Mixed language and our discomfort
This must have been about forty years ago. While doing his field work in the villages in the Orissa- Bengal border, a very senior...
My Alma mater
Alma mater means a school, college or university which one has attended or from which one has graduated. Alma mater is a latin word...
Narrative of a “thereafter”
In its meeting on July 23, 2013, the “Classical Language Committee” (this is how it is commonly known) of the Government of India recommended...
Ananda Math
Ananda math is a Bengali fiction written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhaya and published in 1882. The Novel was banned by the British. Later on...
The Nightingale has flown away
Nightingale is a Singing bird. So anybody who sings well can be called a nightingale. In India two persons have been praised as the...
