The most crucial point in her life came when Dr. Bhupen Hazarika visited Gauripur in 1955 and attended a jalsa organised on a social occasion, the shy young Pratima, though tongue-tied with fear, let her voice and the lyrics of the lokageet in Goalpariya dialect flow in tune with the strings and rhythms of the dhol, junuka, dotora, darinda, dhuluki and Bashi which are musical instruments in Goalpariya culture.
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Barua Pandey, a national awardee, best known for her immortal Goalpariya songs Hastir Kanya and Mur Mahut Bandhure, was the daughter of Prakritish Chandra Barua (Lalji) and niece of filmmaker Pramathesh Barua
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Pratima Barua Pandey (Assamese: প্ৰতিমা বৰুৱা পাণ্ডে) (Bengali: প্ৰতিমা বড়ুয়া পাণ্ডে) (3 October 1935 – 27 December 2002) was a popular folk singer from the royal family of Gauripur in Western Assam's Dhubri district.
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She mostly spent her early years in between the din of Calcutta and the soothing environments of riverside "Gadadhar" at Gauripur.
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