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Orissa Official Language Act has no Drive // Amendment along with Rules Suggested

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak As per decision in the Joint Action Committee, i.e. the Ministerial Committee on the implementation of Orissa Official language Act, 1954, linguist Dr.Debi Prasanna Pattanayak is to draft a Language Policy to be placed before it in … Read more →

HAVE THE AGRICULTURAL WORKERS GONE LAZY? NO. THEY HAVE LOST THEIR STAMINA UNDER SLOW STARVATION

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Wherever workers from neighboring States are available, agriculture is somewhat managed there. But rest of Orissa is suffering loss in agriculture as local workers are reluctant to work. Some allege that availability of rice at the rate … Read more →

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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