Orissa

4th Convocation Address by Subroto Bagchi at NIT Rourkela,Orissa

This is must read ....Amazing....

For more ...

http://www.mindtree.com/docs/Convocation_Address_at_NIT.pdf

Tansen Singh Live (Video)

Here is a nice live video from oriyamusic.com

1. Felicitation To Tansen Singh & A Bhajan
2. Keri Keri Suna Duba Lo Sajani [ Mrs. Riti Mohanty ]
3. Aakhi Aakhi Laajara Jharana Aakhi [ Tansen Singh ]
4. Saagara Kule Dine Dekhili [ Tansen Singh ]
5. Bhasa Megha Mun Je Bhasi Jae [ Prashant K Sahoo ]
6. Chanda Na Tume Taara [ Tansen Singh & Riti Mohanty ]
7. Nupura Kanhiki Mun Bandhili [ Tansen Singh ]
8. Sanibara Dina Mon Bhaujanka Mana [ Mrs. Riti Mohanty ]
9. Meeta Tume Bhala Paee Bhuli Ta Jibani [ Tansen Singh ]
10. Sambalpuri Dance [ Miss Prerana Pradhan ]
11. Arey Mon Lachakwali Rushi Tu Jaana [ Tansen Singh ]
12. Mun Je Eka Pagala Bhanra Parichaya Mote Maagana [ Tansen Singh ]

Cheers..

Suresh Behera

Watch Orissa

Watch Adivasi (Tribal ) Life

Watch Odissi Video

 

Please do not forget to put your comments...This is something awsome...

Always for you...!

Suresh Behera

Mondei : A Tribal Carnival

 

A carnival that announces the beginning of the annual festival of tribal people in remote India (Nabarangpur, Orissa). Mondei.
Camera: Deba and me
Assistant: Biju

 

 

Credit goes to Video team.

Suresh Behera

Oriya Bhagabata and Utkala Prasanga

A nice comment by Rashmita ..Thank you for information.

Not sure, how to post in orissa blog. But here are the links to Oriya bhagabata and Utkala prasanga I visit regularly.

http://orissagov.nic.in/oriya/index.htm

http://orissagov.nic.in/e-magazine/e-magazine.htm

 

ସୁେରଶ େବେହରା (Suresh Behera )

NON-STOP Oriya Song

WOW..NON-STOP Oriya Song ....This is somthing most wanted...
Have a fun guy..Lots more good things are coming up...

Suresh Behera

Bangalore Oriya Team...

From Bangalore Oriya Team...

We at Global Oriya have always tried to bring to you, the Global Citizen staying away from the home state, positive news about our dear state because we have felt that it’s easy to feel negative, pessimistic and resigned seeing, hearing and reading all the negative news from various sources which always put Orissa as the state of poor, malnourished and destitute people. It’s important to feel proud, positive and optimistic about a certain thing before we can get the enthusiasm to identify ourselves with that. However, it’s also equally important to know the challenges faced to feel the motivation, arouse the desire and derive the energy to fight for its cause and ultimately improve it. Let’s spare a thought on the things that could have gone the way we want, but haven’t.

1.      The much talked about IISc originally proposed to be established in Bhubaneswar has now shifted to Kolkata and Punjab.

2.      Government of India recently announced that the IA has no plans to connect Bangalore with Bhubaneswar. The state Govt has no time to contact and prevail upon private airlines for such facility.

3.      Barabati stadium was once praised by Clive Llyod as one of the finest stadiums in the country. But when has Cuttack last hosted a match? Places like Nagpur have hosted number of matches in a single year now.

4.      First time in several years not single player from Orissa finds a place in the Duleep trophy squad.

5.      There is no representation from Orissa at the centre except a solitary member .

6.      The Times of India did a survey on the potential tier 2 cities for call centre growth. While neighbouring Vishakhapatnam finds a place in it, Bhubaneswar does not. Even NASSCOM always gives pride of place to other destinations like Pune, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Baroda, Indore as the potential IT growth centres. They never mention Bhubaneswar as one of such tier-2 centers.

Let’s all remember that nothing comes for free and we need to fight for our rights. We need to be vigilant and put our energy in right areas. With that sober thought, let’s enjoy a few good news on Orissa.

-          ORISSA AIIMS GETS CENTER’S NOD

-          ORISSA LEVERAGES BEST PRACTICES FROM OTHER STATES

-          RUSSIAN STEEL MAJOR PLANS MEGA STEEL PLANT IN GOPALPUR

-          JAY PANDA RENOMINATED TO RAJYA SABHA

Read the details of all these news at our website http://www.globaloriya.com.

Regards,
Global Oriya Team

Pseudo-swamis, Social workers, and Religious leaders

Here is one awesome political explanation by Markandeswar bhai to Mr Sachi....My collage say this more negative inclination towards politics.....But how far no answer...Well,I  am folding my hand ...did i say anything ;)

Dear Sachi babu,
    Namaskar.  First of all, I congratulate you for initiating an internet political forum for the Oriyas
living around the world.  I have read most of the reasonable messages and definitely liked some of
the great literary pieces and logical arguments on the latest issues.  The issues would change without any solution, and new issues would sprout in.  The debates are interesting enough to please most of us, whether interested in politics as a profession or as a past time. The truth is, when there is a war against the government, patriotism wakes up like the legendary Kumbhakarna, and that is how there are discussions. At all other times, it sleeps well, because of a fateful curse, allowing the power to be in the hands of professional politicians. That is what I, as a common man think about the esoteric subject of practical politics.  
     

I would never consider myself to be a person qualified to speak about this human branch of governing each other.  My posting in this learned forum is based on my incomplete understanding from several books on the philosophical aspects of politics, and should not be confused with the now existing need of putting fellow humans in trouble and then making the efforts of uplifting them.  These days, the names of �swamis�, scientists, religious leaders are all invoked in the name of politics. 

The pseudo-swamis, social workers, and religious leaders love it.  Therefore, I may be excused for making the following unpalatable comments.  There are not lesson to be learned by the intellectuals who studied the subject as a curriculum, or are involved in �real life� politics, but it is a reminder to the common peoples� tastes, forgotten by time and necessity. For impletons like I am, the English word �politics� has a much broader meaning than the common denominator, 'rAjanIti'. Writing a genealogy for its activities or fruits, the good or bad results
obtained from its application in ruling others, or be ruled by some, would be futile. But its origin can be assumed to have been taken birth when the first man/woman became jealous of the larger size of the hunt by his/her neighbor, and in a hidden rage tried to control him/her without showing any visible signs of anger or hatred.
 

One of the oldest preserved records is 'The Government by Philosophers' by a Greek philosopher
named Plato, who tried to explain the realities of politics about 2400 years ago.  His books, often
written as dialogues, contain elements of religion, science, of a political system and of legislation. 
He was a tough warrior, sportsman, versed in empirical sciences and literature, a sportsman, acquainted with arts and crafts, and a well traveled salesman.  He wrote, "Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to
the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their
evils, -no, nor the human race, as I believe, and then only will our state have a possibility of life, and behold the light of the day".   
 

Later, the other philosopher Aristotle's 'politics' written about 2300 years ago, dealt with the governances of both city states and the common men as social groups.  The arguments proposed in his Politics-book IV are strong weapons in the hands of all defenders of democracy.  In the same book he admits that the group of men noble enough to govern solely for the best interest of people at large, are rare and hardly to be found.  From his book-I, people quote the popular statement, and yet out of context,"Hence it is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal".
 

The rest of the statements following this are never read by even the so-called learned scholars in
Political Science.  In our understanding, the entire Republic of Plato or the Politics of Aristotle
simply boils down to the present day 'politics' with the wrongly painted picture- dirty politics. Later, Machiavelli, in his book the �Prince�, written around 1514, did not define much about the
broader aspects of politics.  He narrowed it down to personal advices for sovereigns.  The Prince
contains advices on how to become successful, how to achieve and retain power, and how to render political adversaries harmless and to check dissatisfied people.The book is old not as old as the Art of War (China) or Kautilya's Arthashastra (India).  As a statesman, Machiavelli was a failure.  As a philosopher, he was disputable, but as a writer he was magnificent. Kautilya's Arthashastra was probably written around three hundred years B.C.E.  This is politics too, but for Kautilya; �artha� was wealth and not just the meaning of something.  He considered
wealth as the chief end of life, and all other prosperities, such as spiritual and artistic, depends upon a strong economic foundation.  It is wrong to mix the Dharmashastras, and Arthashastra together, and Kautilya knew it very well.  If one reads his book, he/she will find all other texts written on politics have cleverly borrowed ideas from this politician of ancient India. If somebody is interested in the philosophy of politics, the Arthashastra called as science (biJNAna) by Kautilya, consists of 15 books, 150 chapters, 180 chapters with a total of 6,000 slokas.  All of the following are in the preface of his Book 1, and are a part of politics, past or present, necessary for  dministering a kingdom, a city, a group, or even a very small family."The end of sciences; association with the aged;restraints of the organs of sense; the creation of ministers; the creation of councilors and priests; ascertaining by temptations of purity or impurity in the characters of ministers; the institutions of spies; protection of parties for or against one's own cause in one's own state; winning over the factions for or against an enemy's cause in an enemy's state;
the business of council meeting; the mission of envoys; protection of princes; the conduct of a
prince kept under restraint; the duties of a king; duty towards the harem; personal safety". There is one word of caution.  Acquiring all the knowledge on politics may make one look like Kautilya,
Krishna, or BhiSma, and yet at the same time the learned politician would never qualify of  becoming a king or a president.  The ruthless nature of administering a kingdom, a state, or a country will never be the domain of the learned political philosophers. 
 

To summarize in one sentence, someone has already commented that politics is simply polite tricks. Everybody thinks he/she can handle it, until the cause leading to any failure in that profession materializes at the end.  There have been no exemplary politicians in any of the historical records of the world, unless the mythological Krishna of Mahabharata is taken
into account.  Any moral advice on politics is probably baseless for the present day politicians. 

They are completely free from any questioning by their own consciences.  A pure evil can possess a pure mind, although it would be an anti-thesis of the pure mind of the good.  However, I would never say that all politicians are evil.  Many have good intentions but are caught in the quagmire of theoretical speculations.  In India or Orissa, an opposition party lives with the intrinsic qualities of opposing every action of the party in power.

Now coming back to the politics of Orissa, we may ask the question: why should the public attack the military police and kill one of them?  There would be many logical and illogical but politically correct answers.  As blinds leading the blinds, whether poor or rich, living in Orissa, India, or abroad, we are probably still blind. 

In my humble opinion, politics is not fun,perhaps not lucrative as a profession, and its actions
are never reasonable within the power hungry humans known as political rivals.  On the other hand, the rules of politics are very simple, involving either acceptable logic to control the intellectuals or
simple actions of benevolence to control the rational but undereducated mass.

With regards,
Markandeswar Panda