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5 unusual facts about Oriya


Biju Patnaik

Biju Patnaik (Oriya:ବିଜୁ ପଟ୍ଟନାୟକ; 5 March 1916 – 17 April 1997) was an Indian politician and Chief Minister of Odisha for two terms.

Manbhumi dialect

Apart from this south western speakers are heavily influenced by Singhbhumi Oriya, which is a dialect of Oriya spoken in Singhbhum region.

Oriya

Oriya language, an Indian language, belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family

Sarthak TV

SARTHAK TV is a popular Indian General Entertainment Channel broadcasting in the regional language Oriya language

It is best known for serving its viewers with a mix of exclusive entertaining content, not limited to mega serials/daily soaps like other Oriya channels.The main reason for the success of SARTHAK TV is its share of different exclusive shows like serials, movies, reality shows and music.


Arpita Mukherjee

Bande Utkala Janani is one of her most critically acclaimed Oriya movie.

Baleswar

Baleswari Oriya, a dialect of Oriya spoken in Balasore, Bhadrak and Mayurbhanj districts of Orissa, India

Baleswari Oriya

Baleswari Oriya spoken in Mayurbhanj are more similar and have impact of tribal twang and northern Baleswar regions have a typically different accent and little Bengali impact.

Bhima Bhoi

Bäumer, Bettina and Johannes Beltz 2010 (eds.), Verses from the Void: Mystic poetry of an Oriya saint, New Delhi: Manohar Publishers.

Biju Patnaik

Biju Patnaik set up Kalinga tubes, Kalinga Airlines, Kalinga Iron work, Kalinga Refractories and the Kalinga, a daily Oriya Newspaper.

Chota Char Dham

Buoyed by "religious tourism" and by the rise of a conservative Hindu population compelled by sites that speak to the existence of an all-India Hindu culture, the Chota Char Dham has become an important destination for pilgrims from throughout South Asia and the diaspora, particularly Bengalis, Marwaris, Oriyas, Marathis, Gujaratis, Delhites and people from Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand.

Culture of Odisha

The name of Prashanta Nanda would always come while dealing with Oriya Film Industry.

Dilip Tirkey

Dilip Tirkey was born to Vincent Tirkey an Oraon, Adivasi and former Oriya hockey player and Regina Tirkey on 24 November 1977.

Durga Puja in Odisha

The earliest Sarbojonin Durga Puja was reportedly held in the Kazi Bajaar area of the city in 1832 by both Oriya and Bengali employees of the East India Company.

Fish curry

Machher Jhol and or Machher Ghonta a traditional Bengali and Oriya fish curry.

Gender neutrality in genderless languages

In Maithili, Bengali, Assamese, Oriya and Nepali, there are different nouns for professions, but they are not commonly used, so these languages have become gender-neutral.

Gourahari Das

One of the leading Oriya fiction writers, Gourahari Das was born on October 9, 1960 in Sandhagada village of Bhadrak district of Orissato Gajendra Prasad Das and Smt.

Gunupur

The major languages spoken in the region are Oriya or Odia (as substituted by the 96th amendment to Indian constitution), Telugu and Tribal languages like Soura and Kui.

Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination

IIT-JEE is conducted only in English and Hindi, making it harder for students where regional languages, like Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Urdu, Oriya, Bengali, Marathi, Assamese or Gujarati, are more prominent.

Jagatsinghpur district

The district (smallest in size among the 30 districts in Odisha) has produced some of the most famous names in Oriya and Indian literature: Sarala Dasa, Birakishore, Gopal Chhotaray, Pratibha Ray and Bibhuti Patnaik, for example.

Jagdalpur

Praphul Kumari Devi died in 1936 in London and her elder son Maharaja Pravir Chandra Bhanj Deo, first Oriya ruler of Bastar and the 20th Maharaja of Bastar, ascended the throne in 1936 as a minor.

Jajpur

From time immeorial Jajpur has remained the epi centre of cultural awakening.Besides that the district has immense contribution to odia literature.The prominent literary figures of the state like Bidagdha Kabi Abimanyu Samanta Singhar,Kabi Manjula Krushna Prasad Basu, Braja Sundar Das (Freedom Fighter and one of the makers of Modern Odisha ), Birupakshya Kar, dramatist Kamapal Mishra(Writer of First Oriya Movie Sita Bibaha)are son of the soil.

Jeremiah Phillips

He and Eli Noyes were moved from Calcutta and stationed at Majurbhanj, Orissa, where the Baptists from England had already started their work among the Oriya.

Kolleru Lake

The royal Oriya army general sacrificed his own daughter to propitiate Gods and ensure his success against Muhammadan and her name was "Perantala Kanama".

Two copper plates of the early Pallava dynasty have been found in the lake, tracing its history to Langula Narasimha Deva (Langulya Gajapathi Raju) an Ganga Vanshi Odisha king, (Oddiya/Oriya raju) .

Machher Jhol

The kinds of fish that typically used in Bengali and Oriya households are Hilsa (called Ilisi), Rohu (called Rohi), and Catla (called Bhakura).

Magadhi Prakrit

Magadhi Prakrit later evolved into the Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, including Assamese, Bengali, Oriya and the Bihari languages (Bhojpuri, Maithili, and Magahi, among others).

Nonte Phonte

Minor recurring characters include the headmaster who is quite benign, the cooks at the boarding school hostel who speak Bengali with accents that vary from Bihari, Oriya, and Dhakai, and many students like Nepchada, Lengcha, Boncha.

Nuapada

The noted Oriya poet Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan spent a few years of his childhood and early adult life at Nuapada.

Palakonda

Krushna vallabha Dash, an Oriya Priest from Orissa and a devotee of Durga started worshiping here in 1947.

Rachana Banerjee

Apart from Bengali movies she has also done several Oriya movies, many along with Siddhanta Mahapatra.

Saraha

The script used in the dohas shows close resemblance with the present Oriya script which implies that Sarahapa has compiled his literature in the earlier language which has similarity with both Oriya language and Angika language (part of Maithili language).

Sarala Temple

It is well documented that Sidheshwar Parida - a small time farmer and part-time Oriya Paika - was an ardent follower of the Goddess and it was after her blessings that Sidheshwar Parida became Sarala Das, the author of the Oriya Mahabharata.

Savitri Brata

Savitri Brata(Oriya:ସାବିତ୍ରୀ ଓଷା or ସାବିତ୍ରୀ ବ୍ରତ) or Savitri Amavasya(Oriya:ସାବିତ୍ରୀ ଅମାବାସ୍ୟା) is a fasting day observed by all Hindu Oriya married women on the Amavasya, the last day of the dark fortnight, in the month of Jyestha.

ShakthiDass

He later did innumerable wrappers, storyboard illustration, and sketches for various magazines and novels in Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, English and Oriya including Bommarillu, Chandamama, Balamitra, Nandanam, Bujjayi, Balabharati, Kumkuma, Dinakaran, Vasuki, Rishi Petam, Rotary News,Vijaya Publications, Oriya News, Chinnari, Kannada Chokkalingam.

The Desire

Manmohan Acharya and an Oriya song taken from Padyaballi, written by Gopalkrushna Patnaik.

Vyasanagar College

, in English, Education, Economics, History, Oriya, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology and Sanskrit for B.A. and in Accountancy and Management for B.Com totaling 17 options in undergraduate programs.


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