Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
Representative-in-Chief, OrissaMatters
I write because the peoples have the right to know. In these words Sri Subhas Chandra Pattanayak sums up his mission and position.
When a student, he had used his pen as the main weapon in his campaign against political misrule and bureaucratic malfeasances, in his birthplace of Tigiria by writing and publishing lithographed news-sheets styled as ‘Masal’, ‘Sata Katha’ and ‘Samachar’ produced, all by himself, with a hand-made pressure-plate. Now in senior age, he is using computer keyboard as his tool to foil plutocracy.
Incarcerated many times in public cause, he is the first person on records to have spotted transformation of India from democracy to plutocracy and has always stressed on equipping the people with information and ideas so that democracy may be revived. In this mission, he has abandoned a promising political life and adopted journalism as his real forte.
A renowned trade unionists amongst media persons, he had given leadership to Orissa Union of Journalists as its Secretary, National Union Of Journalists (India) as a special invitee to its National Executive and had founded the Forum of Freelance Journalists.
He has the penchant for amalgamating news with views in all his write-ups, aimed at assisting the society read between the lines.
Acclaimed as the first Web-Journalist to have ever been accredited to any Government in India, his funda of life, “On my mission unto the last”, is being reflected through Orissamatters.com. This site, he says, pertains to all that matters to the Oriyas of the world.
Books by Sri Subhas Chandra Pattanayak
1. Sri Jaya Devanka Baisi Pahacha
[A deeply researched disquisition on Sri Jaya Dev including translation of his love songs by Sri Subhas Chandra Pattanayak in equally lucid versess in Oriya]
Publisher: Bharat Bharati, Gajapati Nagar, Sutahat, Cuttack-753001
2. Sabitapa’n Kabita
[Poems of Subhas Chandra Pattanayak on his wife Sabitarani]
Publisher: Bharat Bharati, Gajapati Nagar, Sutahat, Cuttack-753001
3. Smrutirekha
[A poetic depiction of a saga of living tally that was lost to the hero]
Publisher: Bharat Bharati, Gajapati Nagar, Sutahat, Cuttack-753001
4. Vidyapatinka Prema Geet
[A compilation of selected pieces of love songs of Maithili poet Vidyapati, translated by Subhas Chandra Pattanayak into Oriya in equally lucid poetic form, along with his scholarly disquisition on Vidyapati]
Publisher: Bharat Bharati, Gajapati Nagar, Sutahat, Cuttack-753001
5. Singhavalokanare Biju Patnaik
[Subhas Chandra Pattanayak had confronted Biju Patnaik with his black deeds when he was the 2nd time Chief Minister of Orissa through his acclaimed column ‘Singhavalokana’. This book is a compilation of those reports.]
Publisher: Bharat Bharati, Gajapati Nagar, Sutahat, Cuttack-753001
6. Singhavalokana
[A compilation of Subhas Chandra Pattanayak’s celebrated column ‘Singhavalokana]
Publisher: Bharat Bharati, Gajapati Nagar, Sutahat, Cuttack-753001
7. Doora Adoora
[A compilation of Subhas Chandra Pattanayak’s column ‘Akasmika Pratikriya’]
Publisher: Pratishruti, 2RA 60, Unit 9, Bhubaneswar 751022
8. Animadversion
[A compilation of Subhas Chandra Pattanayak’s selected postings in orissamatters.com]
Publisher: Santosh Publications, Kanchan, Gajapati Nagar, Sutahat, Cuttack-753001