Bhubaneswar Bureau Chairman of Bhasha Andolan, Orissa Subhas Chandra Pattanayak has, in a memorandum on June 7, moved the Odia Bhasha Pratisthan to initiate penal action against linguist Dr. Debi Prasanna Pattanayak, who, according to him, is guilty of illegal … Read more →
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Only those Indians, whom the Central Government views as paragons of virtues, are decorated with civilian awards like Padmashree. Dr. Debi Prasanna Pattanayk is decorated with Padmashree. In a recent post in these pages, I had written, … Read more →
Bhubaneswar Bureau If the Chief Minister is sincere in his approach, one may call it the first positive step towards governance of Orissa in Oriya; as on being invited by the Chief Minister, Bhasha Andolan leadership comprising Subhas Chandra Pattanayak … Read more →
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Like most people of Orissa I had also believed that linguist Dr. Debi Prasanna Pattanayak and his protégé Subrat Kumar Prusti, with Congress leader Rama Chandra Khuntia have fetched for us the “classical status” of our mother … Read more →
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Orissa is a land of PuraPalli. The word ‘Pura’ stands for the place(s) where the elites using Sanskrit as official language were residing and ‘Palli’ stands for the villages of Orissa where Pali was the language of … Read more →