Dhirendra Nath Bezboruah is an Indian journalist, writer and the founder editor of The Sentinel, a Guwahati-based English language daily.
[1] Born in 1933 in the Jorhat district of the northeast Indian state of Assam, he started his career as a lecturer, after completing his post graduate studies at Reading University, UK.
[2] When The Sentinel daily was established in 1983, he was selected as the founder editor, a post he held for a number of years.
[5] He received the B. D. Goenka Award for Journalism in 1997[2] and the Nachiketa Samman of Panchjanya weekly in 2001.
The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2016, for his contributions to literature.