Factotums of Narendra and Naveen insult the founding father of Oriya Nation

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

It is sad that the protégés of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in their shameless competition to project their respective bosses as real rulers have shown blatant disrespect to the founding father of the motherland of the Oriya Nation, the great late Madhusudan Das – most revered Madhu babu – whom the Oriya people call Kula Gourav (the pride of their race) and the Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi had called his Guru, as revered to him as Leo Tolstoy.

From Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. LXVI, page 260, we can get what Gandhiji had told of Madhu babu.

Gandhiji had convened a national conference of educationists and who’s who of India’s freedom fighters subscribing to his ideals at Seagaon on 22nd October 1937. While elaborating his ideas in this conference, styled All India Educational Conference, Gandhiji had paid richest tributes to Madhu babu in the following words:

“The late Madhusudan Das was a lawyer, but he was convinced that without the use of hands and legs our brain would be atrophied and even if it worked, it would be a home of Satan. Tolstoy had taught the same lesson through many of his tales”, he had said.
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Protest against brutal attack on Press paralyzed the main traffic junction near Secretariat

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The main traffic junction near the Secretariat and on the road to Raj Bhavan popularly known as AG square was blocked by journalists in a protest for around two hours this afternoon against police pooh-poohing their allegation over brutal attack on media persons by the pet goons of pulpit traders.

A local news channel and the newspaper that has floated the channel claimed to have exposed how more than 50 pulpits of unit 1 ‘Hat’ (market) belonging to the government have vanished in course of their transfer from the GA department headed by the Chief Minister to BMC headed by a protégé of the Chief Minister. The media organization claimed that 52 pulpits where small daily traders should have been selling their commodities on payment of daily license fees have been illegally and off-the-record sold away to regular traders at a cost of Rs.20 lakhs each by musclemen that rule the roost in the market.

Against this backdrop, media persons were called into a conference by alleged leadership of the pulpit vendors in the forenoon. Soon it transpired that the conference was a pretense to zoom in on the reporting staff of the concerned media organization. They – a lady reporter and a cameraman – were singled out and brutally thrashed.
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Media persons rushed to the capital police station almost adjacent to the so-called press conference spot. But police pretended too busy for quick action. The frustrated press persons demonstrated against police inaction on the road in front of the PS and as no heed to their demand was noticed, they marched on to the AG square and resorted to road blockade.
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After two hours of reluctance to act against the goons, the Police Commissioner’s office intervened and told the journalists that the person concerned has been arrested, though for safety reasons they were not to show him to the agitators. The agitating journalists then dispersed.

PRESS is WE THE PEOPLE: Justice Indrajit Mohanty

Laxmi Prasad Pattanayak

When Legislature, Judiciary and Executive are created by the Constitution of India, the Constitution has not even mentioned of Press. Yet the Press is the mainstay of the Republic of India, as it is what the Preamble has so unambiguously described as “We the people”, said Justice Indrajit Mohanty, inaugurating the 8th annual conference of Orissa Juba Sambadik Sangha on December 31 at 6 pm in the Satabdi Bhavan, Cuttack.

Orissa Juba Sambadika Sangha

ORISSA MATTERS chief Subhas Chandra Pattanayak was the chief speaker. The topic for talk was ‘Role of mass media in contemporary India’.

Advocate Debasnan Das gave the introduction as Secretary of the Sangha, journalist Dipesh Kumar Mohapatra detailed how the members of his organisation have been linking media with the society in practical sense besides adhering to norms of journalism.

Patron of the organisation Sri Surendra Sahu presided over the function.

Cuttack Collector Nirmal Chandra Mishra, Orissa High Court Bar Association President Asok Kumar Mohapatra, industrialist Prabodh Kumar Mohanty spoke on the occasion.

Eminent persons such as Bipin Bihari Rath, Ms. Krushna Mohanty, Nageswar Patnaik, Ms. Sulochana Das, Kuna Tripathy, Dillip Srichandan, Prabhu Charan Mohanty, Bhala Chandra Mohanty, Ms. Duti Chand, Tapan Kumar Sahu and C. B. K. Mohanty were felicitated for excellent contribution to society in their respective fields, in the hands of Justice Mohanty.

The organisation’s annual souvenir Gyanajyoti was released also by Justice Mohanty.

President of the organisation, eminent photo journalist Padmalochan Mishra received the guests. Amongst others, eminent journalist and President of Utkalmani Newspaper Employees Association Sri Deviprasanna Nayak also graced the event.

Governance of Orissa in Oriya // Workshop also preferred ‘Oriya University’ in rejection of the proposal for ‘Oriya Open University’

(By arrangement with an Official Source)

Outstanding demand of Orissa’s language activists was for a dedicated and research-centric University of Oriya Language for imparting all round knowledge in Oriya, relevant to necessities of Orissa in particular and the country and the globe in general, and for equipping Oriya language with necessary ability to match the modern challenges and to make it the language of engagement and income, success and prosperity, over and above, taking all necessary academic steps to retrieve, preserve and enhance the excellence of this splendid language.

Ms. Sipra Mallick, then a ruling party member, had moved a private member’s Bill for Oriya University, in the Orissa Legislative Assembly, which she had withdrawn as the Government declared to bring out the Bill officially to create the University.

After withdrawal of the Bill, no official step was taken to honor the assurance given to the House.

The term ended and the ruling party was to face the people.

So, as a tactics for vote fetching, the ruling party placed in its manifesto 2014 that given the mandate, it would establish the Oriya University.

As elapsing time went barren, the Oriya Bhasa Sangram Samiti hereinafter called: Sangram Samiti, under the banner of which, the people of Orissa have been agitating for governance of the State in Oriya, took up the issue as its demand and it was apparently accepted, when the Government came to an agreement with the Sangram Samiti to implement the Orissa Official Language Act, 1954.
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Phani Mohanty’s STEALING OF CLOTHES stole hearts in Prasar Bharati Poets Meet

Phani Mohanty in my studyPrasar Bharati organized a Sarbabhasha Kavi Sammelan on the eve of Republic Day at Nagpur in Basant Rao Deshpandey Auditorium.

In the jam-packed hall, 23 poets representing 22 regional languages participated in the mega event. They recited their respective poems with translations thereof done and rendered for national appreciation.

Central Sahitya Akademi awardee eminent poet Dr. Phani Mohanty representing Oriya language recited an excellent poem captioned ‘Bastraharan (Stealing of Clothes), which was highly appreciated.

Dr.Rajendra Mishra had translated Dr. Mohanty’s poem into Hindi, which was also recited in the meet.

Here is the poem.
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Oriya Language created Orissa and therefore Orissa must be ruled by Oriya Language

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik seems to have developed a wrong notion that governance of Orissa in Oriya depends upon his mercy. His press-note of December 17 and full page display advertisement in major broadsheets of today force us to arrive at this apprehension.

In his December 17 press note it was declared that he had held a meeting with the five members of the ministerial committee on that day for the purpose of “strictly implementing the Orissa Official Language Act, 1954 in official and non-official level” to facilitate which a website has been floated by the government. In the full page multi-color advertisement in broadsheet dailies today, this is intriguingly missing.

The advertisement is designed to tell the people that Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has taken historical steps to save and develop Oriya language, and has enumerated the steps he has taken. This is blatant lie. Neither he nor his government has executed any single item claimed to be “historical” in the official advertisement. The entire advertisement is nothing but false propaganda. What a shame it is, that, the people of Orissa are taken for granted by their Chief Minister! Read more →

Navakalevara: Legends and reality

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

Legends are the most misguiding mischief aimed at superimposing lies on reality so that indigenous people of an occupied land are kept too dazzled to see the dark face of the rulers and the class of exploiters can keep its victims subjugated to its authority, while forcing them to forget the heroic history of evolution of their own philosophy of life, their own splendid spiritual realizations, their own socio-economic uniqueness, their own ancient culture, their own valorous past, their own way of social integration and their own civilization.

We see this mischief galore in the context of Navakalevara of SriJagannatha.

So, here, we are to rip apart the legends and bring the reality of the Navakalevara to light, as thereby alone we can reach the lost uniqueness of the people of Orissa.

We will use Puri Sankaracharya’s self-proclaimed authority over Navakalevara to proceed with our purpose.

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Samaja in Maze of Forgery: Two former Ministers of Orissa – Lingaraj Mishra & Radhanath Rath forged the WILL of Gopabandhu; Both benefitted till their death; SoPS continues to Loot

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak

The Oriya daily SAMAJA founded by late Utkalmani Pandit Gopabandhu Das, to which, out of their love and reverence for the great humanitarian leader, the people of Orissa had and have been giving their financial and moral support, is in a menacing maze of forgery and loot.

Sadly, two of Gopabandhu’s trusted men – Lingaraj Mishra and Radhanath Rath – who, because of being known so, had the opportunity of becoming cabinet ministers in Orissa, were the masterminds and/or makers of the forgery from which the paper is yet to be salvaged.

Both of them – Lingaraj and Radhanath – had partnered with each other in forging the last WILL of Gopabandhu to grab the Samaja, which being Gopabandhu’s paper was of superb credibility and the greatest political instrument of the day. They had performed this crime behind the screen of and in nexus with Servants of the People Society (SoPS), of which, while breathing his last, Gopabandhu was the Vice-President. Read more →