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  • August 6, 2013
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Mother Orissa, if Yotsna is silent, wherefrom shall I get the words to console you?

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Mother Orissa is, this afternoon, bereft of Yotsna Rautray, her daughter of extraordinary creativity, whose role as an author was as humanitarian as ethical was her contribution to journalism. When a student of class eight, she had … Read more →

  • Posted in: art & culture, media, news, Obituaries, orissa, oriya, Uncategorized
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  • November 7, 2009
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ATTACK ON PRESS CONTINUES IN ORISSA: RULING PARTY STALWART NAMED IN FIR

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Severely injured Jagannath Bastia, Puri Correspondent of The Samaj, in his FIR on 6th before being shifted to a Bhubaneswar Hospital for bone fracture repair, has named ruling party stalwart Maheswar Mohany, a former Speaker and sitting … Read more →

  • Posted in: actionscript, administration, law and order, media, news, orissa, politics, Uncategorized
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  • November 4, 2009
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JOURNALISTS OF BHUBANESWAR PAY EPITAPHIC TRIBUTES TO GOPAL MISHRA

There are different organizations of Journalists stationed at Bhubaneswar. But they all were united on Tuesday evening to pay epitaphic tributes to deeply mourned Gopal Misra, who passed away in the evening of Sunday and whose cremation, witnessed by many … Read more →

  • Posted in: media, news, orissa, oriya, Uncategorized
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  • October 21, 2009
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CM NAVIN: BOTH THE ARCHITECT AND VICTIM, OBSERVES SAMPAD MOHAPATRA

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Eminent Journalist Sampad Mohapatra, in a note has expressed deep dismay over the official attempt to kill the zeal of journalists to unveil maladministration in Orissa. Visitors to these pages know, Laxman Choudhury, a rural reporter based … 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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