Studying inscriptions
Writing like music is an art. It is a process of recording our speech for possible future use. It is believed to have developed through...
Inscriptions, script, alphabet
The similarity of the Khmer alphabet to the Oriya alphabet fascinated me. The Oriya alphabet has not been easy to be classified because...
Mahim and back
Thinking about the human conditions in slums is stressful. Most of humanity is poor but they do not live in slums. The basic fabric of...
Chennai
I am on my way to Chennai, the southern city in Tamil Nadu, "the Land of the Tamils". Tamil is an old community in India having a...
Road to Puducherry
Resurgence of India to her place in the world has not been easy and is stil in the making. According to the compiled statistics India...
Bhubaneswar
The flight left Chennai at 7 AM. The east coast travel in India is beautiful. The flight path crosses many big rivers. Most rivers in...
Visit to the house at Cuttack
My father was born when my grandfather worked as a Minister to a King in the western Orissa (Odisha). These principalities were old...
Meeting College friends and Professor at Bhubaneswar
We are back on the road. The remarkable machine called the auto-rickshaw is an ideal tool for transport in India. It is very efficient...
Sri Jagannatha Conference, meeting an old friend
Independent of the Sri Jagannatha culture, Puri has been a center of creative arts and music for a long time. Oriya as a spoken language...
Visit to Cuttack, Father's ashes, uncle's home
Death exercisess a ritualistic procedure in culture. In the Christian and Islamic religions, the dead are buried, sometimes with extra...
