12k Odiya/Oriya books digitized by Srujanika are now on Internet Archive - Subhashish P collaborates to bring this OdiyaBibhaba project with multilingual metadata via #ServantsOfKnowledge - Now search for the books and also for the data inside it. These books are now OCRed and text searchable. #digitization #Odiya #Oriya #Srujanika #OdiyaBihaba
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Sometimes the similarity of words from #Oriya / #Hindi to other languages surprises me, though I know it shouldn't because, you know, we are *one* people bound by, trade, war, spices, love. Don't even need to go to #Sanskrit.
When I first found out Óchi Chórnyje meant Eyes Dark, it made a deep sense to me.
Ochi is sooo close to aakhi. 😃
One of those, “Left her corporate job to pursue what she loves” success stories I personally know. Discovered them during the pandemic and they continue to grow. There was this one time where there was a minor billing error and I just informed her with, “It’s OK. NP”. She replied with, “No. It’s not OK.”
Check them out in Swiggy/Zomato if you’re ever in #Gurgaon and #Bengali #Oriya food is your thing. Name is OriBonng - Ori for #Orissa and Bonng for #Bengal. Their 4+⭐ rating is no fluke.
Sharing a personal note she once sent, their weekend brunch and some food from their menu - ‘stolen’ WhatsApp statuses.
Anirban Mitra
omshivaprakash
Jyoti Mishra
Deus