Amranga missing its favourite girl

GUWAHATI: People of Amranga are finding it difficult to imagine a life without Mamoni, the popular girl of the village who loved elephant rides and roaming on the banks of the Jogolia River. The villagers of the small hamlet in south Kamrup are missing their favourite girl for whom the rich-poor divide hardly mattered.
The hauda (furniture fixed on the back of elephant for ride) on which she went out on elephant rides during childhood days is lying idle at her paternal home at Amranga.“She loved rural life. Though spent her childhood days outside the village, she came here during the vacations. She used to pluck bogori (a fruit) from the roof of a two-storey building. Camera was not affordable to all in the village and she brought one with her and took our photographs in village home,” said Mamoni’s aunt Nirmala Goswami.
She added that the writer liked laddoo made of coconut and Mamoni used to ask them to prepare delicious food items before visiting the village. Jayanta Goswami, a cousin of Mamoni, said he will always be pained by the fact that Mamoni could not come to inaugurate her dream hospital.
The state health department is doing its best to convert the primary health centre (PHC) at Amranga (Mamoni's ancestral village) into a 30-bed hospital. Mamoni Roisom Goswami donated the entire sum of money she received with the Prince Claus Award in 2008 in Netherlands to the state government for the development of the health centre at Amranga.
The social injustice meted out to women at Amranga Satra was highlighted in her novel “Otal Hatir Uye Khowa Hauda.” In this acclaimed novel, she depicted the life at Amranga and the adjoining areas.