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Hello my birth name is Susmita Barua. You may just call me Mita (which means 'friend' in feminine). I was born and raised in the early 1960's and 1970's in Calcutta, India in a very tiny minority immigrant community of Bengali Buddhists. These Buddhists somehow survived in the coastal Chittagong area of Bangladesh, as Buddhism declined, decayed and eclipsed in mainland India (see Barua Buddhists). Even as a little child I used to wonder about being a lone Buddhist among all my my friends who were not! When I was about 7 years old, I had a vivid luminous dream where I was peeping from inside the earth and witnessing Buddha in a standing position giving his first sermon to his five disciples under a tree. All of them had glowing bodies and robes of white light surrounded by golden halo! This dream made me feel very blessed! I also recall often falling asleep gently chanting the three refuge words and the buddhist blessing, "May all beings be happy! My father was quite active in our community and despite his failing health did his best to peserve the legacy (of many pioneering Buddhism revival work in modern Bengal and India) of my great grandfather Ven. Kripasaran Mahathero (1865-1926).
From very early on I have always been an observer of life and I noticed the many inequalities - terms of gender, age, caste, religion, wealth, social status, skin color and such - that existed in Indian society and still does in various degrees in all societies around the world. Two of the most awe inspiring childhood memories I recall now was hearing the sound of Ocean from a distance and seeing the vastness of it for the first time and getting a very thick "children's Book of Knowledge" as a gift from my uncle! Like most children I asked many "why" questions, most of them stayed with me till now. One basic question for me was, "how do human children born with basic goodness and sanity grow up to be in this sorry situation?"
Professionally I was trained as a geographer, social scientist, research analyst, regional and urban planner. As I came to know more about world history, geography, cultures, economic and political systems, the nature of my questions changed. I found that many things we study in sciences and arts do not ask the basic question 'Why'? Why do we have so many wonders unexplained in our pre-recorded history? How come we humans create systems (our own creation) that we do not understand? Why communism with its great ideals of equality for all fails miserably? Why capitalism with its ideals of free speech and free market is also failing in closing inequalities in access and income? Why India, a great nation with its highest spiritual insights and wisdom could not translate it in the everyday living of average Indians?
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