Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Historian Dr. Amiya Kumar Mohanty argues in his book ‘State and Government in Ancient Orissa’ that the main cause of Kalinga war was perhaps Ashoka’s desire to occupy the ports of Orissa. By using these ports, the … Read more →
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak The Government is claiming credit for avoidance of larger loss of human lives because of efficient disaster management. We disagree. Loss of human lives was of small numbers not because of disaster management, but because, the storm … Read more →
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak If Ms. Margareta Wahlstrom, Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) for Disaster Risk Reduction has truly said, “Orissa’s handling of the very severe cyclone will be a landmark success story in disaster management”, then perhaps her … Read more →
Saswat Pattanayak’s meticulous reports in the Asian Age on the killer cyclone that devastated Orissa in 1999 were incorporated in the first and the only speaking book on the subject co-authored by him and Adyapak Biswaranjan. The book was published … Read more →