Samudra Kajal Saikia is an Assamese poet, writer of cultural criticism and an artist working in multidisciplinary paradigms. His artistic engagement associates with theatre and performances, public art projects, book illustration, video and animation. After completing BFA from Vishwabharati, Shantiniketan and MVA from M S University of Baroda (in Art History and Aesthetics), he is now working as the founder – creative director of Kathputlee Arts & Films, New Delhi. Samudra was the recipient of FICA (Foundation of Indian Contemporary Arts) Public Art Grant, 2010. He is a practitioner of a distinctive theatre practice that is coined as the Disposable Theatre.
As a poet Samudra Kajal Saikia has been introducing himself in Assamese periodicals and News Papers for more than two decades. “Hoon” and “Kankhowar Ghar” are two collections of Assamese poems published in 2009 and 2010 respectively from Guwahati. Earlier a book of Bengali poems was published from Kolkata, “Tabuo”. Many of his poems have been adapted as performance texts and worked as thematic incentives for other mediumistic practices.
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