Maithili is the language of Mithila, a cultural region of two historical dynasties in the North-Eastern part of India but no longer a distinct political entity. According to Grierson, it lies to the north of the Ganges, to the east of the Gandak river, to the west of the Kosi river, and to the south of the Himalayas (thus falling primarily in the Indian state of Bihar but including some territory in Nepal). Harimohan Jha, known as renaissance man of Mithila, wrote the book “Khattar kakak tarang” in 1948 and discusses about many things from food behaviour to dharmashastra to veda to philosophy to character of various gods to various cultural idioms of mithilanachal. His view are also very diverse as feminism, scientific temper, rationality, class and caste etc are prevalent in his writings. In the preface, Harimohan Jha describes the protagonist of the book khttar kaka as being named neo-charvak by the local people. Khattar kaka sees everything with a doubt and applies inqu...