Orissa CinemaThe festival of Goddess Durga as is being celebrated through worship of earthen images on streets and market corners in India is in reality aimed at killing the cult of Durga. Orissa’s mainstream broadsheet Dharitri had carried this observation of Sri Subhas Chandra Pattanayak fifteen years ago on 1 October 1995. SCP’s unique analysis being [...]
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By Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Buddha, in his birthplace Orissa, is worshiped in the form of Sri Jagannatha and Sri Jagannatha is evolved from Jaganta -Jaganmata of Orissa’s agro-tribes. On occasion of the festival of Jaganmata Durga, this article in Oriya, addressed to the Oriyas of the world, is meant to convey how had come this [...]
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(A Note from noted Journalist Prasanta Patnaik) Bhubaneswar, Sept. 22, 2009: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik today ordered a DIG-level probe into the arrest of journalist Laxman Choudhury by the Gajapti police on Sunday on charges of waging war against the State, and assured the delegation of journalists to ensure that justice will be done to [...]
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Subhas Chandra Pattanayak The austerity farce being staged by the ruling “holy cows” has come to be looked at with curiosity as the Prime Minister Mr. Man Mohan Singh’s Minister of State for External Affairs, Shashi Tharoor, untrained obviously in Congress hypocrisy, has, on Wednesday, failed to remain tamed in carrying out instructions sans reaction. [...]
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Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Why shouldn’t justice look justified, wonders one watching the cries of Narayan Patra, a senior citizen of Bhubaneswar over what he believes to be apparent protection of murderers of his daughter Kalyani in the High Court of Orissa. Kalyani’s husband Atmaram Sahu kas been convicted with life imprisonment for the murder by [...]
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Subhas Chandra Pattanayak For loot of Orissa mines, the Government of Orissa has suspended the Director of Mines, Rabindra Narayan Sahoo on September 16. But the delay in taking this minimum necessary action is so inordinate that the Vigilance Police, involved with the action, would do better to clarify as to who had protected Sahu [...]
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Subhas Chandra Pattanayak An organization in non-Government sector, styled as Basanti Trust with its headquarters under Chandrasekharpur P.S. of Bhubaneswar, has attracted public wrath as, after rescue of 24 young girls by the Police from its premises,the locals came to know that the girls were allegedly stationed there for sex exploitation. It eventually transpired that [...]
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Subhas Chandra Pattanayak The State government has been sleeping over the UGC scale of pay for College and University teachers in Orissa. The collective bodies of teachers have several times met the secretary and minister of higher education with their demands for the revised scale recommended by the UGC and dovetailed with the sixth Pay [...]
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Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Even as the incumbent Chief Minister is in his third consecutive term in Orissa, his Health Minister Prasanna Acharya has admitted that the department allotted to him is in disastrous disarray. Addressing the Orissa chapter of Cardiology Society of India at Bhubaneswar on September 12, he informed that the Public Service Commission [...]
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