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PUNISHMENT WILL NOT END CONTEMPT, JUDICIAL INTROSPECTION MAY

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Every Indian who loves democracy is shocked over throwing of shoes by a lady litigant at Justice Arijit Pasayat of the Supreme Court of India when he was hearing a case involving the lady on Mach 20. … Read more →

TOP OFFICERS ON TETHER: HIGH COURT REFUSES TO WAIVE PUNISHMENT

BETTER STILL IS TO PUNISH THE COLLABORATORS Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Secretary Madhusudan Padhi,IAS and Director Suman Mohapatra, OES of Higher Education under Government of Orissa are refused the luxury of waiver on cash penalty and jail in default imposed on … Read more →

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