Oriya in Crisis: A Linguist against the basic need of the Language

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Linguistic Survey of India, conducted by Sir George Abraham Grierson, had a great contribution to creation of Orissa as India’s first linguistic State, eleven years ahead of independence. Neither Hindi, nor Bengali nor Telugu could vie with … Read more →

Orissa and Oriya Language: Must we retrieve the Mana

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak The first freedom movement of India – armed revolution begun by Jayee Rajguru in 1803 metamorphosing into the first non-cooperation movement led by Buxi Jagabandhi Bidyadhar Mohapatra in 1817 – had severely mauled the British in the … Read more →

When CM’s PS is more powerful than the State’s CS, it is Anarchy

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Orissa Government did not intervene when Kanak TV subjected the Chief Minister to a competition, styled ‘Odisha Power List – 2016’. As was suspected Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik was declared the most powerful. By using ETv, Chief … Read more →

The Dengue Menace: Chief Minister should explain why his Govt. has kept the 2003 Act inconsequential

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Nothing new I am going to say. I am going to repeat what I have said repeatedly earlier. To save the city’s inhabitants and visitors from mosquito menace and from pernicious pollution, Orissa Legislature had stipulated in … Read more →