Meet Bhubaneswar man who can speak backward fluently 

No matter how hard you try to understand what he is saying, you can’t make out a thing. It is because what he is saying cannot be recognized easily. 
In fact, it is Odia, but in reverse.  

Meet Kalicharan Barik, who runs a salon at Jagannath Vihar in Bhubaneswar, who can speak Odia backward and that too fluently. This is why his conversation with his staff at the shop is very difficult to understand. 

“When I heard him speaking backward for the first time, I thought he is speaking a different language. Out of curiosity, I even asked him about his language. I couldn’t believe when he revealed that he is speaking Odia, but in reverse,” said a customer. 

Barik has been speaking so for the last 35 years. 

Barik says when he was in school, he first tried speaking backward. The initial success and friends’ encouragement made him practice the skill. 

“First I reversed my name and then my friends’ names. Then, I talked the same way with my staff at the shop. It became a habit and I achieved fluency,” said Barik. 

It is when Barik and his staff talk in reverse that the customers at the shop find their conversation difficult to decode. Yet, they take great pleasure in listening to them. 

“I too tried speaking Odia in reverse during my childhood days. I too became an expert after joining the salon,” said Raghunath Barik, Kalicharan’s assistant.

(Reported by Swati Jena)