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Posts in Category ‘Obituaries’

  • February 3, 2020
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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 →

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  • August 19, 2018
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Atalji: An insightful obituary in Pratigyan TV

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Here I prefer to present an insightful obituary on Atal Bihari Vajpayee whose sad demise has brought to memory a period of Indian politics that shall continue to generate interest in how Indian democracy metamorphosed into plutocracy. … Read more →

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  • October 2, 2017
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Gandhiji was born never to die

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 →

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  • April 21, 2016
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Homage on Death Anniversary: The Yet Not Known J.B.Patnaik

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 →

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  • March 24, 2016
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BHAGAT SINGH : HIS RELEVANCE

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 →

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WHY ORISSA, NOT ODISHA?

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

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