, and Naveen Patnaik, his Odisha colleague, came together to preserve this treasure.
Sambalpur Resident Deepak Panda, a writer and historian, took Cudgel on behalf of the two countries to preserve houses.
When he was small in 1968, he learned about poets at a convention organized by Sahitya Sabha acid in Sambalpur.
“People initially opposed my decision to find the preservation of the place and even led the demonstration,” he said.
Single panda alone conducted a campaign from 2007 for restoration.
“Renaissance at Assam was escorted through Jonaki by Bezbaroa.
The trend continued until 1942, even after he died in 1938,” he added.