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{{Infobox writer 
| name = Indira Goswami
| image = Mamoni Raisom Goswami (cropped).JPG
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| pseudonym = Mamoni Raisom Goswami
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1942|11|14}}
| birth_place = [[Guwahati]], [[Assam Province|Assam]], [[British India]]
| death_date ={{death date and age|df=yes|2011|11|29|1942|11|14}}<ref name="toi">{{cite news | url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-11-29/india/30453940_1_jnanpith-award-indira-goswami-litterateur | archive-url=https://archive.today/20121208220828/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-11-29/india/30453940_1_jnanpith-award-indira-goswami-litterateur | url-status=dead | archive-date=8 December 2012 | title=Jnanpith award winning Assamese litterateur Indira Goswami dies | access-date=29 November 2011 | work=[[The Times of India]] | date=29 November 2011}}</ref>
| death_place= [[Guwahati]], [[Assam]], [[India]]<ref name="toa">{{cite web | url=http://www.timesofassam.com/headlines/mamoni-roisom-goswami-passes-away/ | title=Mamoni Raisom Goswami passes away | publisher=Times of Assam | access-date=29 November 2011| date=29 November 2011 }}</ref>
| occupation = Activist, editor, poet, professor and writer
| nationality = Indian
| period = 1956–2011
| genre = [[Assamese literature]]
| subject = Plight of the dispossessed in [[India]] and abroad
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| notableworks = -''[[The Moth Eaten Howdah of the Tusker]]''<br/> -''[[The Man from Chinnamasta]]''<br/>-''[[Pages Stained With Blood]]''
| spouse = Madhaven Raisom Ayengar (died)
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'''Indira Goswami''' (14 November 1942 – 29 November 2011), known by her pen name '''Mamoni Raisom Goswami''' and popularly as '''Mamoni Baideo''', was an Indian writer, poet, professor, scholar and editor.

She was the winner of the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] (1983),<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sHklK65TKQ0C&pg=PA373|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160510101449/https://books.google.com/books?id=sHklK65TKQ0C&pg=PA373|url-status=dead|title=History of Indian Literature|first=Sisir Kumar|last=Das|date=16 October 2005|archive-date=10 May 2016|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn = 9788172010065|via=Google Books}}</ref> the [[Jnanpith Award]] (2000)<ref>[http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/2002/02/25/stories/2002022501991300.htm Jnanpith Award Presented, ''The Hindu'', 25 February 2002] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107160219/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/2002/02/25/stories/2002022501991300.htm |date=7 November 2012 }}.</ref> and [[Prince Claus Awards|Principal Prince Claus Laureate]] (2008).<ref>{{Cite news|title=Principal Prince Claus Award for Indira Goswami |newspaper=Assam Times |date=11 December 2008 |url=http://www.assamtimes.org/hot-news/2432.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727022448/http://www.assamtimes.org/hot-news/2432.html |archive-date=27 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Chaudhuri">{{Cite book|author=Chaudhuri, Supriya |year=2008 |chapter=Indira Goswami: Writer, Woman, Activist |title=2008 Prince Claus Awards |location=Amsterdam |publisher=Prince Claus Fund |pages=30–43 |isbn=978-90-76162-14-0 |access-date=25 December 2016 |chapter-url=http://www.princeclausfund.org/files/docs/30r364%20boek%20DEF.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504042346/http://www.princeclausfund.org/files/docs/30r364%20boek%20DEF.pdf |archive-date=4 May 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> A celebrated writer of contemporary [[Indian literature]], many of her works have been translated into English from her native [[Assamese language|Assamese]] which include ''[[The Moth Eaten Howdah of the Tusker]]'', ''[[Pages Stained With Blood]]'' and ''[[The Man from Chinnamasta]]''.

She was also well known for her attempts to structure [[social change]], both through her writings and through her role as mediator between the armed militant group [[United Liberation Front of Asom]] and the [[Government of India]]. Her involvement led to the formation of the [[People's Consultative Group]], a peace committee. She referred to herself as an "observer" of the peace process rather than as a mediator or initiator.

Her work has been performed on stage and in film. The film ''[[Adajya]]'' is based on her novel won international awards. ''Words from the Mist'' is a film made on her life directed by [[Jahnu Barua]].
[[File:Mukti chairman Mr. Subodh Talukder,Noted writer ganpith DR. Mamoni Raiysom Goswami and Mukti Chife Patron Nandiram Thakuria innaguration a 2nd India Saraswati temple at guwahati(Bijoy Nagar).jpg|thumb|270px|Goswami in inauguration ceremony of a 2nd India Saraswati temple at Bijoy Nagar, Guwahati]]

==Early life and education==
Indira Goswami was born in [[Guwahati]] to Umakanta Goswami and Ambika Devi, a family that was deeply associated with [[Sattra]] life of the [[Ekasarana Dharma]]. She studied at Latashil Primary School, Guwahati; Pine Mount School, Shillong; and [[Tarini Choudhury Govt. Girls H.S. & M.P. School|Tarini Chaudhury Girls' School]], Guwahati and completed Intermediate Arts from [[Handique Girls College]], Guwahati.<ref name="UnASchool">{{Cite book|author=Goswami, Mamoni Raisom |year=1990 |title=The Unfinished Autobiography |location=New Delhi|publisher=Sterling Publishers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8h11op35ucQC&q=Tarini+Choudhury+girls+school&pg=PA201 |isbn=978-81-207-1173-0}}</ref> She majored in [[Assamese literature]] at [[Cotton College, Guwahati|Cotton College]] in [[Guwahati]] and secured a master's degree from [[Gauhati University]] in the same field of study. Indira goswami impressed by [[Akka Mahadevi]]'s [[Kannada]] vachanas as she said in [[Bengaluru]].

==Career==
In 1962, she published her first collection of short stories, "Chinaki Morom", when she was a student.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.india-north-east.com/2011/11/dr-mamoni-raisom-goswami.html |title=Dr. Mamoni Raisom Goswami |publisher=India-north-east.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826170345/http://www.india-north-east.com/2011/11/dr-mamoni-raisom-goswami.html |archive-date=26 August 2014 }}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|reason=appears to be a blog|date=October 2015}}

Popularly known as '''Mamoni Baideo''' in Assam,<ref>{{Cite news|author=Pisharoty, Sangeeta Barooah |title=Adieu baideo… |date=9 December 2011 |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/adieu-baideo/article2699559.ece}}</ref> she was encouraged by editor Kirti Nath Hazarika who published her first short stories — when she was still in Class VIII (thirteen years old) — in the literary journal he edited.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.assaminfo.com/famous-people/36/dr-mamoni-raisom-goswami.htm|title=Mamoni Raisom Goswami {{!}} Dr Mamoni Raisom Goswami {{!}} Indira Raisom Goswami {{!}} Indira Goswami|website=www.assaminfo.com|access-date=25 May 2019}}</ref>

===Depression===
Goswami has suffered from depression since her childhood.<ref name="UnA">{{Cite book|author=Goswami, Mamoni Raisom |year=1990 |title=The Unfinished Autobiography |location=New Delhi|publisher=Sterling Publishers |isbn=978-81-207-1173-0}}</ref><ref name="dawn.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/2010/10/03/books-authors-up-up-and-away/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120723145947/http://dawn.com/2010/10/03/books-authors-up-up-and-away/|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 July 2012|title=BOOKS & AUTHORS: Up, up and away|first=From|last=InpaperMagazine|date=3 October 2010|website=DAWN.COM}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|author=Khan, Shehar Bano |title=Dr Indira Goswami: Assam's fiery pen |url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/soc.culture.pakistan/3_ky7IDKZMI}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|reason=appears to be a blog, can this review be sourced elsewhere from an [[WP:RS]]?|date=October 2015}} In the opening pages of her autobiography, ''The Unfinished Autobiography'',<ref name="UnA" /> she mentions her inclination to jump into Crinoline Falls located near their house in Shillong.<ref>''Adha Lekha Dastabej'', 1983, Students' Stores, Guwahati</ref> Repeated suicide attempts marred her youth. After the sudden death of her husband, '''Madhaven Raisom Ayengar''' of [[Karnataka]], in a car accident in the [[Kashmir]] region of India, after only eighteen months of marriage, she became addicted to heavy doses of [[Hypnotic|sleeping tablets]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://indiragoswami.blogspot.com/2008/10/indira-goswami-and-womens-empowerment.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227195048/http://indiragoswami.blogspot.com/2008/10/indira-goswami-and-womens-empowerment.html|url-status=dead|title=Indira Goswami|archive-date=27 February 2012}}</ref><ref>[http://www.asianviews.net/resource.htm Confessions : Indira Goswami] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150223221855/http://www.asianviews.net/resource.htm |date=23 February 2015 }}</ref> Once brought back to Assam, she joined the [[Sainik School, Goalpara]] as a teacher.

At this point she went back to writing. She claims that she wrote just to live and that otherwise it would not have been possible for her to go on living. Her experiences in Kashmir and [[Madhya Pradesh]], [[States and territories of India|Indian states]] where her husband had worked as an engineer, were used in her novels ''Ahiron'' and ''The Chehnab's Current'', respectively.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://onlinesivasagar.com/literature/mamoni-raisom-goswami.php|title=The Days of Mamoni Raisom Goswami|website=onlinesivasagar.com|access-date=25 May 2019}}</ref>

===Life in Vrindavan===
After working at the [[Sainik School]] in [[Goalpara]], Assam, she was persuaded by her teacher Upendra Chandra Lekharu to come to [[Vrindavan]], Uttar Pradesh, and pursue research for peace of mind.

Her experiences as a widow as well as a researcher finds expression in her novel ''The Blue Necked Braja'' (1976), which is about the plight of the [[Radha Soami|Radhaswamis]] of Vrindavan who lived in abject poverty and sexual exploitation in everyday life. One of the main issues that the novel touches upon is the plight of young widows for whom companionship beyond the confines of their [[ashram]]s and fellow widows become impossible. Their urge to live, as well as the moral dilemma that they face ''vis-a-vis'' the order of precepts of religion in this regard, are brought out with astonishing clarity and feeling in the novel. The novel exposed the uglier face of Vrindavan – the city of [[Krishna]], a [[Hindu]] [[deity]] – inviting criticism of Goswami from conservative sections of the society.<ref name="dawn.com"/> It remains a classic in modern [[Indian literature]]. It is autobiographical in character as she says the anguish of the main character Saudamini, reflects what she had gone through after her husband had died.<ref name="dawn.com"/> It was also the first novel to be written on this subject.{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}} The novel was based on Goswami's research on the place as well as real-life experience of living in the place for several years before she joined the [[University of Delhi]] as a lecturer.

In Vrindavan she was involved in [[Ramayana]] studies. A massive volume of [[Tulsidas]]'s ''[[Ramayana]]'' purchased during her stay there for just eleven [[rupee]]s was a great source of inspiration in her research. This finds expression in her book [[Ramayana from Ganga to Brahmaputra]], an unparalleled comparative study of Tulsidas's ''Ramayana'' and the fourteenth-century [[Saptakanda Ramayana|Assamese Ramayana]]<ref>the first Ramayana to be written in any [[Linguistic history of India|modern Indian language]]</ref> written by [[Madhava Kandali]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.assamportal.com/dr-mamoni-raisom-goswami/|title=Dr Mamoni Raisom Goswami|date=9 January 2013|website=Assam Online Portal|language=en-US|access-date=25 May 2019}}</ref>

===Life at the University of Delhi===
Goswami relocated to [[Delhi]], India, to become Professor of Assamese in the Modern Indian Languages & Literary Studies (MIL) Department at the University of Delhi under the guidance of her lifelong mentor Prof. [[Bhabananda Deka]], who was subservient in the introduction of Assamese Language in MIL Department of Delhi University (DU).<ref>[http://www.assamportal.com/2013/01/Mamoni-Raisom-Goswami-Biography-Works-Awards.html Dr Mamoni Raisom Goswami] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131024084914/http://www.assamportal.com/2013/01/Mamoni-Raisom-Goswami-Biography-Works-Awards.html |date=24 October 2013 }}, ''Assamportal.com''</ref> While at the university, she wrote most of her greatest works. Several short stories, including ''Hridoy'', ''Nangoth Sohor'', ''Borofor Rani'', used Delhi as the background.

During later part of her life, after she became Head of the MIL Department in Delhi University, she, in collaboration with award-winning Assamese popular short-story writer and novelist Arnab Jan Deka made efforts and persuaded Delhi University to set up a Chair in the name of Middle Age Assamese saint-philosopher-littérateur-artist Srimanta Sankardev. They also convinced the Chief Minister of Assam to make a contribution of Rupees One Million to Delhi University to create the corpus for the proposed Chair. However, Dr Goswami could not see the fruits of her effort during her lifetime.<ref name="The Times of India">{{cite news|last1=India|first1=The Times of|title=Writer's dream to set up Sankardeva chair in DU remains unfulfilled|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/Writers-dream-to-set-up-Sankardeva-chair-in-DU-remains-unfulfilled/articleshow/10928115.cms|access-date=2 January 2015|date=30 November 2011}}</ref>

Her two classics – ''Pages Stained With Blood'' and ''The Moth Eaten Howdah of a Tusker''— were also written during this period. The other books completed while she lived in Delhi were ''[[Ahiron]]'', ''[[The Rusted Sword]]'', ''[[Uday Bhanu]]'', ''[[Dasharathi's Steps]]'' and ''The Man from Chinnamasta''.

In ''Pages Stained With Blood'' she writes about the plight of [[Sikh]]s in the [[1984 anti-Sikh riots]] following the [[Indira Gandhi assassination|assassination of Indira Gandhi]], the [[Prime Minister of India]]. Goswami had witnessed the riots while staying in the [[Shakti Nagar]] area of Delhi. She visited many of the other sites to complete this novel. She even went to [[G. B. Road]], Delihi's [[red-light district]], to depict the lives of the prostitutes who lived there which forms a part of her novel.

In ''The Moth Eaten Howdah of a Tusker'' she writes about the plight of Assamese Brahmin widows in [[Satra (Assam)|Satra]], religious institutions of Assam. This novel was [[anthology|anthologised]] in ''[[The Masterpieces of Indian Literature]]'' and was made into a film, ''Adajya'', which won several national and international [[film festival|film-festival]] awards. The novel was also made into two television [[miniseries|mini-series]]; [[Nandita Das]] played the role of Giribala in one of the mini-series.

At the peak of her literary career she wrote the controversial novel ''The Man from Chinnamasta'', a critique of the thousand-years-old tradition of [[animal sacrifice]] in the famous Hindu [[Shakti]] temple to [[Kamakhya]], a [[mother goddess]], in Assam.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/archive/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105133757/http://www.hindu.com/lr/2007/04/01/stories/2007040100120300.htm|url-status=dead|title=Archive News|archive-date=5 November 2012|website=The Hindu}}</ref> Goswami reported that there was even threat to her life{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}} after writing the novel. In this novel she quotes [[scripture]]s to authenticate the argument she puts forward in the novel – to worship the Mother Goddess with flowers rather than blood. She said in an interview, "When the novel was serialized in a popular magazine, I was threatened with dire consequences. Shortly after this, a local newspaper, ''[[Sadin (newspaper)|Sadin]]'', carried an appeal about animal sacrifice, which resulted in quite an uproar—the editor was [[gherao]]ed and a [[Tantra|tantrik]] warned me. But when the appeal was published, the response was overwhelmingly in favour of banning animal sacrifice. I also had to contend with rejection from a publisher who was initially keen and had promised me a huge [[Advance payment|advance]], but who later backtracked, offering instead to publish any other book of mine. But the rest, as they say, is history and ''Chinnamastar Manuhto'' went on to become a runaway bestseller!"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kathamedia.blogspot.com/2006/11/man-from-chinnamasta-comes-to-chennai.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303202323/http://kathamedia.blogspot.com/2006/11/man-from-chinnamasta-comes-to-chennai.html|url-status=dead|title=Katha in the News!: "The man from Chinnamasta" comes to Chennai|archive-date=3 March 2016}}</ref>

Another major piece of her fiction during the period was ''Jatra'' (''The Journey''), based on the problem of [[Insurgent|militancy]]/[[secession]]ism that has affected almost the entire [[North-East India]] [[frontier]] ever since Indian independence.

Mamoni Raisom Goswami died at the Gauhati Medical College Hospital on 29 November 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |title=In Memoriam Indira Goswami |date=December 2011 |publisher=Prince Claus Fund |url=http://www.princeclausfund.org/en/news/in-memoriam-indira-goswami.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006164159/http://www.princeclausfund.org/en/news/in-memoriam-indira-goswami.html |archive-date=6 October 2015 |url-status=dead |access-date=6 October 2015 }}</ref>

==Literary works==

===Novels===
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* 1972 ''Chinavar Srota'' (''The Chenab's Current'')
* 1976 Neelkanthi Braja (''The Blue-Necked Braja''), translated by Gayatri Bhattacharya; Zubaan Books, 2013)
* 1980 ''Ahiron''
* 1980 ''Mamore Dhora Tarowal aru Dukhon Uponyas'' (''The Rusted Sword and Two Other Novels'')
* 1980 ''Budhosagor Dhukhor Geisha Aru Mohammed Musa''
* 1988 ''Datal Hatir Une Khowa Howda'' (''The Moth Eaten Howdah of a Tusker'' translated by the author, Rupa Publications)
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* 1989 ''Udaybhanur Choritro''
* ''Nangoth Sohor''
* 2001 ''Tej Aru Dhulire Dhusarita Prishtha'' (''Pages Stained With Blood'')
* ''Dashorothir Khuj'' (''Dashorothi's Footsteps'')
* 2005 ''Chinnamastar Manuhto'' translated as (''The Man from Chinnamasta'' translated by Prasanta Goswami, Katha)
* 2009 "Thengphakhri Tehsildaror Tamor Taruwal" ("The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar") translated by Aruni Kashyap, published by Zubaan Books, 2013)
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===Autobiography===
* ''An Unfinished Autobiography'' ([[Assamese language|Assamese:]] আধা লেখা দস্তাবেজ)
* biography's new pages ([[Assamese language|Assamese:]] দস্তাবেজ নতুন পৃষ্ঠা)
* biography's new pages ([[Assamese language|Assamese:]] অপ্সৰা গৃহ )

===Short stories===
* ''Beasts''
* ''Dwarka and His Gun''
* ''Parasu's Well''
* ''The Journey''
* ''Sanskar''
* ''To Break a Begging Bowl''
* ''Udang Bakach''
* relive

===Poetry===
* ''Pain and Flesh''
* ''Pakistan''
* ''Ode To A Whore''

===Non-fiction===
* ''Ramayana from Ganga to Brahmaputra'', Delhi 1996. (Research work on [[Saptakanda Ramayana]])

===Online works===
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110724160325/http://www.krachtvancultuur.nl/en/current/2008/december/journey "The Journey"] (short story)

==Awards==
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* 1982 – [[Sahitya Akademi]] Award (for ''Mamore Dhora Tarowal'')
* 1989 – Bharat Nirman Award
* 1992 – Sauhardya Award of Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan of Government of India.
* 1993 – [[Katha Books|Katha]] National Award for Literature
* 1996 – Kamal Kumari Foundation National Award in 1996
* 2000 – [[Jnanpith Award]]
* 2002 – D Litt Degree from Rabindra Bharati University, West Bengal
* 2002 – Mahiyoshi Jaymati Award with a citation in gold by Ahom Court of Assam
* 2002 – [[Padma Shri]] (She refused to accept)
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* 2007 – D Litt Degree from Rajiv Gandhi University [[Arunachal Pradesh]]
* 2008 – D Litt Degree from [[Indira Gandhi National Open University]]
* 2008 – [[Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar]] Gold Plate from [[Asiatic Society]]
* 2008 – [[Prince Claus Awards|Principal Laureate Prince Claus Award]]<ref name="cp">{{Cite web |author=van Oranje-Nassau van Amsberg, Johan Friso Bernhard Christiaan David |author-link=Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau |title=Speech by H.R.H. Prince Friso at the 2008 Prince Claus Awards Ceremony |date=2008 |publisher=Prince Claus Fund |url=http://www.princeclausfund.org/en/library/library/speech-by-hrh-prince-friso-at-the-2009-awards-ceremony.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006163008/http://www.princeclausfund.org/en/library/library/speech-by-hrh-prince-friso-at-the-2009-awards-ceremony.html |archive-date=6 October 2015 |url-status=dead |access-date=6 October 2015 }}</ref>
* 2009 – Krishnakanta Handique Award, Asom Sahitya Sabha
* Awarded the Ambassador for Peace from the Inter Religious and International Federation for World Peace
* The International Tulsi Award from Florida International University for her book, ''Ramayana From Ganga To Brahmaputra''
* [[Asom Ratna]] – the highest civilian award in the State of Assam, India
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==See also==
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* [[1984 anti-Sikh riots]]
* [[Assamese literature]]
* [[Bhabananda Deka]]
* [[Jyoti Prasad Agarwala]]
* [[Krishna Kanta Handique]]
* [[Laxminath Bezbarua]]
* [[Literature from North East India]]
* [[Mahapurusha Srimanta Sankardeva]]
* [[Music of Assam]]
* [[People's Consultative Group]]
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==References==
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== External links ==
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*[http://www.facenfacts.com/NewsDetails/19685/the-peace-mediator-rests-in-peace:-indira-goswami-%281942-2011%29.htm * The 'Peace-Mediator' rests in peace: Indira Goswami (1942–2011)]
* [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?p=1923 Amitav Ghosh on Indira Goswami]
* [http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/other-states/article2672271.ece Obituary in The Hindu : A beloved daughter of Assam, writer, peacemaker ]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121105124332/http://www.hindu.com/2002/02/25/stories/2002022501991300.htm Indira Goswami receiving Jnanpith Award from V S Naipaul]
* [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020210/spectrum/book6.htm Chronicles of Courage]
* [http://laffaireliterary.blogspot.com/2011/11/why-is-indira-goswami-great-aruni.html Why is Indira Goswami 'great'?]{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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* [http://www.assamtribune.com/oct0408/horizon.html ]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110716082735/http://www.reocities.com/bipuljyoti/authors/mamoni.html An Interview with Puravee Kalita]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120502173116/http://www.assamjournal.com/2011/11/mamoni-raisom-goswami-profile-biography.html Mamoni Raisom Goswami – Profile & Biography]
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* [https://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/indiragoswami.html Library of Congress The South Asian literary Recording Project]
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>BrownHairedGirl at 07:45, 28 December 2021