Subhas Chandra Pattanayak The founder of Vajrayana school of Buddhism, Indrabhuti had created the name Jagannatha for Gurudev Buddha in Jnanasiddhi that began with “pranipatya jagannatham sarvajinavararchitam / sarvabuddhamayam siddhibyapinam gaganopamam//” (Jnanasiddhi: i, 1). Nowhere in Jnanasiddhi, he has used … Read more →
The 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 … Read more →
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, … Read more →
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak British trespassers could put their avaricious hands on the splendid soil of Orissa in 1803 only after the rest of India had gone into their ugly grip. They ruined the beautiful land so brutally that despite being … Read more →
Neither spiritualism nor sex was at the crux of Vidyapati’s popular songs in Maithili. They were probably authored to carry forward the Buddhist sociological concepts advanced by Orissa’s revolutionary poet Sri Jay Dev against Vedic imperialism.