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Indira Raisom Goswami died on Tuesday morning
November 29, 2011 Visionmp.com news service
NEW DELHI: Seventy year old Indira Raisom Goswami a well known Jnanpith award winning Assamese litterateur died on Tuesday, 7.42 am in the morning.
Goswami, who had authored several novels and short story collection, also took the initiative for a political dialogue to resolve the ULFA issue which has rocked Assam for nearly three decades.
After a prolonged illness she died in Guwahati, she was in hospital for the last six months.
She took the initiative of persuading the banned ULFA to come forward for dialogue with the outfit even setting up the Peoples’ Consultative Group (PCG) in 2003 and appointing her as an advisor.
Goswami’s efforts may not have yielded immediate results but it definitely paved the way for the ongoing talks process between a group of ULFA leaders and the government.
Popularly called ‘Mamoni Baideu’, Goswami was born on November 14, 1942 in a traditional Vaishnavite family who owned a satra (monastery) at Amranga in South Kamrup.
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