How the Land Was Won - Outlook India
How the Land Was Won - Outlook India How the Land Was Won - Outlook India Posted: 28 Oct 2020 06:29 AM PDT The Colonial Origins of Modern Odia Identity-Making In the Satyajit Ray mystery The Acharya Murder Case—titled Bospukurey Khunkharapi in its original Bengali avatar and first published in the children's magazine Sandesh in 1985—to solve a murder case, Feluda (Pradosh C. Mitter), the iconic super-sleuth, proposes a game of "twenty-nine" on the pavement behind Acharya mansion in Calcutta's Bospukur, really late one evening, to keep an eye on the house. His cousin and assistant Tapesh, the Bengali thriller writer Lalmohan Ganguli (Jatayu) and the latter's driver Haripada make up the other three members of this team of card players, dressed in dirty-looking dhotis and shawls as "Oriya cooks", as suggested by the private investigator. A large part of the labour that Odia writers and intellectuals have perfor...