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  • January 10, 2016
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Nabakalebara: Legends and Reality (Book Review)

By Saswat Pattanayak In this era of two-minute research noodles made viral through smart memes and quick tweety wits, Subhas Chandra Pattanayak’s “Nabakalebara: Legends and Reality“ (Shabdasparsha, 2015) is not one that everyone would probably want to read. I will not therefore pitch … Read more →

  • Posted in: art & culture, Buddha Jagannatha, orissa, oriya, World of Letters
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  • May 23, 2015
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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 … Read more →

  • Posted in: Animadversion, art & culture, Buddha Jagannatha, Editorials, history, news, orissa, oriya, politics, Uncategorized
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  • February 3, 2012
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New Light on Sri Jaya Dev’s Use of Ancient Oriya in His Lyrics

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak I will present a person, who is trying to improve upon what I have said on Sri Jaya Dev’s language. HE is an active participant in painting competitions and science exhibitions. He is a B.Tech degree holder … Read more →

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  • July 18, 2009
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Orissa Impact on Vidyapati

Neither spiritualism nor sex was at the crux of Vidyapati’s popular songs in Maithili. They were probably authored to carry forward the Buddhist sociological concepts advanced by Orissa’s revolutionary poet Sri Jay Dev against Vedic imperialism.

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  • October 28, 2008
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KALI POOJA OF ORISSA IS NOT DIWALI

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Kali Puja (Ceremony of Kali) of Orissa is not Diwali or the festival of lamps, as some modern Oriyas tend to take. It reminds us Oriyas of the battle of our matriarch tribes against Vedic imperialists, specifically … 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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