The Subha Shankha Sahitya Anusthan, one of the premier literary organisations of Mayurbhanj, recently held a colourful get-together of its members here at Baripada.
The organisation unanimously resolved to begin publishing its mouthpiece 'Shankha' once again after a long gap of 14 years.
The purposeful meeting, which was convened by Sanjay Kumar Chowdhry and in the local Station Bazaar Hanuman Mandir premises, also decided to enlist the support and cooperation of the intelligentsia of the district in the endeavour.
The function was presided over by Dr Puspa Patra and Shriram Chandra Bhanjdeo University Vice Chancellor Kishor Chandra Basa, RG pur MG Eye Hospital founder Aditya Patnaik, industrialist Murari Sharma and educationist Shyam Sundar Das.
Shankha had first seen the light of the day way back in 1994 and was being regularly published till 2007, after which, however, its publication had been stopped due to financial crisis, the speakers revealed.
A seminar entitled "Literature for the sake of Social Welfare" was also held there immediately after the meeting. Quite a few enlightened citizens of the town including Ramesh Panda, Tanushree Mohapatra, Dr Mohit Sarangi, Basantilata Mohapatra, Sunil Jena and Usha Satpathy took part in the programme.