My Mother: Dashami Borah

By Hiranya Borah

As a mother, she had scored three upon three, making all three children as class one Government servants which perhaps even 0.0001 percent Indian mother cannot claim. As a mother, from a village where girls were not allowed to study was able make her daughter as a lecturer of a Government college was not a mean achievement!
I, not as a son, but as an outsider also, salute this lady for her achievements as a daughter (she was the first matriculate and head teacher of her entire family) and as a mother (she gave us sufficient education to crack Union Public Service Commission, Assam Public Service Commission and Meghalaya Public Service Commission respectively by three children) and she made number of doctors, engineers, teacher etc. in her career as a teacher spanning over thirty nine years.
I always salute my mother as a champion for girls’ education in rural areas of Assam.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hiranya Borah
• Release date: Jun 19, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311223012

Hiranya Borah

Born in a teachers' family in a village of Assam, a province of India, Borah started his journey of writing at a tender age of eleven. He published two novels in Assamese language and other fictional and non-fictional stories in Assamese periodicals during his college days. Then Borah almost stopped his literary activity for more than three decades. In the meantime he became a Gender specialist.However,so far, he has published more than one hundred and sixty five books on this platform in English and one book in Hindi within a span of five years. The books are on different topics like inspiration,romance and love, humour, ghosts, suspense thriller, children etc and those are written both in prose and poetry.Eight English and two Assamese books are also available in printed form. 2nd edition of his first book, 'Random Thoughts' is also in the public domain.

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My Mother: Dashami Borah

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By Hiranya Borah

Copyright 2016 Hiranya Borah

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Preface

Whatever I am today, it is because of my mother. She was my idol and she was my inspiration. She encouraged me in my studies emotionally and supported me financially all along during my student days. She never asked me why I took statistics as my honours subject nor objected to my decision to study in Delhi University despite of lot of financial constraints. Even when after my matriculation, I wanted to study in Guwahati, my father offered me a scooter to study at Biswanath Charaiali College, 11 KM from our residence, my mother supported my wish to study in Cotton College, the premier institute of Assam. So far my career, good or bad, is concerned; it was mother who stood by me in all my decisions in shaping it in the present form. I want to write something about my relation with my mother in the following stanza before writing about my mother in the main story.

On the 21st day of my life, I had to face my first battle of survival as I had suffered acute case of pneumonia. Unfortunately, on that day, my great grandmother was also preparing for her final departure from this beautiful world. So entire family was busy with the preparation for a grand farewell for the elderly lady. None had the time to see the ailing boy of 21 days. Finally, my mother pleaded with everyone around her to call a doctor to see her seriously ill son. Finally, one of her seven brothers called a doctor, and luckily for me, the doctor was able to save my life.

Then, I suffered from whooping cough for a year or so. I cannot