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Odia Wikisource Goes Live!

by Subhashish Panigrahi

Odia netizens have more than one reason to celebrate this festive season.

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Odia Littérateur Ramakrushna Nanda's 4 Books Now Available Under a Creative Commons License

by Subhashish Panigrahi

Children literature in Odia language went through an ennoblement after the intervention of Ramakrushna Nanda's writings.

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Bharat Majhi Writings Now Available Under a Creative Commons License

by Subhashish Panigrahi

Before the advent of Odia Wikisource becoming live, Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) got in touch with notable Odia author Bharat Majhi for bringing his writings on the Internet.

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More Than 40 Million People Await the Launch of Odia Wikisource

by Subhashish Panigrahi

Speakers of Odia will soon have mountains of books to read online in their mother tongue, following the launch of the Odia Wikisource, which will make accessible many rare books that have entered the public domain.

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Open access platform to save the Odia Indian language

by Subhashish Panigrahi

In February 2014, the Government of India declared the South Asian language Odia as the 6th classical language of India which is one among 22 scheduled languages of India and has a literary heritage of more than 5,000 years. There are documents for more than 3,500 years, and the rest are undocumented oral histories.

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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ବିକାଶରେ ପ୍ରତିବନ୍ଧକ ଓ ସମ୍ଭାବନା

by Subhashish Panigrahi

I authored an editorial in today's Samaja (Odia daily). It talks about the hurdles Odia language has been facing and potential aspects of the language including it being used massively on the Internet in Wikipedia and other platforms.

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State Level Seminar on "Odia alphabet and order teaching in primary education"

by Prasad Krishna

Subhashish Panigrahi participated in a state-level seminar on "Number of Odia characters and order teaching in primary education" (ପ୍ରଥମ ଶ୍ରେଣୀରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଅକ୍ଷର ସଂଖ୍ୟା ଓ କ୍ରମଶିକ୍ଷା) co-organised by Institute of Odia Studies and Research, and Odia Bhasa Pratisthan in Bhubaneswar on September 14, 2014.

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Classical Odia Language in the Digital Age

by Subhashish Panigrahi

The essay was published in the June edition of Odisha Review, a magazine published by Government of Odisha's Department of Information and Public Relations.

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Font problem hits Odia

by Prasad Krishna

Focus on search for solution to lack of compatibility.

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