A CONNUNDRUM THAT HITS A DGP AS WELL AS A STATE

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
A team of police officers from Rajsthan is camping in Orissa to arrest its Director general of Police (DGP)(Homeguards) Mr. Bidya Bhusan Mohanty (BBM) under allegation that he has helped his son Bitihotra Mohanty (BM) jump parole. BM was jailed in Rajsthan, convicted for having raped a foreign woman there in a hotel. [...]

EVEN A NON-ORIYA CONTRACTOR HAS HIS VASSALS IN NAVEENRAJ

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
In these pages placed earlier are observations on how the Naveen regime has provided non-Oriya minesmongers and landgrabbers with every opportunity they need to exploit Orissa. But the Public Accounts Committee of Orissa Legislative Assembly is now grasping how even a non-Oriya contractor has his vassals in Naveenraj and how they have sabotaged [...]

MARIK MATTER GETS MURKIER

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Mr. Sanjiv Marik, supended Inspector General of Police-cum-Director of Orissa Police Academy, has filed two different cases of defamation against Dharitri and Praggativadi in a primary court in Bhubaneswar. About his nexus with Bihari underworld they have published wrong reports, he has alleged.
Director general of Police Amaranand Pattanaik, reexamining the report of Crime [...]

THIS IS WHERE WE NOW STAND

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
A single company ITC produces in India many brands of cigarettes that compete with each other inasmuch as none of the ads of a brand ever mentions a word of praise for the other. They seem to be archrivals. But their sale proceeds go to the same manufacturer. A question may arise as [...]

IIT IS NOT ESSENTIAL, IRRIGATION IS

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Politicians, who have, by assuring our peoples to safeguard their interests, got their votes; but once in power, have willfully forgotten their pledge, and have collectively strangulated Orissa, now know that the silent victims of their misrule will silently terminate their existence in power. Therefore they need a way to escape.
The only way [...]

Habit Belief & Law. Its time to Change!

In December 2004, Orissamatters had conducted an investigation into the fabric of secularism that was on the path of erosion, thanks to the religious color with which our state buildings were being painted. The usual administrative rationale then offered was that the images of Gods/Godesses were meant to preserve the beauty of the structures.
After more [...]

SANJIV MARIK SUSPENDED; BUT DGP IS INCONCLUSIVE

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Inspector General of Orissa Police Mr. Sanjiv Marik, while heading the Orissa Police Academy, has been put under suspension on May 18, following partial reaffirmation of the correctness of the Crime Branch report by the Director General of Police Amarananda Pattanaik after a baffling month of vacillation.
When Mariks nexus with the underworld was [...]

DGP AMARANAND IS IN A PREDICAMENT

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Director General of Orissa Police Amarananda Pattnaik is in a predicament.
He is pressed upon to conduct a fresh enquiry on an Inspector General of Police Mr. Sanjiv Mariks connections with the underworld.
If he finally agrees with the original police report that Marik was hand-in-glove with a gang of criminals from his home [...]

TATHAGAT IS RIGHT

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

In a signed editorial on May 11, editor of Orissas well-read broadsheet Dharitri, Mr. Tathagat Satpathy has preferred irrigation to an IIT in Orissa.
“Put priority on providing water to agricultural lands instead of spending money for IIT, so that the Oriyas, basically agriculturists as they are, will earn enough money to afford high-tech [...]

MESSAGE OF THE LAND OF LAXMIBAI

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Mass action could never have been more majestic than what has happened in U.P.
The people of this land of Laxmibai have emphatically rejected the agents of plutocracy - the Congress, the SP and the BJP -in the just concluded Assembly elections and have given clear mandate to BSP, the party of the Dalits, [...]