TIGIRIA SAMMAN CONFERRED ON ILLUSTRIOUS SONS OF THE SOIL

(Pictorial input from Harekrushna Pattanayak, Tigiria) Tigiria Samskuti Parisad, hereinafter called the Parisad, founded by former Member of Parliament representing Orissa in the Rajyasbha, Subas Mohanty and young intellectuals of Tigiria, honored three of the illustrious sons of the soil on 28 December 2011 with Pranab Kishore Pattanayak in the chair. Eminent persons from all [...]

To Relations and Family Friends Asharani Becomes Omnipresent as Twelve Day Long Funeral Rites Come to an End

(Pictorial Inputs from Laxmi Prasad Pattanayak, Amulyaratna Das and Nigamananda Dash) Funeral rites of Asharani Pattanayak ended on the twelfth day of her transformation into omnipresence on 27 December after obsequies at her native place Tigiria, when the tenth and eleventh day rites were performed at Bhubaneswar, where she passed away on the 16th. Her [...]

Odissi gone into Guinness Records Despite Filth Created by Orissa Government

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak with pictorial input from Aradhana Misra Orissa Government has pathetically failed in preserving, protecting and projecting the true history of Odissi dance, which, with 555 artists performing for 28 minutes at a stretch at the Kalinga Stadium of Bhubaneswar, on 23rd December, has gone into Guinness Book of World Records. A dance [...]

Lokpal Bill: The Hoodwinking Art Contrived to Smash Mass Awakening against Corruption and Maladministration

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Mrs. Sonia Gandhi’s close friend Ottavio Quattroche, whose black connection had blackened Rajiv Gandhi so filthily that the “Mr.Clean” Prime Minister had to get out of office under the stink of Bofors kickbacks, could not be punished, because the CBI withdrew its case against him with Mrs. Gandhi ruling the roost as [...]

ATBN Advocates’ Association Celebrates Foundation Day

(Photos from Laxmi Prasad Pattanayak) Advocates from the four Ex-States – Athgarh, Tigiria, Baramba and Narsingpur (ATBN) – belonging to Athgarh Sub-Division in the District of Cuttack, celebrated today the 17th foundation day of ATBN Advocates’ Association in the NALCO guest house auditorium at Bhubaneswar with F.B.Rath, its President, in chair. Sarat Kumar Panda, President [...]

Unuttered Yet Unanswered A Question of Late Asharani Pattanayak

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak My mother Asharani, the last daughter-in-law of Ex-State Tigiria’s last Rautroy (hereditary chief of the royal army till the State merged with India), the revered Late Jagabandhu Rautroy Pattanayak and wife of late Nishanatha Pattanayak, who despite being a member of a Mahatrana privileged family (hereditarily privileged to possess property without paying [...]

Swargadwara Must First Be Freed From Biju Patnaik’s Posthumous Encroachment

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Posthumously Biju Patnaik has emerged a greater danger to Orissa than when he was alive. Not only almost all the welfare programs and mass concerned institutes are being named/renamed after him, but also public places are being arbitrarily used to erect his statues for keeping the political sky of Orissa shrouded under [...]

MUFP Condemns Attack on Media Persons in Chhendipada and Demands Immediate Arrest of Attackers and Compensation to the Affected Scribes

Media Unity for Freedom of Press (MUFP) condemns the brutal attack on media persons who were deliberately targeted by a mob during the public hearing for the Mahaguj colliery at Chhendipada in Anugul district on Thursday. According to eye-witness accounts and newspaper reports, media persons who were covering the violence that erupted during the public [...]

The Dangerous Trend Continues: Online Journalist Attacked in Pro-Adani Public Hearing Camp

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Orissa’s politico-executive climate is favoring the unsocial packs to attack reporters and cameramen anywhere anytime to intimidate the Press that increasingly is exposing the anti-people activities of administration. Starting from clamping of sedition charges on upright journalists by the police to physical assault by trade operators through hired goons has become norm [...]

Mili Panda Matter: Essential Need is Elimination of Judicial Blunder

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Orissa High Court has done the best by quashing the cognizance in Mili Panda matter. But yet, essential need is elimination of judicial blunder. Mili Panda by name is known to every conscious citizen of Orissa, because she stands synonymous with withstanding the tortures that a vindictive Government inflicts. She is the [...]

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