March 4, 2018
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Cries Mounted for Reviving Nabin Chandra Bardoloi Library
Persistent voices are being raised to revive a historic public library cum hall at the heart of Guwahati city and popular demands are floated for using the space for occasional and selected public gatherings. The library, surrounded by Cotton University, Handique Girls’ College, Gauhati High Court, State Museum, Ravindra Bhawan etc, carries the memory of…
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DORJEE YOUDON- A Tibetan Female War Hero.
Tibet must also have female war heroes at various times and that their contributions were either not recorded or deemed of lesser significance by the mainstream. Interestingly while turning pages of Mikel Dunham’s book “Buddha’s Warriors,” I stumble upon an important episode about a Tibetan female whose name was Dorjee Youdon, which I would like…