The Samaj building is an important landmark for the intellectuals of Orissa.In many ways the Samaj is a throw-back to that era of Indian Journalism when people entered this noble profession considering themselves as servants of the people with the mission of awakening them and uniting them against the British Raj. Founded by Utkalmani Gopabandhu Das in 1919, it became a daily in 1931. Many stalwarts of Orissa like Manorama Mahapatra, Lingaraj Mishra, Dr. Radhanath Rath shaped its destiny. It is managed by “Servants of People Society” and 80% of its profit is ploughed back to social service.
The pix has been taken with my back to Baxi Bazaar. A right detour from this point will take you to YMCA while Stewart School is straight down the road
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This building brings back a lot of memories for me. A major part of my childhood was spent within the walls of this Institution during the days of Dr. Radhanath Rath, his grandchildren being my cousins and my father being his personal doctor.
With access to any part within the walls, I remember watching with awe as reems and reems of paper came out with dot & dashes.....news was transmitted in morse code those days.....I never understood how anyone made sense of those !!
thats bloody awesome! so we have in our blog the descendant of probably one of the greatest writers, orators and educationist of orissa. apart from various awards i think he also got the padmabhushan and wrote a bigoraphy from the jail.
you owe it to this blog to go thru it and bring out a critical appreciation of the work of this literary genius of orissa.
Thanx for this post Arun! Photography apart, the science of printing (specifically), and publishing in general, fascinates me (BTW, a Blog is a publication... sort of). Its amazing how millions of colours that we see on a printed page actually boils down to just 4 colours - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black!
Folks, just pick up a news paper and look at a photograph with a magnifying glass... you will find that the image is broken down into small dots. Now pick up an individual dot from that maze - believe it or not, printers actually get down to discussing that individual dot! The shape, the fringe of that dot, the angle a row of dot creates etc.. etc.. i can go on and on. Coz, Printing is what i studied after college...
You made my day Arun! And Kausty, I envy you!
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