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Alaya Mohanty passes away

theNEWSsyndicate Journalist Alaya Mohanty, under nephritic treatment, succumbed to cardiac arrest this morning. He was also a film producer of repute. His film Shunya Swaroopa (Oriya) had bagged national award as the best feature film in 1996. TV serials produced … Read more →

Cartoonist Kishore Rath succumbed to sudden cardiac arrest. Orissa lost a nice son

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Thought-provoking cartoonist Kishore Rath has succumbed to a sudden and very unexpected cardiac arrest last night in a government hospital at Bhubaneswar. In his demise, Orissa has lost a very nice son. He belonged by birth to … Read more →

Tributes to an unsung hero Sashi Bhusan Mohanty

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Orissa has given birth to many a persons that are paragons of human virtues. One such person Sashi Bhusan Mohanty has passed away on 18th this month while fighting COVID -19 in a private hospital at Bhubaneswar. … Read more →

Police Officers like Chittaranjan Patnaik should be posthumously honored in Official Gazette

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Versing Voice of the Proletariat, Rabi Singh, cremated with State Honor

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Revolutionary poet Rabi Singh, whose verses were the voice of the proletariat passed away Sunday morning to the total disheartening of the entire State of Orissa. He was cremated with total State Honor at Sati Chaura, the … 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