Koraput:  Ch Santakar,   Sr. Correspondent.

A meeting by Koraput Sahitya Parivaar was held in the premises of Sarvodaya Samiti in Koraput today evening to discuss on the Classical Status of Odia language. Sri Umakant Das , our teacher and a great researcher on Odia language & literature shared his learning on the relevance , history and the way forward for the language . He took back the discussion to the the origin of the language and how it was an original language in itself and was independent from Sanskrit . Sri Narayan Panda , Dr.Jagabandhu Samal , Dr.Pritidhara Samal , Rabi Satpathy and Sri Akhyay Mahanty spoke