Subhas Chandra Pattanayak The first New Year Greetings I usually get was coming from my beloved friends Mrs. & Mr. Barendra Krushna Dhal. I miss that. Both of them – made for each other – followed each other in their … Read more →
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Orissa is a land of PuraPalli. The word ‘Pura’ stands for the place(s) where the elites using Sanskrit as official language were residing and ‘Palli’ stands for the villages of Orissa where Pali was the language of … Read more →
Dr.Sudhansu Dash No child is born with a mind. A child is born with a brain. Brain is the mechanism and mind is simply the ideology, the ideology which brain is fed by the society .Every society creates a mind … Read more →
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Linguistic Survey of India, conducted by Sir George Abraham Grierson, had a great contribution to creation of Orissa as India’s first linguistic State, eleven years ahead of independence. Neither Hindi, nor Bengali nor Telugu could vie with … Read more →
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Orissa Official Language (Amendment) Ordinance, 2016 was authored by bureaucracy on 21 May 2016 in a haphazard manner and was promulgated the same day. In a Bill form it was placed before the Legislative Assembly on 27 … Read more →