Subhas Chandra Pattanayak On Gndhiji’s seventieth birthday in 1939, Albert Einstein had said: A leader of his people, unsupported by any outward authority; a politician whose success rests not upon craft nor the mastery of technical devices, but simply on … Read more →
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak When late lamented Janaki Ballav Patnaik was the Chief Minister of Orissa, I was his arch political rival in his constituency: Athgarh. Yet, it was he, on whose insistence, the Congress Party had made me its candidate … Read more →
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Twenty years ago, on March 23, 1995, when a student, Saswat Pattanayak had published his poem “Bhagat Singh” an excerpt of which I prefer to share with you. It reads: Why, Bhagat Singh, did you die? At … Read more →
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak My beloved Bhauja (wife of journalist Barendrakrushna Dhal) just passed away in a private clinic at Bhubameswar. I fail to describe the grief that has instantly engulfed me and my wife. Do not know how to console Barendrakrushna, … Read more →
By Saswat Pattanayak Comrade A B Bardhan (1924-2016) was not just the foremost communist mass leader of India who raised working class consciousness among millions through his oratory and organizational persistence, he was also the Marxist historian who accounted peoples’ … Read more →