OFFICIAL VANDALISM ON SRI JAYA DEV IN ORISSA CONTINUES

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
People of Orissa are so loyal to their revolutionary poet Sri Jaya Dev that they have named the stairs of Sri Mandira, the temple of Lord Jagannatha at Puri as Baisi Pahacha in honor of the poet’s twenty-two love lyrics that later day compilers have captioned as Gita Govinda. But in Orissa [...]