By: Manorama Choudhury I had mentioned visiting Nuapatna, Cuttack, to meet the Maniabandha weavers in an earlier post. Our visit on that day had another purpose too. I along with Dr. Annapurna Pandey, a prof at UC Santa Cruz, and Rajesh, a film director, ventured out one day for Nuapatna. It was a beautiful day fairly warm for the …
By: Manorama Choudhury We can buy almost everything, but not happiness. To truly be happy, make someone else happy. It is said by many, “Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give.” We often take many things around us for granted. Modern civilization has undergone a dramatic transformation with modernization, but …
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By: Dr. Annapurna Devi Pandey, Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Santa Cruz Jane Goodall, the renowned primatologist, insists on writing, talking about, and spreading stories of Hope—people tackling what seemed impossible and not giving up. Those stories should have equal time because they give people hope” ( New York Times, 16 March 2024). …
