He said praise after death was meaningless
So instead of praise: the rites performed for him, a book his people wrote, and five things given away — each of them something he was already doing while he was alive.
ମନ ଆଇନାରେ ମନମୋହନ
A memorial volume published on his first anniversary. Seventy-nine pieces in Odia and English — essays, poems and recollections — written by his family, his friends, the colleagues he taught beside, and the students he taught.
The book is not published online. The people who wrote for it wrote for a printed volume and for each other, and that is where their words stay.
Published by ମନମୋହନ ମିଶ୍ର ସ୍ମୃତି କମିଟି, ଭଦ୍ରକ
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CancerCare
Toward treatment for people who cannot pay for it — the same principle he applied to tuition.
Wikimedia Foundation
For free knowledge. He gave away teaching for thirty-eight years; this is the same gift at a different scale.
Saraswati Sishu Mandir, Bhadrak
A gift to a school, from a man who spent his whole working life inside one.
Kalpana Devi Jara Niwas, Bhadrak
A home for the aged. He looked after his own parents to the last day of their lives and thought nothing of it.
Akshara
A free Odia script converter, built in his memory and given to anyone who writes in the script. Open it →
ଅକ୍ଷର — akshara — is the Odia and Sanskrit word for a letter of the script. It also means that which does not decay. It seemed the right name for a tool whose only job is to keep Odia writing readable after the software that made it has died.