ORISSA UNDER THE CLIMATE OF CRIME

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Orissa is under the climate of crime.
Chief Minister Navin Patnaik has dragged this splendid and traditionally peaceful land into the hot lap of capitalism and all the crimes that capitalism generates and instigates have now engulfed the State.
Administration has gone such astray that the people of Orissa are being compelled to pay for [...]

AJIT ADDS STRENGTH TO DISCOVERY OF TRUTH ON BUDDHA’S BIRTHPLACE

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
With this site exposing how Buddhists all over the world have failed to honor canonical instruction for paying homage to Gurudev Buddha in the place of his birth at least once in life, as they are misled by a historical mischief placing his birthplace in Nepal, there was a short-lived but acrimonious shrill [...]

MAHODADHI MUST REPLACE BAY OF BENGAL IN ORISSA REGION

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Describing how Orissa had attacked and subdued the Muslim Bengal, Dr. K. R. Quanungo writes in ‘The History of Bengal, Muslim Period’ at pp.48-52, that, Tughral Tughan Khan was no doubt out-generalled by the king of Orissa who had drawn the enemy far away from their frontier and must have concealed more than [...]

IT PORTENDS JUDICIAL ANARCHY

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
The lawyers of Berhampur have been brutally beaten up by Police as they were mounting collective pressure for establishment of a branch of Orissa High Court in that part of the State.
The lawyers of Sambalpur have already kept their demands for a branch of the High Court in their region on records.
Bhubaneswar has [...]

NEED INTEREST-FREE FINANCE? SATISFY A BJP MINISTER, LOOT AN OFFICIAL INSTITUTE

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Do you need heavy cash to invest in business? Do you want that there should be no interest charged for the large amount you would take? Do you find it impossible to obtain such interest-free finance from any nationalized /commercial Bank?
Do not worry. Satisfy a minister of Orissa specifically if he or she [...]

HOW DO YOU RATE THIS GOVERNMENT?

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Now I am not going to tell you how manufacturers of fake medicines have enjoyed political patronage when Navin Patnaik has been running the State Government.
I am not going to tell you how contractors have hijacked welfare projects under the umbrage of administration.
I am not going to tell you how with official help [...]

LAXMIPUR VERDICT: BJD IS WORSE THAN THE CONGRESS

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Laxmipur has delivered its verdict: BJD is worse than the Congress.
Result of the by-election to Orissa Assembly from this constituency, held because of midterm death of Congress MLA Anantram Majhi, has come out today.
Congress has retained the seat through Anant’s son Purnachandra Majhi, who was deliberately planted in anticipation of sympathy support, which [...]

PRIME MINISTER?! MY DOG SERVES MY INTEREST

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
After the last one of my pack of Dachshunds passed away at the age of 18, I have adopted Tommy, a female German Shepherd. She is around 18 months now.
When I am absent from my study, she guards it.
When I am busy in reading or writing, she delights in watching me.
I have [...]

“Internet Journalism is reshaping the freedom of press”

Orissamatters Representative-in-Chief Subhas Chandra Pattanayak speaks about media reforms in India, Orissa headlines and Price Rise, on Sambad Samikshya.
Video courtesy Subham Television, Dhenkanal.
Interview by advocate Diptish Prasad Pattanayak.
Date: March 31, 2008, 6-7pm
Click below to view Part 1 of the interview:
Transcripts (translated) follow:
DPP- Allow me the pleasure to introduce Sri Subhas Chandra Pattanayak who [...]

REPAIR THE DAMAGE DONE TO DEMOCRACY

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Mr. Maheswar Mohanty has resigned from the Speaker position following lady marshal Gayatri Panda’s allegation of sexual harassment against him.
Ms. Panda was admittedly facing disciplinary proceedings before raising such an allegation.
This is enough reason to suspect that her allegation might have been vitiated by motive to browbeat the Speaker under whose orders she [...]