Award winning litterateur Mamoni Raisom Goswami passed away on Tuesday. The end for the Jnyanpith award winner came at around 7-30 in the morning at the Guwahati Medical College Hospital where she was undergoing treatment for the last several months.
The Assamese editor, poet, professor, scholar and writer was born in 1942 in Shillong. She was a celebrated name in the Assamese literary world.
She is the second Assamese recipient of the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary award in the year 2000.
Dr Goswami received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1982, the Jnanpith Award in 2000 and is the country’s first Principal Prince Claus Laureate in 2008.
A few years back, she played the role of a peace negotiator in the ULFA-government peace talk. Later, ULFA elected her as the PCG member. Thousands of her fans rushed to the GMCH as soon as the sad news was spearing like wildfire.
PermalinkSubmitted by Dilip Kumar Das on Tue, 29/11/2011 - 15:23
A great loss to the literery world and a huge setback to the assamese culture. November 2011 has taken away from us two most distinguished and illustrious persons. It is almost impossible to fill up the void created on account of the sad demise of Dr. Bhupen Hazarika and Mamoni Raisom Goswami. May the almighty God grant eternal peace to the departed souls.
PermalinkSubmitted by Sekav on Wed, 30/11/2011 - 04:19
Our tribute to the great Assamese litterateur. She will always be remembered for her excellent contribution to the Assamese Literature and efforts brought forward to bring around social change.
There seems to be no let up on the floor for the four consecutive day on Friday. The situation took a grim turn when speaker Tanka Bahadur Rai suspended Dibrugarh MLA Prasanta Phukan till Monday for beating cymbal on the floor at the height of protest against failure to sack the ministers involved in the Dima Hasao scam.
Phukan said that the speaker has done all these only to appease his party. But in the same breath he pledged to go to any extent for the interest of the people.AGP president Chandra Mohan Patowary and opposition leader Prafulla kumar Mahanta called the suspension a partial.
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are set to begin in the second week of March. But the date is yet to be fixed. The Centre is waiting for ULFA's announcement on February 5.
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The election commission is reviewing preparations for the upcoming assembly polls even as the state's political parties want it before the Rongali bihu.
A full bench of the country's poll panel is on a 2days visit to Assam to take stock of the situation in view of the polls.
Led by chief election commissioner Dr YS Qureshi, the full delegation is holding seperate meeting with deputy commissioners and police heads to take stock of the situation.
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