The Barpali Days

This blog is the Facebook of Barpali which picturise its "life" and "culture". It was a "palli" or a village a century back where the all time great Oriya poet swabhaba kabi Gangadhar Meher had taken birth. Now this bustling little town is renowned world-over for the weaving of Sambalpuri ikat handloom fabrics. Agriculture is its prime economy. And when you happen to visit this little town don't miss to taste Chaul bara.

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Aug 9, 2019

7:49 AM

Fem Asia Magazine published a post of this blog

Fem Asia magazine of Birmingham, England  has published  the news on Payal Patel in its 15th July  2019 issue.  It is written by blogger and developer of this page E Kiran Mohan 

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Feb 17, 2019

7:57 PM

Kalinga TV broadcasted news about The Barpali Days


Kalinga TV broadcasted a news clip of 4 and half minutes in Sambalpuri language about barpalidays and its creator E Kiran Mohan in their news bulletin Khabar Samiya. All thanks to their anchor Prabeen Kumar Sahu and reporter Mahendra Sahu
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Dec 31, 2018

8:30 PM

Prabeen Kumar Sahu: Ruling the Prime Time of Odia television industry


Prabeen Kumar Sahu is the one whoh has made a ripple in the Odiya television broadcast industry. He is the news caster of Kalinga TV. This young man was born and brought up at Barpali. He able to go a long way from western Odisha to eastern Odisha to make an identity for self and his town Barpali.
Prabeen was brought with the marginal income of his father who is a businessman. Prabeen has attended the Odiya primary school located in the Rajbati of Barpali.

Though now he is a handsome and tall
man, but during his childhood he used to be a hefty boy. He had such a large belly that his brother use to tease him while saying it’s a pillow and he can sleep by resting his head on it. While he might be hardly 5 years old his mother used to give Praveen Rs.2 to bring change from the grocery store. That boy used to go to the store and was asking for the coins of smaller denomination. When the proprietor of the grocery store would give four 50 Paise coins in exchange, Prabeen used to voluntarily return 50 Paisa and bring the rest three coins to home. That tender boy had such a good heart that he was thinking the business man should get his fee for the services he was providing. On reaching home Prabeen used to get shouting from his mother for doing such stupid acts. She was sending Prabeen once again to bring back 50 Paisa from the grocery store.
While he was a school student Prabeen used to be a prankster. He recall an incident when he was in the 6th Standard. Once he did not do his home task so Prabeen along with two of his batchmates were punished. Their Dengri Sir asked them to kneel down outside the classroom until the period is over. Prabeen and two of his friends were ridiculed by all the students of his class. Prabeen was deeply hurt and was furious. To retaliate Prabeen cut the tyre of the bike of that teacher with a blade. But later on Prabeen  deeply regretted   for his misdeed  and begged pardon.

Every year in his area people conducts Ram Leela. The organizers once approached Prabeen to do the role of Lord Ram. His father agreed to the invitation. But when Prabeen went to practice, looking at his hefty figure he was allotted the role of Bibhishan. Prabeen was innocent, but his father shouted at him why he accepted such a negative role. During his school days Prabeen happened to be a fickle minded kid. Every Sunday in their home mutton used to be cooked. While watching Shaktimaan the famous TV serial of the 90’s our Prabeen used to have the special afternoon meal. While eating mutton and watching Mukesh khanna in the TV Prabeen used to think himself to be a legend.

One Sunday morning it so happened his father purchased mutton and handed over him to carry home the polythene bag containing mutton. But that kid always used to be in a happy state of mind, the way you find him as on this date. Prabeen brought the bag of mutton while rotating it with his fingers. It was obvious the mutton dropped out of the polythene bag and fell on the road. On reaching home his mother suspected why the quantity of meet seem to be less than one kilogram. Prabeen confessed the mistake that he has done. His mother was furious and beat him with a stick. But Prabeen consoled his own self thinking he has taken the resort of truth.


On reaching college Prabeen became inclined towards music. Prabeen started singing songs on college functions, Barpali Loka Mahotsav  and various other programs. During college elections he contested as well. When he used to approach the students class wise the girls were are asking him to sing Hindi songs, instead of any material benefits.


Prabeen is the second sibling. His elder brother was a preferred son of their mother. Prabeen was not that good in studies as compared to his elder brother. So on completion of his graduation his Badbapa suggested him to open and run a shoe store at Barpali. But his father had high ambition from his son. He wanted Prabeen to opt a profession which is closer to his heart. Prabeen appeared for the entrance examination of Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC). With his seer ability Prabeen able to crack the hard nut of a Central Government institution. His father anyhow managed to arrange needed funds for his son so as he can travel Dhenkanal to enroll his name in IIMC; pay hostel fees; buy study books and a laptop.


Our Barpali hero caught an evening bus and reached Dhenkanal at midnight. Next morning he took admission at IIMC. On boarding the hostel of IIMC Prabeen faced all the vagaries of this cruel planet, because until then he led life in the comfort zone of their home. On successful completion of his education Prabeen joined Kalinga TV as a news anchor.


Prabeen has got a smart outlook. He got
active presence in the social media through Facebook and WhatsApp. Obviously he is an heart throb of many girls across Odisha. Due to the anchoring of different programs the viewers of Kalinga television recognises him. Once it so happened he updated his Facebook saying he is going to Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar for an evening stroll. On reaching there and while walking a girl confronted him. She said she is a Facebook friend of him and reached there just to meet him on reading the status update of his Facebook post.


We are talking about one side of the coin, where as this versatile young man is trying his prospects in modelling and singing as well.

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Dec 4, 2018

7:07 PM

Education Express published news about this blogger E Kiran Mohan


Education Express which is circulated with the Monday edition of The New Indian Express has published a full page news about the creator of this blog Epari Kiran Mohan(click here). This paper has got a daily circulation of 3.1 lakh copies in Odisha alone. 

Date of publication 3rd December 2018
http://epaper.newindianexpress.com/m5/1920301/Edex-Odisha/03-12-2018#dual/2/1

This blog is obliged to their columnist Seema Rajpal for taking this initiative. 


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Oct 18, 2018

2:57 PM

Sushil Kumar Bag: Where literature supersede TV broadcast media


Often in the Bollywood movies a villager is shown migrating to Mumbai with an empty hand, but he become successful on reaching over there. Likewise there are several instances across Odisha, where youths from our villages went to Bhubaneswar. Despite confronting  several hardships for the survival, finally able to bloom out in their life with flying colours. 



Somewhere in the mid 80’s of the last Century Sushil was born to a humble family to the Secretary of Lenda Panchayat. That boy was brought up in the rural atmosphere while being deprived of the basic amenities. Sushil attended his primary and upper primary school in his village Lenda. On passing out Standard 7th his father made his admission at Govt. Boys High School, Barpali. In order to attend school every day he had to walk four kilometres to reach Barpali. Likewise at evening it consumed almost one hour to walk back to his village from Barpali. Under such hardships our children were brought up in the villages of Odisha. 
[His house at Lenda where he was brought up]
Sushil was fond of riding a cycle, but never dare to touch the cycle of his father, because while learning to ride the cycle, the tube of the rear wheel busted and he got a thrash from his father. Replacement of a cycle tube burdened his father with an additional expenditure of Rs.30/- which was a difficult job on the part of his father to bear. His father was rearing his four children with an abysmal income. His father was a man of strict discipline and Sushil used to fear him a lot. At evening on returning from school, Sushil used to play with children on the village street. But at dusk hour when Sushil would spot his father returning from his Panchayat office he   would run home and sit on the floor with his study books as if he was doing his homework. He recalls at home they had 60 watts bulb and due to low voltage at evening he was studying with low luminosity of a kerosene lamp called baitha. Sushil passed 10th exam even without taking any private tuitions. It boosted his spirit. He was motivated to excel further in the studies.

Sushil took admission in +2 Arts at Barpali College. His father bought a second-hand cycle for him so as he could reach his college conveniently. 



During his graduation in Arts at Barpali College Sushil was inclined towards writing stanzas in Odia. For two years his writings were published in the college magazine. But when he submitted a feature article to Ganaistahar a Odia weekly newspaper, it was published. He was overwhelmed when he saw his article was printed in the newspaper. He carried it to show one and every family members at home. Next day he even carried it to his college. Those days there was neither Facebook nor the WhatsApp so as he could have shared his achievement with his friends.  


(while felicitated with Katha Nabapratibha Puraskar)

On graduating he joined MA in Odia at Sambalpur University. All the while he undertook the job of a sub-editor of two local newspapers by the name Agnisikha and Dakra at an abysmal monthly salary of Rs.750/- from each of these two assignments. During the year 2001 while doing Master Degree in Odia, he was felicitated by the acclaimed international writer Manoj Das with the “Katha Nabapratibha Puraskar”. On acquiring doctorate he joined as a reporter of Sambad at Sambalpur. It was where he came to the mainstream of Odia print media. 
With his Odia professor Dr Manindra Kumar Meher the great grandson of swabhaba kabi Gangadhar Meher

At Sambalpur he made an investigative journalism on the infant mortality rate by collecting data from the Chief District Medical Officer(CDMO). When this news was printed in Sambad, that  made a hue and cry in the entire region. The District Collector of Sambalpur called the CDMO to take stock of the situation. During this spell of time the print media of Odisha started recognising the dexterity of this budding journo. All the while Sushil kept on writing in Odia. He even went on to reading his short stories in the All India Radio(AIR) Station of Sambalpur. He was paid Rs.250/- for each of the ten story telling programs that he conducted in the radio. This is how he got acquainted with the electronic media. 



Subrat Sahu the Sub-editor of Odia newspaper Prameya consider his own self to be the Arjuna and he learnt all the tricks of modern day warfare of journalism from his guru Sushil Kumar Bag. He says in the epic Hindu mythology of Mahabharata Ekalabya had to sacrifice the thumb of his right hand even when he learnt archery while hiding himself beyond a tree. Whereas Sushil Sir is the modern day Guru who has chosen able disciples and imparted training of the highest order to produce lot many Arjuna’s to work in the press. There is rampant cut throat competition in press media. And you never know, if at all you would be in the payroll of the company, until the next edition of the newspaper is thrown by the boy at your doorstep next morning.  


By the mid of the last decade Sushil shorted out the limitations of print media. He found his works able reach only to the Odia literate people. Whereas a major segment of the society is deprived of his journalistic works because they are illiterates and cannot read newspaper. He found television broadcast industry is reaching more people across all the segment of the society. Through TV he could reach even the illiterates. In the year 2008 he got a big leap  in his career when he joined OTV as a News Executive at Bhubaneswar. It is the prominent regional television broadcast company of Odisha with an estimated 7,526GVTs(Gross Viewership in Thousands). OTV is a media venture of Mrs. Jagi Mangat Panda. She is wife of Ex-MP Baijayant Panda. Over here Sushil produced  many episodes on different religious and cultural festivals of Odisha like Ratha Jatra of Puri, Dhanu Jatra of Bargarh, Bali Jatra of Cuttack, Thakurani Jatra of Berhampur or be it Sital Sasthi Jatra of Sambalpur.

Despite being on the centre of the limelight, he used to have a sense of hollowness in life. And to encounter the monotonous job he resorted to take shelter of his fort i.e. Odia literature. Over the time he had written four Oriya books. The first one was a biography on the life of writer Hata Kishore Panigrahi titled “Nirmala Nirjhara”. 
The second book was on the life and works of a poet titled “Brajanath Ratha: Kabi O' Kabita”. The third book was a comparative study on the literary works of Saint poet Kabir along with that of swabhaba kabi Gangadhar Meher of Barpali titled “Santha Kabir O' swabhaba kabi Gangadhar”.
He says when he is working for a company he need to be loyal to his profession. Seldom has he got any freedom to break the high standard of discipline that is needed to observe in his professional work. So to ventilate his inner and personal views he resorted to take shelter of literature. But the irony is that, Sushil don’t get any royalty from the publisher of his books. The publisher in exchange of the copyright fee gives him 30 to 40 pieces of paperback books to sell them in the market and to earn money. Ironically instead of selling the complimentary books in the market Dr.Sushil is always tempted to gift those pieces to his well-wishers so as to get loyalty, instead of royalty.

He is a member of Odisha Sahitya Academy and is holding this position consecutively for three terms spanning over nine years. It is obvious one who works for the society let in whatever form, he ought to get the acknowledgement. Over the span of past 15 years he was felicitated by different organisations across Odisha and India. So far there are a bunch of awards in his kitty.
In the 2017 Bhubaneswar Book Fair he was felicitated with the Literature Award by Shri Ramakanta Ratha(IAS). Later he bagged "Ashok Chandan Smruti Sanman" at Patnagarh. That apart he got "Kanduri Charan Smruti Sanman" at Cuttack. The boys of western Odisha living at Bhubaneswar have a organisation of their own by the name Sambalpuri Folk Academy. And they have felicitated Dr.Sushil Kumar Bag with the coveted title of “Juhar Sanman”. And he was felicitated by Shri Prabhas Singh the MP of Bargarh at a grand event conducted at Bhanja Kala Mandap of Bhubaneswar.

Sushil says it is only literature that has made his life wholesome and he will keep on writing so long he survives. And the day he halt writing, he is likely to breathe his last.



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Jan 6, 2018

12:00 PM

Mahendra Kumar Darjee : The sole TV journo for art and culture of Western Odisha


Mahendra Kumar Darjee is the sole TV journalist who brought the art, culture and history of western Odisha to the limelight. He made score of short documentaries on different subjects of Western Odisha for the Barnali programme which was broadcasted in Etv Oriya. His documentaries were well accepted by the society, because they were backed up by in depth research. He is a man of details and made documentaries on the mesmerizing art, culture and monuments of western Odisha. He has explored the ancient history of western Odisha and its iconic royal dynasty. 



Over the decade he has made documentaries on the subjects like Nuakhai, Dalkhai, Rogibatta, Humabauli dance, Paschim Odishar Alankar, Budhiaie Jatra, Patkhandha jatra, Kharligarh(Kharbelgarh), Bihanbudi jatra, Kemkeda Sabarpalli, Bonda hills of malkangiri, Sabda Nrutiya, Pua juintia, Nanda Utsav, Bourapita, Barpali bandha kala, Choukhatia bhunjia tribe of Nuapada, Dongaria kandha of Niyamgiri, Jugar jatra of Kuchipali, Ram Leela, Goudbadi, Sua nach, Kalanga danda, Kundabera, Barabhai length river and so on. He has even documented places of tourist importance of Western Odishabe it Harishankar, Nrushinghanath or Patra dam.

He is promoting the much neglected heritage, culture, art, ornaments, antique currencies and monuments of this neglected area. Balangir district is famous for its histoic heritage sites like Ranipur Jharial, Gumagarh at Tusra and so on. He made video documentaries of Chausathi Jogini temple. It was a tantra pitha of medieval period known for many of temples. It is famous for the Indralat temple made of bricks situated at Ranipur. Apart from western Odisha's heritage he produced the episodes for Crime Files that was telecastted by ETV Oriya. He made several crime files and delivered  justice to the bereaved family members of victims. His crime reporting was not only accepted by the society, but was appraised by the Odisha Police itself.

His contribution to the society is beyond the services of a journalist. Some twenty years back he got to know about an isolated village Chinched which is surrounded by Junani Jore a tribune of Tel river. Over there a bloody fight was going on for nearly 40 years. Without caring for his life he entered that area and persuaded rival people to setup a Gram Pachayat. Since then peace has been restored. In the year 2000 when the villagers celebrated Independence Day they invited this journo and made him do the flag hasting of Tiranga instead of inviting the Block Development Officer. This is how this journo set as an example to become a social reformer through the vocation that he opted in this life.

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