As the proverb
goes - in books and love the mind pursues one end - Pramila Sinha, a grassroot
woman of Unakoti district has proved it with her life-practice since childhood.
The life-long lessons ultimately made her a leader of a grassroot society,
empowered to challenge the oddities being faced by a woman and particularly one
belonging to the opposition party. Headed by this exceptional woman, Goldharpur
panchayat however being controlled by Congress, is witnessing facelift in
traditional rural scene as well as percolation of developmental benefits.
In her tender age while studying at sixth
standard she had been compelled by her father to discontinue study.
Nevertheless, that threat which had hardly posed any challenge before such a
bold girl made her flee away home to take refuge into the heart of a young
teacher of her village for sake of continuing schooling. By the way, she had
for years lived together with the teacher Radhika Mohan Sinha and ultimately
got married to him in 1956. Few years later, ironically when Radhika Mohan
married another woman, Pramila used to sleep on the floor of the room where her
husband shared the bed with her second wife.
Remaining unfazed over such a predicament, she had, on the contrary, asserted
on holding the shelter to pursue education taking help from her
teacher-husband. < more ... >
