Thoughts on the International Mother Language Day: 2023
On this day, our thoughts must go to those young students in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) who had fallen to the bullets of the...
Local Tales
One day our “Atirikta Sahitya (Supplementary Literature)” teacher told us the story of the river Yamuna. I was in Class Vi or VII then,...
Vani Jairam : An Inimitable melody of Odia movie music
Amid ’80s rustically slow ambience, as the dark clouds wandering randomly in the pervasive sky was heralding imminent rain, we were getting ready for...
Matinee Idol
Matinee Idol is a term used mainly to describe a male film or theatre star who is good looking and therefore is liked by...
Our“killer language” talk
It seems the expression ‘killer language” in coming up fairly conspicuously in endangered language scholars’ and language activists’ talk, formal and informal, in our...
