Jiten Bezboruah

In this article "Zubeen and Dharma," author Jiten Bezboruah explores the profound sacralization and deification of the iconic artist Zubeen Garg within the Assamese collective consciousness following his death. Despite Zubeen’s lifelong irreligion, Bezboruah frames the public's overwhelming grief as a deeply transformative "post-secular" and "paramodern" phenomenon where society projected its own existential anxieties and cultural ambitions onto his persona. Ultimately, the text positions this event as a powerful moment of cultural re-enchantment—the birth of a "national sacred"—that reclaimed Zubeen's legacy from the capitalist market to revitalize an inclusive Assamese nationalism.