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 →
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 →
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 →