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MoKatha published on Norvay wwww.nirvaynews.com 24th Feb '21 talks of changes in our eating habits. Eating out has become a trend and so more the roadside eatery. True, this provides employment to the small canteens-on-wheels or makeshifts. Also it's alarming how abysmal unhygenic these canteens are. Also it's not true big canteens are completely hygenic and serve quality product. What's there behind a decorated canteen and how clean the kitchen is, God knows. Our epics say, hit bhuk, mit bhuk and rut bhuk (eat nutritious, eat less and eat in time). The column talks through a story of Chirag, the village boy on software job in Bangalore. He finds the mallady of eating out.

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MoKatha on 17th Feb '21 www.nirvaynews.com explores the polymorphism of the Odia word Hundi. Semantics of Hundi in its feminism ranges from innoncence soaked with love to the one who is a scheming but looking innocent. Again it talks of Hundi in a temple for the devotees who wish to donate with annonymity. Contributing to Hundi is unlike crowd sourcing of today found on Internet money collection. However, it also talks of temple Hundi and the hands of Government unlike the Kings of yesteryears. The fable of King Indradyumna who even wished no progeny to claim the temple by inheritance. In the times of claims and patents the sanctity of Temple Hundi is a cry to be heard of soon for protecting culture as well as the sculpture. Wish you read and opine.

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MoKatha published on Nirvay newspaper www.nirvaynews.com 10th Feb. 2021 talks about rulal India. The point it makes it on its rustic beauty which is its essential sense of ruralism. In the name of rural development the very essense of ruralism is gettign lost. It is infact a pan urbanisation; that is sad. The column goes through Odia colloquials and idioms for your pleasure reading with nostalgic moments.

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