Can a Dialect Become a Language? The Sambalpuri Debate Explained
As it has been rightly said, “Rome was not built in a day.” Similarly, a language does not come into being all of a...
Why The Lancet Is the World’s Most Powerful Medical Journal
The Lancet is a weekly medical journal founded in 1823 in England. It is one of the excellent medical journals and one of the...
Rani Math: The Forgotten Royal Shrine Near Sambalpur
The other day I was passing by Mathpali, a village hardly six to seven kilometres from the city of Sambalpur. Suddenly I was reminded...
India’s Languages Are Disappearing-And We’re Letting It Happen
As we all know, ours is a multilingual country. The languages spoken here belong to four different language families. Of these, twenty-two are “Scheduled”...
Maa Chandrahasini: The Shakti Peetha Where Rivers, Myth and Miracles Meet
Approximately 130 kilometres from the city of Sambalpur and not very far from the Odisha state border, in the district of Bargarh, Chandrapur in...
