Published on : 24 Sep 2025, 2:30 am

Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI: The adage goes that ‘death is the best leveller’. However, it’s one’s deed that makes all the difference. This is what the people of Assam saw today while bidding a tearful adieu to their soulful cultural icon, Zubeen Garg . Crores of people in the state and the nation shed tears for him today.

Amid 21 gun salutes of the Assam police marking full state honours and the wailing of lakhs of people of the state, the mortal remains of the cultural icon were consigned to flames at Kamarkuchi near Sonapur today. The singer’s sister, Palme Barthakur, accompanied by Rahul Gautam Sarma, Arun Garg, Rituprayag Garg and others, lit the funeral pyre in the presence of Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma and Union ministers Kiren Ri

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