Talk:Mamoni Raisom Goswami

message: 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:- http://indiragoswami.blogspot.com/2008/09/2008-principal-prince-claus-award-to.htmlhttp://www.princeclausfund.org/files/docs/30r364%20boek%20DEF.pdf
'Prabhakar Sarma Neog' (talk) 06:47, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title: Depression

message: Her works often reflected her experience. The jury of Principal Prince Claus Award, which she received in 2008, saidhttp://www.princeclausfund.org/files/docs/30r364%20boek%20DEF.pdf, "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</ref> 
'Prabhakar Sarma Neog' (talk) 08:12, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: 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? Prabhakar Sarma Neog (talk) 16:22, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
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