CONVICTED PRISONERS UNLEASHED BY JAILOR, HIGH COURT SILENT!

Bhubaneswar Bureau
Bhubaneswar, Jul.27
Have judicial courts forgotten their powers to draw contempt proceedings against willful contraveners of their rulings? If so, what the High Court is doing to restore the authority of the courts within its own jurisdiction?
It might be such that no individual has drawn the High Courts attention to instances of flagrant contravention of [...]

The Privilege Syndrome

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
The issue of Privilage has engaged the Orissa Legislative Assembly many a times. In a recent ruling, the Speaker had to reject the notice of privilege against an I.A.S. Officer who was alleged to have trespassed into the Lobby of the House on the specific ground that he was not named. As he [...]

Criminalization Of Politics: How To Stop It?

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Most of the patriots are no more active in politics. It has become a business of the criminals. How to stop it? The whole country, from the President to the person at the grass-root, has been cogitating this question. Let me offer an answer.
A politician’s link with his constituency provides a congenial climate [...]

Orissa: The Motherland of Tathagata Buddha

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Buddhists have the canonical instructions to visit four places with reverence. The birth place of Buddha is the first amongst them. But due to Brahminical conspiracy, the world is so misguided that the birth place of Buddha has wrongly been taken to be in the Tarai region of Nepal. And, therefore the real [...]