NATIONAL REPRESENTATION IN HINDI AWARDS NECESSARY

Bhubaneswar Bureau

A recent opinion expressed here stressed that Hindi Seva Samman comprising fifteen national awards for popularization of Hindi in India and abroad should expand to project a national representation.
Orientation training of trained Hindi teachers of Dhenkanal Educational Circle, commenced on January 08, had its valedictory function on Jan 25 at the Bhubaneswar Centre of [...]

ORIYA BOY LONE WINNER OF NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP IN HINDUSTANI VIOLIN

Bhubaneswar Bureau

Out of 382 National Scholarships awarded this year in different art streams by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, only one scholar has been selected for advanced studies in Hindustani Violin. And, he is Sri Laxmi Prasad Pattanayak of Tigiria residing at Bhubaneswar.
Sri Pattanayak is a Master of Music from the Utkal University [...]

FOURTH ESTATE NEEDS TO BE SALVAGED FROM GRIP OF TRADERS

By arrangement with Athgarh Prahari

Subservience of peoples interest to commercial interest in the Fourth Estate must stop, if democracy is to be salvaged from the pernicious grip of plutocracy, emphasized veteran journalist Subhas Chandra Pattanayak while inaugurating the annual function of Athgarh Prahari.
Athgarh Prahari, a rural newspaper published from Athgarh in the district of Cuttack [...]

Orissa: Throttled Dissent, Overstepped Laws, Displaced Peoples

Saswat Pattanayak

Here is a classic case of manufactured consent.
News is agog that India will have its Harvard University in next two years. Even Forbes Magazine testifies to that. The corporate media hails a proposed university in India to be the greatest hope of reified vision where huge mass of people will be educated for betterment [...]

ORISSAS BAD ADMINISTRATION AWARDED CASH PUNISHMENT

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Orissa High Court in a land mark judgment yesterday has asked the State Government to pay the bereft family of Rabindra Sahu of village Uamsa Sahi of Puri district a cash penalty of Rs.2.5 lakhs within two months.
Sahu was tortured to death in police custody in the Hazat of Chandanpur Police Station, as [...]

CAN COURTS BE USED AS PLATFORMS FOR CHARACTER ASSASSINATION?

UNIQUE CASE IN ORISSA HIGH COURT.
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Can a High Court be used as a platform for character assassination? A defendant in Orissa High Court has raised this pertinent question; the answer to which may be far-fetching.
Mrs. Asharani Misra is defendant in CRLMC N. 2144/2006 before the High Court of Orissa. Petitioners in the case [...]

TATA PROVOKES VIOLENCE AGAIN: KALINGA NAGAR PORTENDS MAYHEM

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Only two of the agents of TATA have sustained injuries, but Kalinga Nagar, not yet recovered from the injury this industrial house had inflicted upon it on 2nd January 2006, that had shocked the entire civilized world over brutal killing and brutalization of dead bodies of 12 members of the local tribes by [...]

NAVINS ABILITY TO MISRULE BLACKENS RULE OF LAW: AN INSTANCE

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Greased by official advertisements, a compromising media tom-toms Navin Patnaik as the most able Chief Minister Orissa has had in her recent history. But visitors to these pages know that propaganda does not change the reality. Time comes, when corrupt practices adopted in administration, unveiled in the area of judicature, makes sure for [...]

ORIYA WRITER ADJUDGED BEST SCIENCE COMMUNICATOR

From the Editor

We have happy news to share.
Orissa’s well known writer and media commentator Prof. Mrinal Chatterjee, who is well known to the esteemed visitors to this site as our guest writer, has won the best paper award in the sixth National Science Communication Congress, held at Ahmedabad, Gujarat from 11-15 December [...]

MISCHIEF OF PLUTOCRACY AT KALINGA NAGAR: AMNESTY CONDEMNS ORISSA GOVERNMENT

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
The anti-people administration run by Naveen Patnaik in Orissa has been sharply censored by the Amnesty International in a recent statement. It has stated that justice continues to elude the victims of Kalinga Nagar massacre and that the Orissa Government has failed to fully address their concerns over displacement and threat to their [...]