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Rebati Moahn Sinha Agede samaj'han'e Gakulananda girok'ore, kirtanee aago bulia harpasi'la, kintu khub kom manu'ye girok'ore samaj - sanskarok ba rajniti'bid'ago bulia janesi. Aji girok'or likha outa pakoria amar mon'e or'je girok nije shiksa'bid baro ortho'bid ago'u aasil.  Ghor'e-ghor'e gia obibhabak're bujheya, sou're taar school'e dia'pethani, paisa bachani'rka kheti'ulaa're kita phosol pholani thok outa peya bujheya gesega....... . aloo moksi, guwa-pana daail mosuri, thou'sita Motor chana jeera bakhor moog chhagol- khoi, ada- aandi Haabi khetit pholer'ta....  Girok'e ekok'bhabe samaj'r unnoti kolpe jeta ikoria gesega outa amar itihaas'e hunar ok'khor'e likha thaaitoi. Samaj'r koi go manu'e girok'ore ou'samay samaj- sanskarok'ago bulia chinesila'ta? Emonki ...

Ramlal Sinha Gokulananda  Gitiswami Born into a penurystricken family and having to trot across towns and villages for education, he  groomed himself as a minstrel with a cause: going to every sleepy Bishnupriya Manipuri village with his “dawn chorus”  for social reforms. And he traversed Bishnupriya Manipuri-inhabited regions in Assam, Tripura and Purbobango (now Bangladesh) with the message of light till he breathed his last in 1962. The word ‘rest’ was quite alien to him as he would work round the clock with the goal of bringing his fellow beings on a par with other communities in all respects. The irony is that the very community he had served all through his life, gave him little in return – ‘Gitiswami’. Strange as it may sound, the adjective ‘Gitiswami’, when used to honour bard Gokulananda, doesn’t sound melodious to me. Doesn’t the term ‘Gitiswami’, a title conferred on the balladeer, reek of his image being dwarfed? The title of ‘Gitiswami’ for the alt...