During second world war, Biju Patnaik and his wife Gyan played crucial role in air dropping medicines and supplies for soldiers and also evacuating Indians to safety from war ravaged Burma. During India’s Freedom struggle , Biju Babu gave shelter…

The President of India Shri Pranab Mukharjee inaugurated the “Bicentenary celebration of the heroic Paika Rebellion of Odisha, a valiant uprising of Paikas against the British rule” organised by the Ministry of Culture here today. Minister of Tribal Affairs Shri…
If he wasn’t born in Odisha on this day of 28th April exactly 169 years ago, then in all probability we would be reading and speaking Bengali today. He is no one, but our UTKALA GOURABA (The Pride of Odisha)…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday met the descendants of historical Paika Rebellion martyrs, who undertook an armed rebellion against the British rulers in Odisha in 1817. He felicitated the families of freedom fighters at Raj Bhawan here in presence…
Many thanks to my friend Dillip Babu who sent me a PDF copy of an autobiography – NILAKANTHA GRANTHABALI. Written in my mother tongue Odia it is a self Collection of memories of Pandit Nilakantha Das, a freedom fighter, social…
Finance minister Arun Jaitley, in his budget speech, announced to commemorate the Paika Rebellion, an armed uprising against the British East India company in Khurda area of Odisha in 1817 bringing cheers among people across the state. “Two-hundred years ago…
Odisha will soon get a 29 feet high martyrs memorial pillar at the Freedom Fighters gonad in the state capital here. The announcement in this regard was made by Cuttack MP Bhartuhari Mahatab, who is also president of the All India…
Few days back (december 25) on the occasion of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Bajpayee’s 92nd birthday and good governance day celebration, a road at Mehul Cinema Circle, Mulund (West) was named after Utkalamani Gopabandhu Das of Odisha by BJP Mumbai…