If the town of Sibsagar is better known for Sahitya Rathi Lakshminath Bezbaruah, Tezpur is well known for Sahitya Kandari Padmanath Gohai Baruah, the founder president of the Axam Xahitya Xabha,.
Ruchi Ram Sahni was a social reformer and scientist
Despite being a prominent social reformer, scientist, teacher, politician, public intellectual and leading educationist of colonial Punjab, Ruchi Ram Sahni has not been given his due place in the social and academic circles of India and Pakistan. He had worked with renowned physicists Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr but his scientific and educational legacy was largely forgotten till the start of the 21
st Century.
th anniversary in 2013 and digitised all available volumes of his manuscript:
History of My Own Times, and the government of India honoured his legacy with a postal stamp issued during the commemorative event.