FAMILY

A BRIEF SKETCH OF ASU DEV’S FAMILY

MOTHER: KADAMBINI DEVI

 

FATHER: UMESH CHANDRA DEB

Retired as ’Revenue Srestadar’, Office of the Deputy Commissioner Kamrup District Guwahati, Assam India
 SIBLINGS: Five brothers and five sisters. Asu Dev was the third son of Umesh Chandra Deb.
 
 Umesh Chandra Deb, was a research scholar on Srimanta Sankaradeva, the great saint of Assam. A biography on Sankaradeva was written by Umesh Chandra Deb in the Bangla script was first published in the Bengali Year 1327 (1920) by the author.
  

 ANCESTRAL HOUSE:

30, Md. Shah Road, Newfield (West) Guwahati 781 008 Assam India

(Now not in the possession of the family)
 

WIFE: BELA (PALIT) DEB

EDUCATION: Certificate course in Design and Crafts from Kala Bhavana, Visvabharati Santiniketan India and Certificate course in Rabindra sangeet from Sangeet Bhavana, Visvabharati Santiniketan India. She retired as Junior Instructor in Textile Design and Crafts at the Assam Textile Institute, Guwahati Assam India. She expired on 01 MAY 1994.

IMAGES FROM SANTINIKETAN :

BELA (PALIT) DEB AND HER CLASSMATES WITH NANDALAL BOSE IN KALABHAVANA, SANTINIKETAN

BELA (PALIT) DEB AND HER CLASSMATES WITH NANDALAL BOSE IN KALA BHAVANA, SANTINIKETAN

RAM KINKAR BAIJ TEACHING BELA (PALIT) DEB AT KALA BHAVANA, SANTINIKETAN

BELA (PALIT) DEB AND HER CLASSMATES IN KALABHAVAN, SANTINIKETAN

SON: ANUTOSH DEB 

  • 1989 Bachelor in Fine Arts (Applied Art) from Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat,India.
  • Worked as an Art Educator with Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (An autonomous body under the Ministry of Education, Government of India), retired from PM SHRI Kendriya Vidyalaya Khanapara, Guwahati in January 2024.
  • Managing trustee, ASUDEV ART FOUNDATION.

 DAUGHTER IN LAW: TULIREKHA DEB  

  • 1991 Bachelors degree in Fine Arts (Painting) KalaBhavana,Visvabharati Santiniketan.
  • She presently works as an Art Educator in Royal Global School, in Guwahati, Assam India.
  • Trustee, ASUDEV ART FOUNDATION.

 

GRAND DAUGHTER: ANUREKHA DEB

  • 2017 Bachelor in Fine Arts  (Painting) M.S.University of Baroda,
  • 2019 Master of Fine Arts (Painting) Shiv Nadar University.
  • 2024 Post Graduate Residential course in Acting and Devising, Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts from Drama School Mumbai. Has a keen interest in Fine Arts, Performing Arts, Music, creative writting and ICT…
  • Trustee, ASUDEV ART FOUNDATION.   As on March 2025

    THE ‘BIG DEB FAMILY PICTURE’ probably sometime during 1967-68