madaram brahma was an indian poet and dramatist, who wrote in the bodo language, a sino-tibetan language spoken by the bodo people. born in a bodo family in 1903 at kokrajhar in dundhunikhata (present day dhubri district) of the northeast indian state of assam, he passed the matriculation from the local government high school in dhubri. his career started as a teacher and by 1932, he became the headmaster of the harisingha high school, darang. in 1945 he joined the local administration, eventually becoming the first person of bodo ethnicity to become a block development officer.