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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Feb 7, 2013

7:29 AM

Jharna Meher – A Survivor of Gender Discrimination in India


We live in a nation  where  a pizza  is delivered  much faster in the cities,   whereas an ambulance  never  able to reach its villages; here the density of cell phone towers are more than  the water  storage tanks;  our farmers produce enough food grains  for the mass  but  million  tons of it  are  laid  rotten  on the  open sky. And finally  the private bankers  send  their sales executives to your home to endorse a car loan, while in the villages chil dren are dropped out from the school due to lack of finance. It is not only our politicians and the bureaucrats, but  every Indian has contributed for this state of affair. This is largely  either due to our  ignorance or  for being a silent observer despite knowing everything.     

Gopaipali village is located 4 kms west to Barpali on the way to Sohila. There is a settlement of harijan or the Schedule Caste (SC) families  on the outskirt  of this village.  Any evening if you visit this village, you are most likely to find children playing  on the street at the dusk hours. Out of them you are most likely to locate a sweet girl of 14 years old while playing with her friends. It is Jharna Meher who hails from a Chammar family. They are out casted by the society as this village has been dominated by the Bramhins. 

She studied up to class 8th in her village co-educational high school. But subsequently she was  dropped out from the school as her old parents could not afford to send her to the school any more. Her father Laba Meher (52 years) and mother Kumadhani Meher (52) are both illiterate, so they don’t realize the need to impart the education to Jharna any further. Jharna is a survivor of gender discrimination which is widely prevalent in India. Soon after her birth she was thrown out on the garbage at an abandoned place near Lenda village. One warm hearted gentleman of Barpali by the name Bibhuti Bhushan Dash while crossing the road heard the cry of the baby. He was horrified to discover a naked abandoned new born girl child alive with the umbilical cord intact. Major portions of her face surrounding both the eyes were eaten by ants. It was God’s grace as she was not eaten away alive by any scavenger.  He immediately took possession of the baby girl. The girl was admitted in Barpali CHC Hospital and was under  the intensive care for three days.  After months he traced a  childless couple at Gopaipali. They are Laba Meher and his wife Kumadhani Meher. This couple eagerly adopted the baby girl. And ever since they are rearing Jharna.  

[Bibhuti Bhushan Dash could be seen with Jharana Meher]

Unlike other villagers Laba Meher don’t do cultivation, as he is a landless person. Rather he had undertaken the vocation of his community i.e. being a cobbler. Every morning he wakes up at 4.00 AM and travels to different towns to attend the weekly markets called haat. He cycle out the distance of  panch kosh which is equivalent to 40 kms one way to reach the towns like Balpur of Dist.Sonepur and Puttasingha of Dist.Balangir. He stitches the shoes and repairs the umbrellas. In good days he earns INR 150 to 200. Beside that season wise he opts for more lucrative jobs in the brick kilns or in the harvesting of paddy. 

Since Laba Meher don’t possess  a cell phone, you may contact this writer in case you want to provide any stable source of earning to the family of Laba Meher.


PS: Dr.Patricia Peyrat of France wanted to travel to India. While she was searching the Google for the road map from Bilaspur (Chattisgarh) to Balangir (Odisha) incidentally she reached www.barpalidays.blogspot.in . She read this sad life story of Jharna Meher. Dr.Patricia contacted the writer E.Kiran Mohan and expressed her eagerness to help the girl and her family. On 14th November 2014 she reached Barpali along with her two other friends i.e. Cecile and Marc. They donated two goats and one sewing machine to this poor Chamar family to source a permanent livelihood.

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Dist.Bargarh, Odisha, India


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Jan 27, 2013

9:26 PM

Chal bo, Chal Jhadama Buro [ଚାଲବୋ, ଚାଲ ଝାରମା ବୁରୋ]


It is the month of January. Like all other years me, my family and the two dogs are getting the stone pelting everyday even while at home. No it is no revenge from the neighbors, but from the children of the neighborhood. Every noon after  returning home from school they gather in groups to target the ber (Zizyphus) tree that we got at the backyard,  which bear the small, but the most  delicious tropical fruits at the end of the winter.


                                 
Yesterday noon these children expedite to the other side of the compound wall  and started pelting pebbles, stones, rocks and even brickbats  to pluck these  sweet fruit. Soon Dany and Diana raised the alarm by barking. And my Amma assigned  me to go and nab the children. I went to open the rear gate, but I was helpless. Because these children were clever enough to lock  the door from outside. I was as helpless as these two dogs were. We were all locked inside our own fort. After a while Ladoo came running to the window and shouted, “Chachu Chachu…. those Oriya kids are stealing  your buros”. I asked him to open the door and he unlocked it. But by the time I step outside, those kids were chu champat (fled) the place.


Ladoo the four years old Marwadi kid is the unofficial spy of mine. He reported it was the gang of Oriya kids of the other street. In the mean while  Piyush, Ayush, Chotu and Vivek with a broken elbow  gathered with us. They showed their concern for my safety and told not to worry and they will guard the back street. I was moved by their word of assurance. I asked them to wait for a while. I went inside the garden and gathered all the fallen fruits and distributed to these Marwadi kids for their solidarity. And these kids started shouting in a chorus, “Kiran Chachu Jindabad Jindabad, Kiran Chachu Jindabad Jindabad”.  I was much pleased to get the laurels, even when my action had no political motive. 


In this winter  the asbestos roof of our  abandoned store room has been completely destroyed due to the pelting of the brickbats and the rocks by the street kids. My father declared to execute the buro tree. My Amma expressed her resentment as every plant and the tree in the garden are being grown by her caring hands for the past ten years.  Apart from Dany and Diana garden is her first love.  
[Monkeys while invaded our residence complex to steal the buros on a winter noon]

I do believe it is not only my nephew Sreyanshu and niece Srestha, but every bird, monkey and the  children of Barpali got the equal right to relish  these delicious small fruits. Definitely it’s a nuisance, but we have to live life on this earth while giving space to others to grow. Its evening hours and play time for the street kids. I could hear one boy is shouting  as :“chal bo, chal jhadama buro” which means, lets go and pluck the berries.

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Jan 4, 2013

12:04 PM

Kakharu Bodi [କଖାରୁ ବଡି]


In the cities and the towns when people don’t have green vegetables stored in their refrigerator they  resort to cooking the sabji made with soya bean badis. Where as in the villages of Odisha our  women folk cook subji with Kakharu Badi. Now you might have the curiosity to know what this food stuff might be called in English. I ask you not to waste your time while searching for the right word in an English dictionary as it’s an Indian food substitute. This  writer would like to coin a word for it and that is “Desi Nuggets” for the reason these are chunks of biridal.

[Kakharu - The white pumpkin]

Badi is a Oriya food supplement that is prepared by every household. Badis are prepared along with biridal. These are prepared and stored in air tight container  for rest of the year. Badis are mostly cooked along with green vegetables or saag (green leafs). Whereas the making of Kakharu Badi is  once in a year event, which is scheduled to be prepared only in the winter i.e in the Hindu calendar month of Margasira, may be for the reason it is the time  when the kakharu, the big white pumpkins  are being  harvested. In case you   miss the bus to prepare  these Kakharu Badis in the winter, then you need to resort to buying the badis that are available in the open market. But I tell you that stuff  may not meet the needed hygienic standards.

It needs a meticulous planning and its execution to prepare the kakharu badis. The entire family members are involved to prepare the badis at home. Mostly the older lady or the granny of the family takes the charge to make the badis. On the other hand the man go to buy the grocery, while ladies prepare the badis manually  with hand. Finally the children of the family help the ladies to gather the dry badis from the sun.

How to make Kakharu Badis :

You need to choose the most healthy  biri dali (urad dal)  without chilka from the grocery store. Make sure to buy the newly harvested biri dal of this year to get the best results. If you make use of old dal of a year or two, it will make your  badis brown and dull in colour. If you use the newly yield dal  than your badis will appear  to be of snow white.  That is why I suggest you to inspect the dal properly while holding them in your palm. 

The day before you schedule to make the badis, cut the kakharu into convenient pieces so as you could hold it in your hand with ease.   Make sure not to remove the green skin of the kakharu. Remove the seeds and other waste from inside. With a slicer you swipe the kakharu pieces.  Now put the entire stuff of scrapped kakharu  in  a cotton cloth and tie it into a bundle. You place the shila (stone grinder) available at home on top of the kura and leave it for the night. By morning the water of the kakharu would be strained.

You need to soak the skinless urad dal in fresh water, the night before the scheduled day. The dal need to be soaked in water at least for four to five hours. In case you got the urad dal with its green chilka, then also you need not worry.  Just soak the dal in fresh water for at least five hours. When the dal become soft, crumble it with your both the hands. Drench the water properly so as to filter out the outer layer (green skin) of the dal. Now you need to mince  the dal in a thick form. Mince it in a grinder or mixer. You are advised to grind it in a thick form. You could mince it in a shila,  the hand operated stone crusher to get the best results. However you need to be from the old school to undertake this herculean task. And the only way to do the litmus test if your grinded biri is worth making bari is to put a drop of it in water. If it floats on the surface of the water, then it is perfect to be made into badis. In case the drop immerse in the water than you need to grind it further to make it smooth.

[Oriya ladies while making badis in a winter noon]
Now you  add the kakharu kura in the dough. Make sure not to add even a pinch of salt in the grinded biri. Badis are made of salt free. Salt is added only while  cooking the badi subji. In the dough add a spoon of juani and cumin seeds, which would act as a digestive enzyme. Our stuff is now ready to be made into badis. No modern tools or instruments are so far invented to make badis. These need to be made manually with hands only. For your convenience, place a charpai or wooden bed under the sun. Spread a clean cotton bed sheet on top of it.  Manually now you need to put the chunks of badis on the cloth. Allow it to dry on the sun for two days until it is completely dry. You need to dry these for one more day  in the sun by putting them  down side up.  The second cycle of drying is very important to dehydrate the badis completely. When they  are dried, collect the badis.


It is not only making of the badis, but storing of this stuff is a vital thing. You need to hoard them in an air tight container.  In case they absorb moisture than in no time they would catch the bacteria and your stuff would be spoilt. Kakharu Badis got a shelf life of somewhere six months. You should use these before the monsoon approaches in the month of June. 

And do invite E.Kiran Mohan  for lunch when you cook your subji with kakharu badis. 

kumro, bodi
    
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Dec 5, 2012

10:59 PM

Puja Dunguri - An abode of Pre-Historic Rock Paintings


Contributed by - Mr. Rameswar Naik

Pooja Dunguri is comparatively the bigger one out of all the rocky hills which exist on the border of the Binka-Rampur Tahasils in the district of Subarnapur of Odisha, India. The entire hill complex  amid the bushy forest covers an area of about 1500/2000 square meters. Surrounding it there are some tribal villages like Adakasa, Chanabeda, Tangarkarley and Chandali. The forest is on the verge of extinction due to conversion of land for the cultivation. As many as twenty six granite hillocks surround Pooja Dunguri within a range of 100-500 meters. Among them the important ones are Ushakothi, Bagh Dunguri, Kabat Talei etc.

[a rock painting of an animal at Usha Kothi]
More importantly, some of the hillocks of the complex contain paintings executed on rock surfaces. While we come across the faded painting of a small animal at Pooja Dunguri and an enigmatic design at Bagh Dunguri, there is a panel of rock painting at Ushakothi (21 02’90” North and 83 41’98”East). Rock art is a world-wide phenomenon, its antiquity dates back to thirty millennium years when the early man was in the Mesolithic  age, leading the life as a hunting-gatherer. He used microliths and in order to express his feelings executed art in the form of painting, engraving the rocks or carving the wood  in his rock shelter. Rock art continued to be executed up to the iron-age i.e. 800 BC. We find evidences of Rock art at Bhimbetka in Madhya Pradesh. Where as in Odisha tribal rock paintings are found in the districts  of Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, Sambalpur, Nuapada and Kalahandi. Western Odisha being the extension of the Chatishgarh and Chotnagpur plains, its geo-morphology and climatic conditions are very much akin to those regions. Ethno-archaeological study reveals that there was penetration of early man dwelling invariably into these parts of country, because of similar climatic conditions.


Puja Dunguri  of  Subarnapur district is the only rock-art site discovered so far in the undivided district of Balangir. The local name for the paintings here is “Putla Lekha”, which means  ‘inscribed idols’. Those pre-historic human beings used to draw the figures of animals, human beings and other geometric patterns with hematite [Fe2o3] sticks which appears in mono-chrome ocher color. These ocher red paintings does not appear on the surface of the rock, but visible only when water is sprinkled on the surface of the rocks. So for all these reasons you need a local expert to guide you to the site. If you venture out on your own, you would never able to discover the place and the rocks carrying these art made with hematite.

     [an engraved pattern on the rock]                                         
There are two such marks (1) executed above 12/15 feet above the cult spot in pooja Dunguri. The mark is having an incised hole in the middle. (2) A leaf-like pattern engraved on a cliff-rock at a considerable height at Kabat Talei. Such patterns are also intended to be incised on natural rock formation at various places of the hill-complex. Concentration of rock paintings proves the inhabitation of prehistoric man in this region. You could witness a series of such paintings on the wall and ceiling of Ushakothi, which believed to be a rock shelter. To the extreme left of the panel, a deer-like animal is shown with pegs and harpoons on its body.  On the right side of this animal an obscure  scene of hunting of an animal by the tribe has been shown. On the extreme right side a dwarfish animal which seems to be a boar has been drawn. A long figure is depicted vertically, which might be that of a monitor  lizard. All these figures are drawn on mono-chrome ochre colour. These rock paintings indicates to the hunting by the Mesolithic man. The charred bone pieces of bovine and caprice animals found from the cavities of the rocks along with the cord-impressed clay attest to the fact that once it was the abode of the hunting-gatherer who might have lived as herdsman. Carbon date backing of the relics by the forensic experts is sought to ascertain its antiquity.  

[Charred bone pieces]
[Hand stones & ring stones]
These hillocks along with Pooja Dunguri have pre-historic importance. Surface exploration have revealed certain artifacts such as pottery shreds, microliths, ring stones, grinding stone, mullers , charred bone pieces, fragment of bluish-green glass bangle, bronze bangles, cord - impressed lumps of clay, fragments of iron implements and sticks of hematite (geru). It is important to note that almost in each and every hillock traces of engravings are found.  They are both geometrical and non-geometrical patterns such as oval, triangular, triangle with a hole, foot mark, sun marks, multiple lines, lines with  cut-marks etc. Besides these, there are scoop mark on rock surfaces and big grinding holes on the floor. The size of the scoop range from 1.5 feet in diameter and 1 feet in depth in case of the biggest one to 1-2 inches of the smaller cup-marks. In local terms the cup mark are called “ganjei bata” or “cannabis grinding”. A tunnel to the east of Pooja Dunguri is named Baba Math and is believed as the abode of the mystical sadhus. The cup-marks might have fetched such a name for place as Shadhus are believed to be fond of cannabis.

In the recent past traces of Neolithic and chalcolithic settlements of early men have been found from places like Hikudi, Khambeswaripali, Kumersingha and Nuagad on the river bank of Mahanadi, in the Sonepur-Birmaharajpur region. Discovery of pre-historic paintings and engravings in the hill complex of Pooja Dunguri in the Mahanadi valley further strengthens the fact that there was penetration of early man into this district. An archeological survey of this site will unravel more authentic information about this potentially rich site.

This historian could be contacted at : 
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Mr.Rameswar Naik
Reader in History, Barpali College, Barpali - 768029
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Oct 28, 2012

5:32 PM

Bhow Bhow


The other morning when I took out my wallet there a hundred rupee note was missing. I was disturbed again as my things are missing one after another. It is worry some especially when your things are stolen at your own home. I won’t waste my time reporting an FIR in a police station even if my entire wallet would have been pick pocketed in the public transport while travelling Bargarh in the local bus.  May God forgive, as under the given circumstances I doubted on my house maid Sumani. But when Sumani came to attend her daily ordeal,  she submitted a moiled out piece of Rupee Hundred to my mother that she discovered while sweeping the floor beneath the bed. It was evident to be yet another prank of Daina, the five months old Labrador we got at home. The previous night while re-organising my wallet this note might have escaped and fallen on the floor. Diana must have picked it, this is the conclusion all that I able to draw. Prior to this my mother misplaced her spectacles somewhere and went blind for half a day. I told her, Amma  you are getting old that is why forgetting the things to remember. But by evening the broken pieces of the spectacle were recovered, while the glass was intact and scratch less. 



As such rearing dogs is not something new to my family. My parents are fond of dogs and we  kept a dog which ever house  we lived had a campus with the ground area. For the past four years we got Dany the male Labrador dog.  But now we got Diana the new kid on the block. And to be true, the public at Barpali think, people don’t get food to eat where as we are feeding two foreign dogs. This is how a neighbor’s envy becomes an owner’s pride.
As Diana’s teeth are growing, to sharpen it up she has got the tendency to bite one and everything where ever her mouth reaches. She left no furniture at home un-bitten; let it be the legs of the dining table, edge of the bed or the arm resting of the sofa set. The surviving wooden furniture which my mother got in her marriage from my maternal grandpa almost 42 years back are now taking their last breath.  
[the furniture being disfigured by Diana]
As such my mother is the one who over feeds her three children let it be me, Dany or the Diana. But looking at the ever inflating prices of non-veg my Mother made it a point to make Diana a strict vegetarian from the day one. Initially my Mom used to spoon-feed her Cerelac, the human baby food. But how could you change the inborn nature of a mammal which is carnivorous. But one day while it was raining,  Diana discovered a corpse of a baby crane in our garden. She picked that and brought it  home. She entered her favorite space to hide i.e. under the wooden bed. She had her first ever non-vegetarian breakfast. With this the long standing penance of my mother was foiled. In the days to follow she also brought a un-cooked fresh small fish which might have been dropped from the beak of a  crane in the garden. Let whatever their habits, I found these dogs highly disciplined in their eating habits. Unlike me they are not greedy. Dany is highly disciplined in her eating habits. Just two course of meals a day, that too no extra roti. When these dogs have their food, they go on playing and jumping around, as they got no school to attend. When exhausted they return home and catch a nap for couple of minutes. Unlike me this is how these dogs live life without worrying for tomorrow, while just being happy and contended for the day.  
 
[school going kids while teasing ]
During the day hours when my mother would be bizzy in her cooking or her other choir at home, these dogs seat either at the corner or lay under the bed, but all the time keep  on staring at my mother with their twinkling eyes. They might be sleeping but when wakes up, first go in search of my mother. Every weekdays at around 12.30 noon on the back street  children return home from school. There are a few naughty kids who dare to come near the window and shouts as “bhow bhow”. And immediately our pair of dogs would join the band wagon. When Dany or Diana barks in retaliation, the kids shout as “a kukur” and flee the place while laughing loudly. This is how the street children enjoy teasing Dany and Diana. 

During the monsoon one mid night  Dany came upstairs and barked near the door as “bhow bhow”. When I opened the door she came inside and lifted her rear leg over the wooden cupboard.  I did not punish him while understanding his plight, as it was raining insistently for the entire evening. Dany is very much  choosy and civilized to attend the call of the nature only at the dry and clean places. It is good to have a short memory like what Dany have. Because, unlike me, it does not live life in the past. It got no  sense of revenge or the guilt in its life.  

When I would be there at home they heed no attention to me. But when I return home after a day’s work, while one dog  would snatch away my LIC cloth bag,  the other would snatch away my shoes as if they were missing me for long. They would take my shoe and show it to my mother to tell that I have returned home. These dogs don’t know how to express love, so they push me or scratch me with their sharp nails. So far together they tore at least half a dozen of my Sambalpuri cotton shirts. These dogs have really made my life breathless and miserable at my home.

It is not only the two dogs at home, but any other canines on the street as well often taught me a lesson, one or the other way. Once while I was having singada (Indian snax) on the street one street dog came and was silently starring at me. When I finished my breakfast it started wagging its tail. The jubilation with which it moved its tail from one end to the other has made me indebted towards it, even when in no way it was related to me. I was forced to buy two pieces of these samosas and given them to her.
[Esha with Dany at home]

[Esha while playing with Diana]

Two years back my mother fell briefly sick. The gas stove in the kitchen was shut as there is no second female at home to cook. Me and my Father got the breakfast, lunch and dinner ordered from the hotel. But Dany stayed hungry for the whole two days without partaking even a biscuit or a loaf of bread. This humble dog  set on the bed while keep on licking the feet of my mother, as if it wants to embrace my mother. And Dany had his food only when my mother was back to normal health and cooked rotis for him with her own hands.
“Bhow bhow………..”
                                

Excuse me these two dogs are barking again, I need to go and check what is the issue for now.

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Oct 20, 2012

6:02 PM

Sambad says The Malgudi Days of Western Odisha = The Barpali Days


The Sambad news paper has published an article on the literary works of E.Kiran Mohan and about this blog "Barpalidays" on 19th October 2012.  It is the most widely read and largest circulated daily in Oriya vernacular. It is the news paper which got a deep penetration in the society. Sambad has got 28 years of publishing history. It is published from eight key centres in the state. It got over 60 lakhs of daily readership. They have published a big article of one fourth of a full news paper size in colour. 

They have given the image of Chaul Bara post of this blog in the news paper.

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Aug 23, 2012

12:28 PM

What is IKAT

                 
Ikat means the “tie and dye” technique of weaving which has been invented by the mankind since time immemorial. The word “ikat” likely to be originated from the Indonesian language “mangikat” which literally means tying  a bunch of yarn to dye, before its weaving.  This method of weaving  is  popularly known as “Bandha” in Odisha where as it is called “Bandhni” in Gujrat.

 The procedure to weave a length of any cloth is to firmly interlace the yarn horizontally and vertically. On the other hand in the ikat weaving the yarn is tinted at the needed places prior to it’s weaving. The yarn when loaded vertically into the handloom machine it is called warp (tani), while the horizontal yarn which shuttles in between the warp is called the weft (buna). The warp is the tightly stretched length wise core of the fabric which tends to be stronger and coarser, while the weft is woven between the warp threads to bring various patterns on the textile. Mostly the resist dyeing is done on the weft yarn which is loaded in a shuttle. But even a more complex work is done by double-ikat, where both the warp and the weft undergo the resist dyeing. The double-ikat fabric got the same design at both sides of the cloth. This unique feature could never be possible on any cloth manufactured in a power loom, despite the fact so much advances made in the technology ever since the industrial revolution a century back.



To produce an ikat saree entire family members are engaged for a week to four week time depending upon the intricacy of the design. So you could assess how labour intensive is this industry which in fact provides livelihood to thousands of families nationwide.
[Single ikat]

                                                                                                                            [Double ikat]


Before the weaving the yarn is pre-fabricated with colour by resist dyeing technique. As per the design the bunch of yarn is tightly tied with the cotton threads at the needed places and then drenched in colour. The confiscated area of the yarn retains the original colour (white) while the remaining portion of the yarn absorbs the  colour in which it has been soaked. When the yarn is dried, the knots are opened with hands and then it goes through a series of   hand operated tools like asari, upharna, badhikatar, punraa, kamancha, kamda, rahata(called charkha in Hindi), phani, nari(shuttle), nalli (bobbin)  before entering monga. Monga is otherwise popularly known as khatkhati for the echo “khat khat” which is generated from the wood while the handloom machine is operated.

Related posts :

 Padmashree Chaturbhuja Meher - Drapping the Nation with his ikat fabrics
Ikat Tour of Barpali by a French Lady


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Aug 4, 2012

10:33 AM

“The Samaja” news paper has acknowledged "Barpalidays"












“Samaja” the oldest Oriya news paper has published an article on its 1st August 2012 issue about the writer E. Kiran Mohan and his blog www.barpalidays.blogspot.in 'The Samaja', is  a mass circulated and widely read Odiya daily that has completed ‘Ninety Two’ years of its glorious publication. It was founded in 1919 by the great Oriya visionary, nationalist and freedom fighter, Utkalamani  Pandit Gopabandhu Das. 

''The Samaja'' stands for high standards of accuracy, authenticity and the core value for its journalism. It has a readership of around Sixteen lakh having a daily circulation of around three lakh units and published from eight places i.e. Bhubaneswar, Berhampur, Balasore, Cuttack, Rourkela, Sambalpur, Kolkatta and Vizag  spread across three States - Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal.

kiranbima@gmail.com
Cell # +918249314972
E. KIRAN MOHAN(The Writer)
C\o. Dr.E.R.Rao (M.D),
Tehsil Chowk,
At\PO: BARPALI – 768029,
Dist. Bargarh, Odisha, India.

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