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Nirode Chaudhury (28 April 1935 - 10 February 2001) was a journalist, poet, writer and novelist from Assam, widely known for his story Chameli Memsaab which was later made into a successful national award winning film with the same name that saw Dr. Bhupen Hazarika bag the Best Music Director’s award. Abdul Majid was the director of the film. A prolific writer, whose foray into the creative world began when he was a college student, he continued with it in the same zeal with which he started till his last moment. Though Nirode Choudhury had himself lost the count of the number of stories which flowed out of his pen, his 28 novels and 15 collections of short stories are ample testimony of his creative prowess. It’s unfortunate that many of his stories got lost in the pages of journals, weeklies and magazines which he failed to compile. As an investigative journalist he scaled new heights. A lot of brutal murder cases, conviction of criminals are now occurring with monotonous regularity. But very few journalists have been able to project them in the true light. The investigative reporting of Nirode Choudhury in the sensational murder cases committed by Upen Rajkhowa at Dhubri in the early 1970s took the readers by storm. The report, which appeared in the form of a series in AsamBani, became so popular that the readers had to book their copies in advance. It also reflected on the circulation of AsamBani, which went up.