Bora, Anil

Anil Bora was a student youth leader and a martyr of the Medium of Instruction Movement in Assam. Born in 1951 in Palashani village near Nagaon, he passed matriculation and higher secondary from Nagaon Govt. H.S. School and enrolled in Nagaon College with Zoology as a major. He was a nationalist and joined the language movement when he was serving as the general secretary of the Students' Union of Nagaon College. He was assassinated by miscreants at Hojai on 7 October 1972 while leading a group of students from Nagaon to Hojai in support of a protest call by the student organization. In his remembrance, Bhupen Hazarika wrote in Amar Pratinidhi magazine: “Martyr Anil Bora was the reddest Palash in Palashani, whose brilliance has added the hue of dawn to the sky of our language, and will continue to do so till the Luit flows...”.