Language Oriya and Creation of Orissa

This article shows how the people’s mother tongue Oriya was the cause behind creation of Orissa, India’s first linguistic State. This is carried by many newspapers of Orissa on the occasion of Utkal Divas, 2017.

ANTHEM OF BHASHA ANDOLAN

Subhas Chandra Pattanayak authored the Anthem of Bhasha Andolan, the first line of which – JANMANI JANMANI BHASHA JANANI, BHASHA JANANI – is practiced as the daily slogan of the movement. Nitidin, popular mainstream daily presented it to the general readers on the occasion of Mothers Day this year.

Here it is: