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,...
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