AS POLITICAL NATIONALITY DWINDLES, KANDHAMAL RECAPITULATES TO COMMUNAL...
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Political nationality has become so irrelevant for Orissa Government that when a Christian communalist leader, John Dayal, was allowed free passage into Kandhamal, a former...
View ArticleCHANGE IN MEDIA STANCE REFLECTS LOSS OF PEOPLES’ CONFIDENCE IN ORISSA CM
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak If Chief Minister Navin Patnaik could be distinguished for any specific behavior that is his shying at the peoples of Orissa. As is evidenced in his visit to Kandhamal on...
View ArticleKANDHAMAL CONFLICT: ORISSA POLICE CHIEF IN THE TRAP OF CONFUSED CONCEPT
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Taking over from superannuated Director General of Police Sri Gopal Nanda, the new DGP Sri Man Mohan Praharaj has put priority on ending communal conflicts in Kandhamal....
View ArticleOFFICIAL NOTICE CALLING ATTENTION ON KANDHAMAL FAILED TO PROCEED
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak The ruling alliance’s calling attention notice on killing of Hindu religious revivalist Laxmananand Saraswati in Kandhamal and the consequent communal violence could not be...
View ArticleDEMOCRACY DEFILED: HOUSE OUSTS CONGRESS MEMBER FOR A WEEK; REALITY ENTOMBED
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Orissa Legislative Assembly has ousted Congress member Tarakant Bahinipati for seven days as on adoption of a treasury bench motion to suspend him the Speaker decided to...
View ArticleWHAT SHOULD THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DO?
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Quit if you can’t protect the minorities. This is what Justice Markandey Katju of the Supreme Court of India reportedly remarked on January 5, while a division bench headed by...
View ArticleKANDHAMAL IS NOT A CASE OF COMMUNALITY: IT IS A CASE OF NATIONALITY
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Kandhamal of Orissa is in hot headlines for enmity between the followers of two religions: Hindu and Christian. The politico executive and judicial administration wants us to...
View ArticleACTIVE PRACTICE OF RELIGION AND UNLIMITED ACCUMULATION OF PROPERTY IN PRIVATE...
A blatant ban on active practice of religion is most urgent as otherwise the country can never be saved from the worst of unrest, warned eminent scribe and social activist Subhas Chandra Pattanayak at...
View ArticleOne Italian Released, the Other in Crux of a Question the Government must Answer
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak Italian tourist Claudio Colangelo, held hostage since March 14 by Maoists, has been released at the place of his abduction in Kandhamal in the afternoon of March 25, in a hope...
View ArticleWe Need Such A Law
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak In March, the Additional Sessions Judge holding Fast Track Court No. 2, at Phulbani had acquitted 142 persons arrested by the Brahmunigaon police as their offense allegedly...
View ArticleHigh Court in Apparent Error in Pratyusha Case, as Naveen Patnaik is not...
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak The ruling BJD is de facto owned by Naveen Patnaik, whom all the members thereof know as their supreme master (‘the supremo’) and obey, exactly as my German Shepherd Dog knows...
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