Baidyanath Upadhyaya, Poet, Journalist and Writer. Received National Non Hindi Hindi Writers Award from Government of India in 2015. Authored two books on verses in Nepali JUNELI (1996), Samayka Dob-haru(2014)and one in Hindi 'Gagan Ke Us Paar' for which he received award. He is the son of Late Hiranya Prasad Upadhyaya and Late Hem Kumari Devi and was born on September 28, 1967. He begins primary education at Habigaon L P School, HSLC from Borigaon High School in 1985, HSSLC from Udalguri H S School in 1987 and graduated in humanities from Udalguri College in 1993. He passed B Ed from Banikanta B Ed College Guwahati in 2013. Later he also graduated in Sanskrit and passed Praveen in Hindi. He also passed PGJMC from IGNOU in 1998. He is the author of JUNELI,(1996), Samayka Dob-haru(2014) poetry books in Nepali, translated Hindi drama BIDROHI in Assamese. He edited variety of souvenirs and also was the editor of The National Voice. He attended the convention of Mahananda Puraskar Samaroh Samiti 1995, at Mechi Campus, Bhadrapur in Nepal as invited poet, Non Hindi Hindi Writers Workshop at Pune in 2003, Bilaspur in 2004, Jaipur in 2005, the National Seminar of Scientific & Technical Terminology Commission, Govt of India at Shillong in 2006 & 2007, Guwahati in 2008, Vardha in 2008, Itanagar in 2008 and Agartala in 2009. He was invited to Kavita Mahotsav-2009 at Guwahati, organised by B.P. Koirala Foundation &  Nepali Sahitya Parishad, Assam, participated in the updation meeting of Nepali Brihat Sabdakosh, in Guwahati in 2012, Nepali-Bodo Translation Workshop, organised by Nepali Sahitya Parishad, Assam & Sahitya Akademy at Guwahati in 2013. He has been working as Sanskrit teacher at Harisinga H S School. He can be contacted at email: baidyanathupadhyaya06@gmail.com