MoKatha on Nirvay newspaper www.nirvaynews.com dated 5th August '20 talks of a new world that albeit Carona has made it faster to appear that is the world-of-online where people found sitting on a line that is a void line on cyberspace connecting one to another never before people atleast in India found so patient to stand on lines except those two national days celebrations in schools when rural kids were arranged on lines like apples in packing boxes to a great annoyance of rural school teachers who found ever freedom loving kids severely strained for the days with loves of the nation deep in set whereas elders of the days found them as chattering beings being around the village barber Chemini of my village Bangalpur who had additional, infact prime duty at the village goddess Paschima who had and now even has, no love to bricks and mortars rather happy being under the giant banyan tree to listen to the prayers of villagers that Chemini conveys being a mediator with earnestness but nobody really was curious to know whether Chemini barber was following line for delivering his service at the Goddess or cutting hairs but all were happy even not being rekharudha online.
But now digital society added by the fear Carona has made a person in and out all online, a virtual life that exists for unseen by an unseen. World moves now online; no more yantrarudha because shutdowns have put the vehicles guarded in garages now you can sit and on pressing the buttons you desires moves, moves to clouds and grids from where messiahs, the bots and chats appear as 'akka hukum karo' to pluck the moon from sky from you provided you have enough of bytes and bits to pluck and pay.
The column in Odia goes with typical village pics of pasts we have left behind and put self in while loop with undefined termination condition thinking we may last infinite hopping no debugger is that efficient to find out because you know you have raised the debugger but alas you forgot your creations would once deviate as that was the rule of the game in past, as it's now and will remain so for the future. Debugger will dig once to find all the same; it's indeed
Aham Ekam
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ଶୁନ୍ୟରେଖା ଏବେ ବହୁତ ବଳିୟାର, ଯେମିତିକି ଅଦୃଶ୍ୟ ଶକ୍ତି I ତେଣୁ ଏହାର ଚାହିଦା ବେଶୀ I ସମସ୍ତଙ୍କର ଶକ୍ତିମାନ ହେବାର ମନ I
ପ୍ରଦ୍ୟୋଗିକୀ ଦିନକୁ ଦିନ ପ୍ରଖର ଗତିରେ ଅଗ୍ରସର I ଏଇ ସମୟରେ ଯିଏ ପଛେଇଲା, ସେ ନିଶ୍ଚୟ ପଛକୁ ରହିଯିବ I ସମୟ ସାଥିରେ ତାଳକୁ ତାଳ ଦେଇ ଆଗେଇଯିବା ପାଇଁ ସମସ୍ତେ ବ୍ୟସ୍ତ I ଏହାହିଁ ବର୍ତମାନର ଦୁନିଆ I କିନ୍ତ ଏହା ପାଇଁ ବହୁତ କିଛି ତ୍ୟାଗ କରିବା ସଂଗେ ସଂଗେ କିଛି ଆହୁତି ମଧ୍ୟ ଦେବାକୁ ପଡୁଛି I
ସାର, ସମସ୍ତେ ମାୟାରେ ବୟ I
Namaskar Sir
I always enjoy to read your columns
Rekharudha is a classic story of the present situation in the society. Wonderful presentation of the online education ,shopping and so on.
You are amazing👌
Started from a humble village story ended up with the current online system.
My best wishes to you always to open the eyes of millions.
I owe to your love for villages and to the traditional practices of the villagers🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Rekha Rudha
True. CORONA has permanently instilled the queue habit which was still a distant possibility in India by administrative instructions. Standing in a queue was always confronted with self esteem there by showing Undisciplined behaviour.
Chemni Barik upakhyan is really interesting. That reminds me the barber in our village whose responsibility was to take care of village goddess. Also that reminds me how he was using his discretion in giving priority to some person over others while waiting for a haircut. Though he was visiting houses as per turn, still he was a person in the village having knowledge about all. Your story also reminds me our prayers to thakurani on our way to school. Added to Republic and Independence Day on two other days Ganesh Puja and Saraswati puja queuing students was also a responsibility of our teachers.
Your every episode of Mo Katha takes me back to my village days and brings me some refreshing memories of those golden times.
Nice one. Enjoyed fully.
Thanks for sharing.
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