Give give give us a biggggg break!!!
Orissa is not all about flood,famine,mal-nutrition,poverty..
its has its underbelly like any other place,but it is not definitely all about Orissa(Odisha)
One of the biggest Aluminium project of Orissa has placed its one-page Ad in TOI,first thing catches ur attention in any ad is its images,pictures,then u go about reading the rest.And the pictue this Ad carries is showing a poverty-sticken woman carrying her bare child in her arms.
i dare to ask why YOU are potraying Orissa like this to the rest of the world.
You have many sauve-intellegent oriya engineers/managers working with you,y not present them to the world.
i am sure any oriya like me must have faced many absurd questions by their colleagues/peers outside regarding power cut,floods,famine,poverty ...thanks to "whoever" has created this image of Orissa for this long.
People are surprised to know we have a writing language "Oriya" as well,which is one of the registered languages with constitution,leave alone our legacy of Oriya literature!!!Outsiders left with utter surprise,even with an information like there is really no incessant power cut ,not alleast in all part of Orissa.and eyebrows are raised in disbelief when inform them that we have MNCs in IT operating from Orissa!!!
in next few posts i will potray b'ful orissa for you ...i urge you to share pics n info regarding Orissa ,lets to our bit to undo the damages..
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Exactly, give me a break...
ReplyDeleteHere in US we and my friend and her husband who works in IT were having a conversation. They asked us which state we are from, and we answered "Orissa". Then they said: "oh, Orissa is in Puri, right?" They were from Arga. Then we explained them that the above statement is exactly like saying "Uttar Pradesh is in Agra". They even do not know Orissa is a state.
I mean how these people get their degrees? When we were in school, we had to learn all the state name, what are the specialties of each states and what not. Probably these people did not have any curriculum like this in their past or they do not care to know all these things. Strange....
Niketani...your exemplified a really abysmal picture of Orissa ,that rest of the world has!!But things are changing at the home ground, we will catch up soon (may be li'l late),but we will.
ReplyDeleteJust stumbled at this blog.Great post.We all are ambassadors of our beautiful state.True, poverty is a reality.But, it must not not be projected as the only thing that Orissa has to offer.but I could not find the post that you had promised here.
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