Tag: #Prof. B.N.Patnaik
Reflections on an unpleasant experience
A year has passed since then. One late evening I saw a short post on face book by a young person tothe...
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...
Local Tales
One day our “Atirikta Sahitya (Supplementary Literature)” teacher told us the story of the river Yamuna. I was in Class Vi or...
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,...
FIFA WORLD CUP 2022: notes from the margins
Big things are talked about when they happen and will continue to be talked about for years and years thereafter. Small things...
On a new term of greeting in Odia
My English (Honours) batch mate and close friend of sixty years, who said he had read my piece on “ji”, asked me...
Language under threat: the case of Odia
This piece is unlikely to give any new information to friends who will oblige me by reading it, in spite of this...
Puri Boli
In the mid-nineteen sixties, when I went to Puri to teach at SCS College, I realized that the temple was almost a...
“Park the bus” football
Barcelona (Barca) and Manchester United (MU) played in the Champions League 2011 final. But if you want to talk about the match,...
