Requiem to a passing year
From the Director’s Desk… Requiem to a passing year As I sign off the year to wish a new, and perhaps difficult, year in battling yet one more variant of Coronavirus, I must signal two important events pertaining to education and knowledge dissemination, both happening in the last quarter of the year. One was the opening of the Sarojini Devi Memoriallibraryin mid-September, a paean sung to an inimitable person whose persona had charmed me all my life though by a happy coincidence she brought me in humanform into this world, my mother; the other, a much awaited platinum jubilee celebration of my beloved school, BiswambharBidhyapith, which happened with much fanfare in the third week of December in Puri. It could be anybody’s guess that I may have been the common factor in both, and the spirit which emboldened me in both enterprises was the passion to pay back to societyselflessly what little I had earned and made it my calling. But before going any further, let me wish you andyour ...