Talk:Mamoni Raisom Goswami

Depression
I'd like to hear your (and other wikipedian's) opinion about the way to present Mamoni's depression.

We need to reach a consensus about her "depression". So I wanted to make sure to go through this topic by gathering whatever information information so that I can present here for discussion.

I feel that it is not right to put so much importance on this topic so as to highlight it. My reasons are as follows:


 * Be sensitive: Mental disease is a taboo in our society, we all know it. Again, woman is the most spicy topic of discussion. So, is it civil to put these two topics together? I remember, seeing a video of Dr Bhupen Hazarika in hospital without his cap, Bishnu Saikia and many others objected that we should not present the maestro without it exposing beld head, it is inappropriate.


 * Be sensible: Depression is a disease. A disease needs a doctor to diagnose. Do we have a doctor's opinion about it chronicled somewhere? One might argue, that "she herself wrote it", "people close to he wrote it", "if Mr X, who said it, will not tell a lie or mistaken" etc. My counter: do we recognize a person having cancer just by his looks? No. Does the person himself recognize it because it is his body? No. Again, in most narratives I saw on 'net, are not using the word "depression". So what we have here to prove it? In fact, most probably there will be people who would rather think otherwise. See the next point.


 * Be reasonable: Mamoni Raisom is a world class writer, as Bhupen Hazarika was in his domain. Fame, has its curses too. We are human beings. Some of us, consciously or subconsciously, envy people overtaking us, more so when he/she is our competitor. Further, some of those people will go to any length to demean the person. And character assassination is the cheapest and easiest of them.


 * Preserve Dignity: It is not appropriate to discuss a differently able person's disabilities. De we talk about Stefan Hawkings's disability or we talk about his great work? [Quiz: How much do you know about the world's best scientist's personnel life?]

So here I conclude: '''Let us not reach conclusions about a person's personal traits unless we have concrete, documentary or consensual evidence, especially so when it never harmed anybody. We should present it the following way, as the Prince Claus Award jury judged:-'''

Indira Goswami, in the judgement of the Prince Claus Award jury, is an outstanding writer who reveals the lived experience of ordinary people. Through powerful graphic descriptions and haunting images she shows how central the body is in human affairs, how political, religious and cultural systems are codified through the body; and how life process, gender, age, poverty and conflict are defined physically. A woman of remarkable insight and conviction, Indira Goswami (Mamoni Roisom Goswami as she is popularly known) is honoured for the unique quality of her writing, for identifying and expressing the inscription of cultural norms in the body, and for her influential social and cultural activism through literature.

&#39;&#39;&#39;&#39;Prabhakar Sarma Neog&#39;&#39;&#39;&#39; (talk) 06:47, 1 December 2011 (UTC)


 * If Indira Goswami's depression had an impact on her writing, or if she used writing to overcome her depressed state, it should find a mention. But even if her depression was clinically diagnosed, it does not deserve a sub-heading all by itself until and unless it was all pervasive and it somehow a theme in her life (like van Gogh, for instance), which I don't think is the case.  Nevertheless, "I am depressed" is not the same as "I have depression which was clinically diagnosed and I am undergoing treatment for it".  We should be accurate in the portrayal of the situation.  Many artists do undergo a period of suffering, which in certain ways make them better artists.  We should not portray that as something else. Chaipau (talk) 15:40, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Revision
This is how the so called "depression" part should be presented more logically. I propose that I may be allowed to edit the corresponding part of the article and insert the following:

==Life==

====Early life and Education==== Indira Goswami was born in Guwahati in 1942 to Umakanta Goswami and Ambika Devi. She did her schooling in Latashil Primary School, Guwahati; Pine Mount School, Shillong (then capital of Assam); and Tarini Charan Girls' School, Guwahati. She completed IA from Guwahati Handique Girls' College, graduated from Cotton College, Guwahati with Assamese language as major subject in 1960, and completed her post graduation from Gauhati University in 1963.

====Death of Husband and its Influence==== After post graduation, Indira Goswami married Madhaban Raisom Ayenger, an engineer from South India in 1966 and moved to Kashmir, his work site. However, their conjugal life ended when Madhaban died in a road accident after 18 months of their marriage. This incident, would influence her life and works, as evident from her autobiography, An unfinished Autobiography.

Devastated, Indira Goswami returned to her parents' home which was situated in a Sattra, where she had spent her childhood. In her autobiography, An unfinished Autobiography, she writes that she contemplated suicide in frustration sitting in her small room. She had nothing to console her except her memories of childhood and her father's letters. . Eventually, motivated by her teacher Upendra Nath Lekharu, she moved to Vrindavan. The stark conditions of the high-caste Hindu widows at Bhagwan Bhajan Ashram, became the theme of her first major novel, "Nilakanthi Braja" or "Shadow of the Dark God"..

She began studying the Ramayana at Vrindavan, which became the topic of her later doctoral work (PhD, Gauhati University, 1973) comparing Tulsidas's 16th century Awadhi version and Madhava Kandali's 13th century Assamese version of the Ramayana.

She joined Delhi University and later retired as a Professor and Head of Department of Study of Modern Indian Language and Literature.

Legacy
Her works often reflected her experience. The jury of Principal Prince Claus Award, which she received in 2008, said, "Indira Goswami is an outstanding writer who reveals the lived experience of ordinary people. Through powerful graphic descriptions and haunting images she shows how central the body is in human affairs, how political, religious and cultural systems are codified through the body; and how life process, gender, age, poverty and conflict are defined physically. A woman of remarkable insight and conviction, Indira Goswami (Mamoni Roisom Goswami as she is popularly known) is honoured for the unique quality of her writing, for identifying and expressing the inscription of cultural norms in the body, and for her influential social and cultural activism through literature." Indira Goswami, Retrieved 1/12/2011

&#39;&#39;&#39;&#39;Prabhakar Sarma Neog&#39;&#39;&#39;&#39; (talk) 08:12, 4 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I made some edits above. Need info on when she joined Delhi University, and when she retired. Also, this should be merged gracefully with what already exists. Chaipau (talk) 11:59, 4 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I am facing one problem: I don't have access to a good library with Assamese books, so I am having to rely on 'net links, which have a habit of vanishing. So although I tried to provide more than one citation from independent sources, but if its a 'net link, I feel that we should cite from some from book, or research paper. I believe we should try to provide a watertight case, with reliable or notable sources. Further, we are yet to see come contention to the above proposal. So, question arises, should we go ex parte? &#39;&#39;Prabhakar Sarma Neog&#39;&#39; (talk) 16:22, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

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