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Two grooms stuck as Odisha curbs entry from West Bengal Updated: Updated: State govt. imposed mandatory 14-day quarantine amid rising COVID cases Share Article State govt. imposed mandatory 14-day quarantine amid rising COVID cases Odisha’s two districts Baleswar (Balasore) and Mayurbhanj border West Bengal. While the Baleswar administration has identified 44 roads through which visitors from West Bengal could enter Odisha, Mayurbhanj had 34 such entry points. At the Udayapur border check post, tension prevailed for an hour with people demanding immediate entry into Odisha. They alleged that as the “Odisha government had started a blockade at border in the morning after declaring 14-days of mandatory quarantine just hours earlier in the night, people who wanted to return home could not cope with new system at short notice.” ....
An icon of Odia language & literature Rup Narayan Das Fakir Mohan Senapati whose birth anniversary falls today is remembered for his seminal contribution to Odia language and literature. Born in 1843 in Baleswar (Balasore) in colonial India, he grew up in the milieu of social inequity and injustice which found resonance in his writings. His foremost contribution, however, was the protection and preservation of Odia language against all odds. In a portion of his Atma Jivana Charita, which is ably translated into English by John Boulton, who was a professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, as My Times and I, Senapati wrote that the complete disappearance of traditional Odia primary schools from South Midnapur adjoining Baleswar was intriguing and was a sorry tale. Sometime between 1865 and 1870, a Bengali sub-inspector of schools was appointed to set up government schools there. He tried to found Bengali medium schools there, but people refused to h ....