Pure Odia Matters
The other day a close friend of mine from Bhubaneswar – we were batch mates in the English Honours and M.A. classes in Ravenshaw...
Surupa Anshupa loke agochara
(The beautiful Anshupa remained unknown)
Pujyaspada he lagos padapushkara (whereas) the small Pushkara became the object of worship), wrote Kabibara Radhanath Rai, the famous Odia...
“Useless knowledge” – just a preliminary analysis
This was sixty-five years ago. I had just become a student at Ravenshaw College. The spirit of the freedom struggle was still very much...
The way people talk!
Last week I was reading Professor Prakash Pattanaik’s book “Against All Odds”. The author is a linguist, a specialist in cultural studies, and a...
Reminiscing about an interesting seminar
In 2010, the Linguistics department of Aligarh Muslim University had organized a seminar on an unconventional topic: the historical and socio-cultural aspects of culinary...
