21 | September | 2010 | Orissa Matters

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Polavaram is Anti-National-Integration: BJD is Right in Opposing It

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Mother Nature had taken millions of years to create iron, bauxite and other precious ores. It is wrong on part of any government elected for five years to exhaust this natural wealth hand-in-glove with private industries, completely … Read more →

Arrest of Bikash Swain: A Suspected Step to Intimidate Free Press

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak The media community is feeling unsafe under the climate of crime cultivated against the Press in the present regime. The climate is so anti-Press that the Police are encouraged to torture any person connected with media under … Read more →

In these pages, the English spelling of the name of our motherland and mother tongue will remain Orissa and Oriya as before, instead of changing into Odisha and Odia.

Law has changed Orissa and its language Oriya to Odisha and Odia in English respectively. This is a very irresponsible law created by politicians having no knowledge on and devotion to classical uniqueness of Oriya language. When this bad law was on the anvil, we had opposed the proposal through several articles in these pages on grounds shown therein. And, when finally the law was created, we took it as an act of stupids. We stick to our observation and vow not to honor the bad law, come what may. For us, the classical uniqueness of our mother tongue Oriya is more important than the law enacted to change it. So, here we shall continue to use the words Orissa and Oriya notwithstanding enforcement of the law that has wrongfully changed them to Odisha and Odia. This is why this site will continue as orissamatters.com instead of converting into odishamatters.com on the strength of our devotion to the mother tongue which no law can change. -Editor