UTKARSA

A quarterly newsletter of OSA reflecting Odia life in North Americas.

OSA Executives Messages, concluding remarks & reports.

Various chapter news, views and members’ achievements.

Odia Stories, recipes and memory lane.

OSA Newsletter Volume 44

June 2013 Issue

Editors Sridhar Rana

Julie Acharya Ray

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Contents

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New/Upgraded OSA Members (June 2012 – June 10th, 2013) ............................................................ 19

OSA Account Statement as of 05/31/2013 (unaudited) ...................................................................... 20

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Pacific Northwest Odisha Society News ................................................................................................ 23

OSA Regional Drama Festival : Rangotsava 2013 ................................................................................. 23

OSA California News ................................................................................................................................ 26

OSA NY –NJ News .................................................................................................................................... 27

OSA Washington DC News ..................................................................................................................... 28

News from the COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY ....................................................................... 30

News from New Jersey ............................................................................................................................. 35

Memory Lane.............................................................................................................................................. 37

Mango Cake Recipe ................................................................................................................................... 40

OSA Regional Drama Festival - a Recap of 4 years .............................................................................. 41

List of Dramas presented in RDFs since 2009 ........................................................................................ 45

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Happy Walking to All ............................................................................................................................... 47

Udyanara Samparka .................................................................................................................................. 49

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Dear OSA family,

It feels like yesterday, we took up OSA’s administration at the Dallas

Convention in July 2011. These past two years in OSA have been

eventful, at times very trying and hard to keep up our energy, but at

the same time very inspiring and fulfilling to be in the service of OSA

community in the North America as well as in Odisha. Now when we

are ready to hand over our responsibility to the newly elected leaders,

it is time to thank the people who have been silently working in the background in order

to make us look good. First, I want to single out Sridhar Rana and Julie Ray, the editors of Utkarsa,

who have been tirelessly serving the community for the past four years. They have been on top of

things and have pushed us constantly to provide material and information on our activities in

order to bring out the journal in time. Without them, we would not have been able to disseminate

the necessary information to keep us in touch with the OSA community at large. I also wish to

thank Dr. Bigyani Das, our immediate past President and the unofficial advisor for Utkarsa, for

providing her unfailing support to insure that Utkarsa was published regularly. We the OSA

officials spread out in different parts of the country hardly knew each other when we came in

office. But working together constantly for two years even at the cost of our personal and

professional lives bonded us together and we became a family. I cannot thank them enough for the

sacrifices they made to make OSA what it is today. As in a separate report I am going to outline

the highlights of OSA activities and achievements, here it is suffice to say that the past two years

has given me innumerable opportunities to relate to our members and know our community better

and I can not thank my stars enough for this huge privilege.

Our much-awaited 44th OSA convention is finally here! As you all know, back at home we grew up

celebrating thirteen festivals in twelve months (Bara Mase Tera Jatra), in the new land we have

adjusted to the demands of life and try to compress all our jatras into one - our annual OSA

convention. I am delighted to welcome you all to the 2013 OSA convention to be held during July 4

– 6, 2013 at the Westin, Lombard, in western suburb of Chicago. We the OSA officials were

delighted when Jhara Das, the President of OSA Chicago chapter brought the proposal to hold this

year’s convention in Chicago and after a year’s patient waiting, here we are in the windy city to

enjoy the fruits of their labor.

My sincere appreciation goes to each of the members of the OSA Chicago chapter and the 2013

Convention Organizing Committee led by Gyana Patnaik for all their hard work, commitment and

dedication in organizing this amazing convention. For the first time in OSA’s 44-year history, the

celebration will be for three days, starting with an Odisha development day on 4th of July, followed

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by inauguration on 5th of July and packed with exciting and colorful programs, celebrations, and

fellow feeling. I must say it is easier to do ten Odia weddings than one convention where 1000-

1200 people come together under one roof for three full days sharing every moment together

totally saturated with feasts and festivals. Congratulations and a big thanks you to our host OSA

Chicago.

The theme of this year’s convention is Bidesha Matire Odia Santana Uccha Rakha Tume Odisha Ra

Mana - Oh Children of Odisha in the foreign land - Keep your motherland's pride alive! This

sentiment was one of the salient features of our own vision for the OSA when we took office in

July 2011 in Dallas, Texas. We have focused on three aspects of that vision – reaching out to the

Odia community, collaborating with our state in Odisha and reaching out to the second generation

Odias spread out in every corner of North America.

We are proud to announce that we are 1000-member families organization and more than 200 life

members and 5-year members have joined OSA over last 2 years, largest increase in OSA's 44 year

history. When we took office, our organization had a permanent membership of less than 800

families and our goal was to reach at least the 1000 mark. I am very happy to report that we are

there and still striving to go further. In this effort I would like to thank all the members of my

team, especially Sushant Satpathy, our treasurer who have worked hard not only to increase OSA

membership but also persuade our life members to upgrade their membership to patrons and

benefactors. It has been gratifying for me to persuade the younger members of our community to

join our organization. I want to express my gratitude to those of them who have heeded to my

request and have become life members. This has reduced the average age of our membership from

the 50s to 40s. It is definitely a welcoming development for OSA.

During our tenure in office, we targeted to work to improve the Higher education in Odisha. We

took the initiative to appoint a committee on Higher Education and worked with them steadily to

organize activities on Higher Education opportunity for students and faculty in Odisha in this

country and to collaborate with the leaders of Higher Education in Odisha. We organized a

symposium in Vani Vihar in Dec 2011 and last year, in Dec 2012 took a delegation of

administrators and academicians from the United States to the Ravenshaw University and to

Sambalpur. There has been wide appreciation of our efforts and there are already four- five

students inspired by our symposia, are studying at the various Institutes and Centers of Higher

Education in this country. One of the exciting developments spearheaded by Prof. Chitta Baral was

the promotion of the Buddhist heritage in Odisha. Following a successful symposium on Buddhist

Heritage in Odisha at the OSA 2012 in Seattle, the department of Tourism of the Odisha state

government organized an international Buddhist Symposium from Feb 1- 4, 2013 to showcase the

Buddhist treasures of Odisha. It was interesting to see the collaboration between private and

public sectors in promoting Buddhist Heritage initiative spearheaded by OSA. Several hundred

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Buddhist scholars and government officials attended this international symposium from

neighboring countries such as Nepal, Tibet, Burma, Korea, Japan and China. Now I am happy to

inform that the Odisha government has already asked the IIT Bhubaneswar to initiate an

Archeology program in order to do serious research on the Buddhist heritage and culture of

Odisha.

Another aspect of our vision has been to transcend various barriers and build bridges across

generations, channeling our services for passing our beautiful Odia culture and heritage to our

next generation. One way to achieve this goal has been to increase awareness of OSA among the

second generation Odias and enthuse them to become members of our organization. We have been

quite successful in reaching out to our youth and a large number of second generation Odias from

all over the country have joined our society as life members. I am glad to see many second

generation young men and women taking lead in organizing youth focus of the convention and

make it unique for all of us. My heartfelt thank you to the convention team, OSA Chicago chapter

leadership and all the Odia families for their support for this event. We still have ways to go, and

my sincere appeal to you all is that you ask your successful sons, daughters, son-in-laws and

daughter-in-laws to join OSA and make it an even more vibrant organization. My experience has

been that if we want to succeed in this society, we have to build bridges and coalitions with like-

minded people and make our own culture and contributions visible to the larger society.We have

been very fortunate in persuading our youth to take leadership roles in spearheading various OSA

activities. The young people of California have organized a retreat in Santa Barbara during the

Memorial Day weekend in September. I can happily say that in their hands, our future is bright.

Here I want to single out the heroic contributions made by Nick Patnaik, a former OSA president

and our past general counsel, and Esha Bandopadyay Dash, the present general counsel, a bright

young attorney who have spent innumerable hours in revising our OSA constitution. Other youth

members such as Sanjiv Behera and Barnali Dasverma among others have joined them as part of

the constitution committee.

In conclusion, I want to emphasize that our society has done well. Since its inception in 1969 our

organization, the OSA, has achieved a lot. It has responded to the ups and downs in our Odia

diasporic community. But now in its 43rd year, it has acquired maturity and stability that it can

build and grow on the strength of our society at large. We have almost reached the 1000 member

families but that is just a fraction of the large number of Odias who are spread out in different

parts of North America. We have tried hard to come this far and we are passing the baton in very

able hands of Tapan Padhi and his team to move it forward. The key is to involve the younger

people in all our activities and encourage them to participate more vigorously in the OSA affair.

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It has been my privilege and honor to serve you all. I want to thank each one of you for the

support you have given my team and me. Please continue to support OSA to take it to greater

heights.

With warmest regards,

Annapurna Pandey

“Dreams do not work unless you do it. What is your dream? Go ahead and do that.” Greetings and welcome to the 44th OSA convention of the Orissa Society of the Americas (OSA) in Chicago. Since we took office in July 2011, we have been very busy doing many things to promote the interest of the Odia Diaspora both here as well as in Odisha. I take this opportunity of outlining some of these activities: Humanitarian issues connecting OSA with Odisha and Odias worldwide: Flood relief Drive: A couple of months after we were inducted in our offices in 2011, the state of Odisha was hit by severe flood affecting more than 19 districts where over 2.7 million people lost their homes and were without clean drinking water and food. The OSA officials led by Sushant Satpathy, the treasurer of OSA, organized a massive fundraising among the Odias in the United States. We raised about fifteen thousand dollars, which were sent to various relief organizations in Odisha. All power to the OSA volunteers and their families for spearheading and contributing to this project! Mr. K. Seshadri Rao’s case: We were mired in an unfortunate death in Boston - Mr. K. Seshadri Rao, a bright and promising 24-year-old young man from Odisha was shot near his apartment in Boston, USA. He was studying Management at Boston University. This tragedy taught me a lesson that despite our common bond and commitment to one another, there are still some people who feel isolated in this highly individualistic society. After hearing about it, we OSA officials reached out to Mr. Rao’s parents in Odisha and the Indian consulate in New York and did whatever we could to console the bereaved family and offer our help to the Indian consulate in bringing the body of the deceased to his family in Odisha. After this tragic incident, one step we have taken is

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to develop a guideline on our website, Orissa society.org, to help the new arrivals from Odisha to become familiar with the culture of this foreign land. UTD student case: Dallas local community tried to reach out to help the student in a trying situation and raised more than 16K. OSA and its members participated to help the cause. Donation to the Red Cross Sandy relief fund: Donation to the Red Cross Sandy relief fund: the Hurricane Sandy on the East coast has affected More than 50 million people. OSA BOG voted to donate $1000 from OSA' s operational income of 2012-2013 budget. Established Emergency Fund: Because of various humanitarian cases and need for OSA’s intervention on behalf of community, 2012 GBM approved to establish a fund of $5K, that can be utilized for these purposes with BOG approval. Jiban Patra case: Jiban Patra was in LA temporarily as part of Piranha Chopra’s team and died of massive heart attack in the hotel. In the ensuing time PC’s team assured to make arrangement to send the body of the deceased to India. Even after one week, as there was no visible progress OSA was involved and many of our members worked together to highlight the plight of the family back in India. Also, we started a fundraising drive to raise funds to send the body and/or help his family. Finally, because of press furor PC’s team arranged to send the body. OSA raised $12K+ for the family and Dr. Kumar Pati has kindly offered employment to Jiban’s wife. Organizational achievements: OSA Membership: We are proud to announce that we are 1000-member families organization and more than 200 life members and 5-year members have joined OSA over last 2 years, largest increase in OSA's 44 year history. When we took office, our organization had a permanent membership of less than 800 families and our goal was to reach at least the 1000 mark. I am very happy to report that we are there and still striving to go further. In this effort I would like to thank all the members of my team, especially Sushant Satpathy, our treasurer who have worked hard not only to increase OSA membership but also persuade our life members to upgrade their membership to patrons and benefactors. It has been gratifying for me to persuade the younger members of our community to join our organization. I want to express my gratitude to those of them who have heeded to my request and have become life members. This has reduced the average age of our membership from the 50s to 40s. It is definitely a welcoming development for OSA. OSA’s Finance: the Treasurer in a separate document provides OSA’s yearly financial report. OSA is a volunteer based organization and is mainly run by volunteers spending countless hours. We are proud to report that we have added 70K to OSA's balance sheet - largest increase in OSA's 44 year history

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OSA 2012 Convention in Seattle: We celebrated the 43rd OSA convention in the beautiful state of Washington in July. It was a gala gathering of about five hundred Odias, both diasporic as well as from Odisha. It was held at the Newport Performing Arts Center, Bellevue and was hosted by the Pacific Northwest chapter of the Odisha Society of the Americas. The highlights of this year’s convention were the pre-convention symposia- the Symposium on Higher Education in Odisha: Challenges & Opportunities; and the symposium on the Buddhist Heritage and knowledge institutions of Odisha, which was a great success. OSA 2013 convention in Chicago: Our much-awaited 44th OSA convention is finally here! As you all know, back at home we grew up celebrating thirteen festivals in twelve months (Bara Mase Tera Jatra), in the new land we have adjusted to the demands of life and try to compress all our jatras into one - our annual OSA convention. I am delighted to welcome you all to the 2013 OSA convention to be held during July 4 – 6, 2013 at the Westin, Lombard, in western suburb of Chicago. We the OSA officials were delighted when Jhara Das, the President of OSA Chicago chapter brought the proposal to hold this year’s convention in Chicago and after a year’s patient waiting, here we are in the windy city to enjoy the fruits of their labor. OSA 2013 convention in Chicago 4-6 July, 2013: The 44th OSA Annual Convention will take place at Westin hotel, Lombard, a west suburb of Chicago from 4th through 7th of July 2013. OSA 2014 Convention by Ohio chapter after 30 years: The last OSA convention in Ohio was in 1984. We are pleased to announce that Ohio is going to host the OSA 2014. Congratulations to Arata Rout, the Ohio chapter president and his team and all the Odias who live in Ohio, We look forward to seeing you all in July 2014. Chapter Relation Chapter Status Updates We now have 16 OSA chapters around the country and all the sixteen chapters have been very active in various cultural and educational activities. Thanks to Leena Mishra, the South East chapter led by Sampurna Sravani and the North West chapter led by Subodh Samal have been reenergized and are playing active role in strengthening the OSA community. Kudos to Leena Mishra and her committee for playing an important role in team building. For a long time the North West chapter was dormant. We have worked with the young leaders in that area and have made that chapter active. I am happy to report that the present President of Minnesota chapter, Debasis Das is very active in the BOG and I am sure, one of these days, they will host a convention. New California Chapter: California became a chapter and was announced at the OSA 2012 in Seattle. Now the chapter members are organizing an election to elect their first set of officials. I am happy to report that many new members are joining OSA from California.

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Awards guidelines revised: We have a revised Award Guideline to make the OSA award selection process more transparent. Draft Convention Guideline: We have revised the convention guideline and will pass on the draft to the incoming team to implement it. Draft Chapter Guideline to be adapted to make it model chapter guideline: We have revised the chapter guideline and will pass on the draft to the incoming team to implement it. Constitution Revision in progress: This was a continuation of the 2011 redraft of the OSA Constitution. Although we ratified a new constitution in 2011, it was the intention of the 2009-11 and 2011-13 Executive Committees that we would obtain legal counsel to finalize the draft in the course of the next two years. A portion of our operating budget had, in fact, been set aside for this purpose. We are happy to report, however, that our in-house Legal Advisor has completed the revision for us and we have not had to spend OSA funds on outside legal counsel for this task. The draft was presented to members on OSANet and sent to their individual id and there was invitation on OSANet to join Review Committee. Following that a review committee was formed with following members : Sanjiv Behera, Barnali Dasverma, Biswajit Khandai, Amiya Nayak, Deva Pattanayak, Nick Patnaik and Esha Bandyopadhyay (as the Legal Advisor), and Sushant Satpathy (as a representative of the Executive Committee and Board of Governors). Upon completion of the Committee’s review, the Board of Governors voted upon the changes proposed by the Committee. The revised draft has been submitted for member comments during this 30-day review period. We hope to present the draft during 2013 GBM. Champu, Chhanda and Odissi initiative (CCO) and CCO CDs sets produced by OSA: From the first CCO Karaoke CD produced by OSA we created 200 copies and have sold more than 140 copies and after deducting all costs made $900. The second set of Karaoke CDs under OSA’s banner will be available for sale at the OSA 2013 in Chicago. To encourage participation at chapter level OSA sponsored CCO competition at some chapters. Odia Language propagation through Let's Learn Odia and Odia Speech Contest at Chapter Level: On behalf of OSA, our Vice President, Kuku Das has orchestrated an Odia debate event on the occasion of Shree Ganesh Puja. This is a humble attempt to encourage our children from age 7 to 12 to brush up on their spoken Odia language and encourage them to speak in Odia language (propagation of Odia language and culture). It will also help establish better synergy between the OSA National and individual chapters. Many chapters have come forward to incorporate this debate during the local chapter Ganesh Puja event. OSA 2013 Drama Festival: The 2013 drama festival is currently organized under the leadership of Sandip Dasverma. For the first time the inter regional drama festival was held in the Bay area, California.

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Community Outreach International Odissi Festival: OSA proudly sponsored the International Odissi festival held in Odisha in December, 2011. OSA & Odisha Odisha Development Day incorporated into 3-days convention: As a sizable majority at the GBM 2012 approved it, OSA convention will be a three-day event and the first day will be a self-sustainable event showcasing Odisha. OSA Higher Education Opportunity Workshop at the Ravenshaw University on 18th Dec, 2012: In order to reach out to our people back home we have initiated higher education opportunity projects in Odisha. We organized a workshop on the Higher education opportunity at the Utkal University, Bhubaneswar in Dec 2011. This year, we will hold it at the Ravenshaw University on 18th Dec 2012 as well as in Sambalpur University in Dec 2012. At least USA universities will participate in the Higher Education symposium. We had a preliminary Higher Education opportunity symposium at the OSA 2012 in Seattle and it was well attended. It will focus on attracting talented students to apply to the USA in various fields in Arts, Sciences, and Engineering among other subjects and to facilitate opportunities for collaboration between universities in Odisha and the USA. The International Buddhist symposium was held at Ratnagiri Feb 1-3, 2013. Following a successful symposium on Buddhist heritage in Odisha at the OSA 2012 in Seattle, the Odisha government organized an international Buddhist Symposium from Feb 1-4, 2013 to showcase the Buddhist treasures of Odisha. Connected with Odias across the globe: Since we took office, we made a conscious effort to connect with the Odia organizations across the globe sharing all the necessary information about our activities and events. Improved communication with members: New OSA website: Congratulations to OSA! Thanks to our dynamic new web administrator Bikas Panda, who is working on making the OSA website more interactive. Please visit our new website at orissasociety.org. OSAnet: OSAnet has been revitalized and as its regular readers know it has helped better communication among the OSA members who are very active in participating in different discussions and debates dealing with various issues involving OSA. Since we took office in July 2011, Manoj Padhi from Texas has joined Sunil Sabat as the OSAnet moderator. He has been very active through out the year and I would like to commend him for his exemplary service. Also,

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OSA website: Congratulations to OSA! Thanks to our dynamic new web administrator Bikas Panda, who is working on making the OSA website more interactive. OSA newsletter Utkarsa: OSA newsletter Utkarsa is published quarterly. The OSA editors Sridhar Rana and Julie Acharya Ray have continued as the editors of Utkarsa. Dr. Babru Samal also joined the team as the Special editor and has put together a special Utkarsa issue focused on “The Immigrant experiences” in March 2012. OSA membership card: When we ask people to join OSA, we are often asked “why? What we get in return?” Our numbers are very small compared to people from other Indian states that may be a compelling reason to stay connected. There are many benefits and it is on our website. I just want to mention that we have introduced a membership card for our permanent members and we have negotiated discounts from some businesses like hotels, resorts, travel agency, and retailers in Odisha. Currently, the list is small but we plan to add more over months and years to come and may be some from here. BOG and monthly meetings: We have sixteen OSA chapters and are led by chapter Presidents and vice presidents and other officials. The Chapter Presidents along with the OSA executives are also the Board of Governors - the OSA BOG meetings are held once a month on every first Sunday of the month. OSA executive meetings are held every month on need basis. Apart from that there were frequent meetings for maintaining the optimum health of OSA. It is a wonderful way of communication between all the OSA executives, the Board of Governors and the members of OSA. Also there are regular meetings and email exchanges between OSA executives, committee members and OSA members to discuss OSA, its issues, goals and milestones. Sincerely, OSA National Executives (2011-2013)

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Namaskar!

We didn’t even realize the time has gone so quickly. The clock is ticking and

saying it’s time to say goodbye. With our human instincts, my passionate mind

is saying, what!...No, I have just began my bonding with my friends across the

OSA land. My journey has only started…

My dream of the vision of MyOSA, which I have planted in my mind has just

germinated and have young leaves. We have successfully achieved the core of

the vision, making OSA a trustworthy place, youth members taking more

interest, giving emphasis on Odia literacy, is now able to become strong and

transparent. Last but not least our continuous and determined effort for building

the bridge between both the generations and channelizing our services for passing our

beautiful Odia culture and heritage to our next generation is still an ongoing process.

The 2011-2013 OSA Team brought a renaissance to this 44 year old organization. We have tried to

contribute our time and had shown our unconditional support to this beautiful organization,

which has grown during our tenure in every aspect! The mutual understanding between the

national executives, chapter executives and the members has grown tremendously. Today,

everybody is welcome to share their opinion and experience to make this organization stronger.

We are successful to bring OSA’s visibility outside of USA. OSA has conducted many seminars

and workshops which has been helpful and well appreciated. For the first time in OSA history,

OSA National has conducted competitions for children in the chapter level to propagate the Odia

literacy. Many members have acknowledged this noble endeavor and wish this attempt to

continue for the betterment of our future generation. Many youth members had shown immense

interest in OSA affairs.

The revised version of OSA Awards guideline will be a very valuable, user friendly document.

Thanks to many reviewers, well-wishers for their valuable suggestion and input to bring this

document to its current form and shape. The OSA Award nomination form was very vague and

didn’t meet specific requirements in the past. With the help of the Award committee the new

guideline has award specific nomination forms and the new matrix has been created for an

accurate evaluation. Thanks to many contributors of this document, specifically the core team

member. Finally thanks to OSA Executives and Board of Governors for final review and

acceptance of this as formal document for OSA award initiative for now and near future.

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The constitution review committee had spent an enormous amount of time for reviewing and

providing valuable suggestions to improve the revised draft constitution and related documents.

These suggested changes will definitely add more value to the existing documents. Hope the

members find it useful and support the cause.

Two of the major accomplishments for our team from organizational stand point are financial

stability and membership drive. They are really huge and there is nothing compared to that in

OSA's 44 year history! We have close to 1000-families which means during these two years

membership would have increased by 25%. Also, addition of $50K+ to OSA's treasury over last

two years would be the most significant contribution to OSA's financial stability. Now we are all

ready to welcome the new OSA executives and pass the baton. All our good wishes to the

upcoming team for their willingness to build a better and stronger OSA!

On behalf of OSA, I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who made these two

years journey such a success, including the supportive Board of Governors, the generous OSA

community, the tireless OSA National Team, and of course my family, whose encouragement and

support helped me to do my service diligently. The blessings and good wishes of the entire OSA

community helped us to pass this unforgettable journey pleasantly. My heartfelt gratitude goes to

all my teammates for giving me the opportunity to work with them. I had a wonderful learning

experience through working with them. In spite of my best effort to do the justice to the position I

served, please forgive me if I did anything inadvertently that made anybody unhappy.

Last but not least, it’s my immense pleasure to welcome you all to the 44th OSA convention at The

Westin, Lombard, in western suburb of Chicago. Youth engagement is the theme of OSA2013. I

commend the organizing team for their hard work, dedication and success to put together an

amazing entertainment package for your pleasure. Hope you all join us and become a part of this

historical event!

With Best Regards,

Kuku Das

Vice President, OSA

Co-Convener, OSA2013

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Dear Friends,

Namaskar!

It is almost time to welcome the new team who will usher in new

spring with new ideas and new passion. Looking back it was not too

long ago I took this role with the understanding that I will be

responsible for writing and depositing few checks in a month and

keep transactions transparent. I never guessed what was ahead but I

had your trust and support; while I learned about the organization,

its members and the politics around it in this role, I always had clear

convictions to follow. It has been an honor and privilege to be part of

this organization, part of this team and having the opportunity to

work with so many of you either in the BOG, in chapters and in

conventions. I had three promises to you: transparency,

independence and open communication. I tried my best to keep

those promises as a member of the executive team as well as a BOG member.

I enunciated my belief ‘Belonging to a community requires commitment to common good’; I felt

you all sided with me during different humanitarian endeavors we were together. I believed in

‘Open and transparent communication with all members’, at times you challenged me to rise to the

occasion, I hope I did. I thought ‘OSA can only grow by engaging second generation Odias and

welcoming first generation Odias to its fold’, without prior knowledge I found partners in my

team who believed in this as much as I did. At the end together we succeeded what we intended

to do; with results that are visible but changes that are subtle.

Organizational Growth (2011-2013)

Like any member organization, OSA’s strength lies with numbers both in terms of its membership

as well as financials. A growing organization reflects the value it provides to its members in

general and the community at large. It is my pleasure to report that organization has seen

significant growth on both these counts over last two years.

Membership

Today OSA has close to 1000-member families and in last two years nearly 200-families have

joined OSA as permanent members or 5-year members and that is more than 25% increase in total

number of members excluding annual members in the span of 2-years!

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Membership Category

As of 2011 July

As of June 10th, 2013

Increase in Permanent Member by June 10th, 2013

Life Members 655 807 152 Benefactors 28 42 14 Patrons 50 51 1 5-year Members

21 53

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Annual Members

64 33

Total 818 986 199

In a community like ours it takes a village, I acknowledge the tremendous effort of many

individuals in getting or facilitating new members; all OSA officials, Chapter leaders during our

time and several members in our community played vital role without whose help we could not

have achieved this milestone

Financials

OSA’s financial position has improved considerably due to 3 reasons: increase in membership,

substantial surplus from 2012 convention because of prudent management of convention finance

and membership upgrade by many members who contributed to help OSA gain its financial

footing.

Changes in balance September, 2011 to May, 2012

Total Balance (as of 05/31/2012) $130,916.39

Total Balance(as of 09/01/2011) $105,686.55 Net Increase $25,229.84 * The total balance includes convention advance. During this time we added 105 new members: 82

life members, 21 5-year members and 2 benefactor members.

Changes in financial status June, 2012 to May, 2013

* The total balance includes convention advance and $12,329.54 for JP Fund (in the process of

disbursement). By June 10th, 2013 we have added 89 new members; 71 life members and 18 5-year

members. 12 members upgraded to become benefactors and 4 upgraded to become patrons.

Cumulative change of balances Sept, 2011 to May, 2013

Total Balance (as of 05/31/2013) $187,329.77

Total Balance(as of 09/01/2011) $130,916.39 Net Increase $56,,413.38

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In the span of 2 years we have added net $70K to OSA’s balances and may be the largest increase

in OSA’s history! I can assure you because of the changes in perception regarding organization

and its role the best time is yet to come.

Nothing can be done alone and it is fun to work as a team and I was fortunate to have our

President Annapurna Pandey, VP Kuku Das and Secretary Leena Mishra as part of this team; their

unstinted support and unconditional help made everything seem achievable. We could not have

achieved these goals without help from our president Annapurna Pandey spending time and

efforts in membership drive, fund raising, reaching out to many in the community and engaging

2nd gen Odias. We need to continue that for a healthy and prosperous OSA.

I am confident under the leadership of Tapan Padhi, Sikhanda Satpathy, Sabita Panigrahi and

Prashant Ranabijuli OSA will achieve new heights. I request everyone to extend their full support

to the incoming team as you have done for ours. I fully agree with Tapan babu’s message that with

a growing organization we need more volunteers from our community. I thank everyone who

were together with us during this time, OSA National team, BOG members, members of the

community and most importantly my family who allowed me to devote a significant amount of

time on OSA affairs beyond my role. Finally, we are leaving OSA much stronger; both

organizationally and financially than we took in. I salute you all for your goodwill and support

during these two years. I always had trust in you and at the end we came through. I express my

humble gratitude for your continued support and best wishes during this time.

Many thanks and regards,

Sushant Satpathy

Volunteer/Treasurer, OSA (2011-2013)

PS: Below I present you

1. Membership Drive – Final Appeal

2. List of new Members 2012-2013

3. OSA’s Account Statement for June, 2012 –May, 2013

Total Balance (as of 05/31/2013) $187,329.77

Total Balance(as of 09/01/2011) $105,686.55 Net Increase $81,643.22 Jiban Patra Fund $12,329.54 Net Increase excluding JP Fund $69,313.68

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Membership Drive – Final Appeal - Need 2nd gen to join!!!

Now, you must be thinking ‘Jiba Bela Helani Ta Pare bi’. You got it right; I am doing this for

Prashant. We need to keep the momentum and we definitely need our 2nd gen Odias to be part of

this organization, otherwise at some point we will have structural issues with the organization.

Most of Odias from 70’s, 80’s were very active in this organization. Unlike now, at that time people

with connection to Odisha looked for OSA and joined. I am surprised to see many of their children

have nothing to do with it. They might say ‘we had fun growing up but now it does not appeal to

us, we don’t know how it is going to help me’. It is not for them, it is for their kids to have similar

experience of the community. I request all of you have a conversation with your adult

son/daughter about the possibility of their joining and participating in the community. We also

want children in the community look up to successful 2nd gen Odias and when they grow up

connect with other 2nd /3rd gen oDias in US/Canada through this organization.

New/Upgraded OSA Members (June 2012 – June 10th, 2013) Sushant Satpathy, Treasurer, OSA

NEW B E N E F A C T O R M E M B E R S

Akhil and Bijoya Gantayat, CA

Debaki and Anjana Choudhury, MD

Gopal and Reva Mohapatra, TX

Kirti Mohapatra and Parimita Mohanty, OR

Priyaranjan and Aparna Mohapatra, NJ

Ramesh and Anjali Misra, MI

Satya and Chandra Mohanty, NY

Surendra and Nandita Dash, OH

Sushant Satpathy and Ipsita Mahapatra, IL

Tapan and Sudhamayee Padhi, TX

Triloki and Annapurna Pandey, CA

Somdutt and Shrabanee Behura, TX

NEW P A T R O N M E M B E R S

Chitta Baral and Mutsumi Nakamura

Gyana and Sujata Patnaik

Jay Narayan and Liza Bhuyan

Prasanta and Suparna Behera

NEW L I F E M E M B E R S

Amiya Tripathy and Sanjeebita Dash, WA

Amrit Misra, MI

Amulya Patra and Sanghamitra Mohapatra, CA

Anil Sahoo, NC

Anshuman Panigrahi and Saswati Mahapatra, NJ

Ashok and Anita Das, WA (upgrade)

Asish Misra, MI

Ayaskant and Susmita Sahu, MD,

Bala Dixit and Nirlipta Daschaudhury, MD

Bapi and Rita Mohanty, CA

Barun Pani and Rita Agrawal, MS

Bibhuti and Madhulita Panda, AZ

Bikash and Neeta Mohanty, IL

Bikash and Nibedita Pattnaik,WI

Bilkash and Niki Panigrahi, NJ

Biswa and Leena Rath, IL

Biswajit and Subhra Pati, IL

Chakradhar Kar and Ellora Mishra, CA

Payal and Siddharth Mohapatra, CA

Piyush Swain and Prativa Ray,IL

Prabhat and Sanghamita Chowdhury, AZ

Prakash and Anjali Mohanty, IL

Prakash and Padma Muduli, IL

Prakash and Pragati Pattnaik, CA

Pramod & Bina Samal , CA

Prasanna & Murchhana Satpathy, NJ (upgrade)

Prasanta and Lily Behera, WA

Prashant and Asmita Mohanty, IL

Pratap and Namita Mishra, AZ

Raj and Sarita Patnaik, MD

Rajeev Behera and Surbhi Sarna, CA

Rajesh and Sikha Panda, IL

Sahana and Tej Shah, NJ

Sakti S Singh, NC

Sanjay Rout, IL

Sanjeeb Sarangi and Atoshi Sahoo, WA

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Dambaru Jena and Chandra Jena, IL

Debabrata Panda and Renuka Mishra, CA (upgrade)

Debasis and Mahasweta Das, MN

Debi and Das and Sonali Pattanayak, ON

Deepak and Itishree Dhal, MD

Deepak and Meghali Patra, TX

Hemant and Ranjita Parija, CA

Jyoti and Susmita Das, CA

Kamal & Nivedita Panda, CA,

Kamala Dash and Niharika Mishra,IL

Krushna and Sarita Padhi,NJ

Kumkum and Jujudhan Jena, NJ (upgrade)

Kumud Dash, NC

Kunja and Sunita Das, NJ

Lisa Bedbak and Ajjai Alva, MI

Lokanath and Prativa Das, CA

Manoj Mishra and Snigdha Hota, MD

Nachiketa and Shriya Hota, WA

Narendra and Madhusmita Kota, MI

Padmalochan and Sarita Patnaik, MN

Parag and Swati Mishra, MI

Sanjukta Satpathy, NJ

Santosh and Lipika Mahapatra, NY (upgrade)

Saroj and Sarita Panda, GA

Saswat and Rumna Mishra, CA

Satyakam , and Mitali Das, WA (upgrade)

Sisir and Lisa Padhy, NJ

Sitikantha and Namita Panigrahi, CA

Soumya Mohanty and Lipsa Patnaik, MA

Sounak Misra, OR

Srijoy and Jigna Mahapatra, MN

Subash and Laxmipriya Das, WI

Subhendu Das and Ranjita Samantray,MI

Subrat and Nisha Biswal, Washington DC

Sudhir and Shailaja Raju, VA

Sumeet Mohanty and Sreemathi Iyer, CA

Bijay and Sandhya Panda, CA, LM;

Susant and Smita Padhy, ON

Susil and Sindhuja Panda, NC

Tushar Mohanty and Rupali Pattanayak, TN (upgrade)

Uma Sankar and Pavani Misra, IL

Suchit and Anjali Dash, CA

Prat(yush) Panda, CA

NEW 5-YR M E M B E R S

Ajit Nayak and Smita Patnaik, MA

Amiya Das , MD

Arun and Mamata Mishra, WA

Bikram Mohanty, GA

Dave Dash and Catherine Bonn, CA

Dheeren and Monalisa Bebortha, CA

Gloria Briseno, WA

Madhabika Nayak, CA

Mrunali Das, MD

Prasanta and Swayamprava Misra , TX

Rabindra and Anjali Behera, IA

Rashmi Sarangi and Priyanka Prakriti, DE

Satya Mahanti and Leeta Das, OR

Soumya and Pragyan Nanda , WA

Subhankar Panda, OR

Subhranshu and Sudipta Mishra, TX

Surath and Sangeeta Rath, TX

Susanta Samantaray, WA

OSA Account Statement as of 05/31/2013 (unaudited) Prepared by Sushant Satpathy Amount

Income/ Expense Category

Treasurer, OSA

Opening Balances as of 06/01/2012

Checking #1 $13,955.00 Checking #2 $18,607.41 CD#1 $25,696.03 CD#2 $62,657.95 Convention Advance Receivable $10,000.00 Total Balance (as of

06/01/2012) $130,916.39

Receipts $10,000.00

2012 Convention Advance - Return*

$19,127.53

2012 Convention Income*

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$1,690.00

Annual Membership *

$2,370.00

OSA Fee*

$5,900.00

Membership Upgrade *

$18,730.00

OSA new Life and 5-year Membership **

$500.00

Donation *

$372.60

Interest Income from CD/FDs *

$450.00

Donation - OSA Development Fund **

$150.00

2013 Convention Donation*

$500.00

Awards *

$1,986.24

CCO Fund ( donations and CD sale)***

$2,000.00

Emergency Fund ***

$3,580.00

Odisha Development Fund ( ODF )***

$835.15

UTD student ***

$12,329.54

Jiban Patra Fund ***

Payments $10,000.00

2013 Convention Advance*

$150.00

2013 Convention Donation*

$120.00

2012 Convention Refund/Adjustment*

$1,000.00

Regional Drama Festival *

$1,751.64

Administrative ( Fees , Postage, Bouquet, Membership Card printing etc) *

$5,000.00

Membership Award*

$500.00

CCO Awards***

$455.00

Odia Language***

$2,104.20

Higher Ed and other Expense - ODF Fund***

$1,191.69

Awards *

$1,000.00

Hurricane Sandy Relief to Red Cross *

$835.15

UTD student ***

Net Increase (Decrease) $56,413.38 Remarks

* Items marked are operational income or expense

** Items marked will be transferred to fixed deposit/ CD ( donations to 'Rebuild OSA Fund')

*** Designated special funds

Balances as of 05/31/2013 Checking #1 $61,421.15

Checking #2 $12,429.54 CD#1 $103,479.08 Convention Advance Receivable $10,000.00 Total Balance (as of 5/31/2013) $187,329.77 Total Balance(as of 06/01/2012) $130,916.39 Net Increase $56,413.38

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Balances under special funds ODF $1,620.80

CCO Fund $1,561.24 Odia (Language) Development- $3,384.50 Emergency Fund $7,000.00 Jiban Patra Fund $12,329.54

Total Balance (as of 5/31/2013) $187,329.77 Total Balance (as of 9/1/2011) $105,686.55 Net Increase $81,643.22 Exclude Jiban Patra Fund $12,329.54 Total Increase over 1.75 years $69,313.68

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Pacific Northwest Odisha Society News By Priyadarshan Patra

Our Portland region members hosted the Aruna Mohanty dance troupe (Gatha Odishi) in May where 10+ artists presented a mesmerizing performance. The chapter is planning a chapter event that hosts and presents the Saregama superstar Sniti Mishra on July 27th at Portland which will be followed by a second event in Seattle on July 28th that is partly supported by the chapter and organized by chapter members. Many chapter members are also participating in a 2-night camping adventure starting on July 11th. Apart from these major advertised activities, the young chapter and its chapter members are celebrating several secular and religio-cultural occasions in our great pacific north west.

OSA Regional Drama Festival : Rangotsava 2013

By Priyadarshy Dash

The OSA Regional Drama festival of the Pacific South West chapter was held on April 28 2013. The

drama team from Sacramento was led by Saroj Mahapatra and the team from Bay Area was

captained by Dillip Praharaj. The Bay Area Natua Goshthi BANG was founded in the beginning of

the millennium by and has staged a full scale drama every year. The BANG won the 2012 Pramod

Pattanaik Drama competition at Seattle. But this was their magnum opus. The play 'Mote Jete

Mathibu Maath' was a tribute to Jaspal Bhatti and Vivek Shauq and was an Oriya adaptation of

one of their TV episodes. The Sacramento WEORIYAS presented a vary reflective piece of the

different phases of Odias coming to live in America. Their Drama titled, Mu American ODIA

KAHUCHI showed the funny interactions between Odias who came to settle in California during

60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. Thanks to Sandip Babu for guidance on every step , Kuku and Gayatri, our

cultural ambassadors for getting the stage set. As William Shakespeare said “All the world's a

stage, and all the men and women merely players. There is one entry and one exit for all”.

Sacramento https://plus.google.com/photos/111749357614714033318/albums/5872539809745778257?authkey=CLSL-OeNoYrAPw Bay Area https://plus.google.com/photos/104176934494982399442/albums/5872150188402141793?authkey=CPajuqzD0enEjwE

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OSA California News By Sunil Sabat

California chapter has been formed. It has co-hosted, working with iGurukul, successfully first drama competition on April 28. Here are the details: Place: Woodside High School, Performing Arts Center Address: 199 Churchill Avenue, Woodside, CA 94062 Time: 11AM-5PM Date: Apr 28th, 2013/Sunday Comment from a viewer (Anup) along with photos: Another stupendous show - very well done. Kudos to organizers, volunteers and participants. I took pictures at some of the items - here are the links. Please share and enjoy!

1. Dances https://plus.google.com/photos/104176934494982399442/albums/5872149296019907057?authkey=CJe2i7rByf-6wQE

2. Bay Area Play https://plus.google.com/photos/104176934494982399442/albums/5872150188402141793?authkey=CPajuqzD0enEjwE

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Teams from San Francisco Bay area and Sacramento performed and it was very well accepted in the presence of 300+ numbered audience. It was held soon after Late Jiban Patra's sudden death ordeal in Los Angeles hotel. OSA's timely help inspired few new members to join the organization. Yes, action yields the results in the form of new members. Chapter's first meeting has been held. Formal office bearers will be announced by the end of July. OSA California chapter plans to hold Festivals of Odisha in April 1st weekend of 2014. We will host Kumar Purnima or similar activity in Fall. The chapter is working on Sniti Mishra musical program in August 2013.

OSA NY –NJ News By Prabhat Mohapatra During this period OSA NY-NJ celebrated picnic on June 15th 2013 at Princeton Country Club.

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OSA Washington DC News By Prakash Sahu

The day was a perfect summer day for having the Raja picnic. We had many visiting parents who

added to the diversity of our gathering. Thank you for joining us at the Raja picnic event in

Algonkian Park.

"Raja Saheb nka pana dokan" was setup with grand fanfare and celebrations! Picnickers' got to

check out the good stuff. It reminded us of our small town shop filled with candies, lollipops,

paana masala offering sweet and jarda paana. This was courtesy of Raja Panigrahi, which was a

super hit idea, liked by all. At the end not a single pana remained and it collected for our chapter a

neat amount of $38. We thank our generous customers. Please check the attached picture.

Food was good starting with Papdi chaat, fruits, pizza (for kids), and the amazing chaas

(buttermilk) to drink while the grill was getting ready for grilling corns, vegetables and chicken.

Once again Raja with abundance energy and supported by enthusiastic friends took charge of the

grill business. Later everyone relished whatever it churned out over the charcoal!

We had fun games for kids and adults. It was such a wonderful sight to see everyone's enthusiasm

and spirit for the sack race, lemon race, and running race. Thanks to the excited volunteers who

facilitated these games. We also had a written quiz about facts related to Odisha, India and Indian

mythology. Thanks to Surojita for administering the quiz and Gudli for evaluating them. Sujit Das

cracked the quiz getting 13/15 followed by Salai and Sandeep Pattnayak both scoring 11/15.

Lunch was followed by a game of cricket which was captained by Subrat and Sandeep Pattnayak.

Girija took three great catches while Kirtan took a superb diving catch. Kitu was the most prolific

scorer on Sandy's team. Anant and Sashwat bowled well. Gautam hit a ball which landed in the

river. Satish was declared the man of the match. The cool fruit salad was a life saver during and

after the match.

We wish to thank our volunteer friends for helping in food preparation and getting them to the

picnic. Thanks to Urmila Apa, Upendra, Maushumi, Reema, Leena, Hemant, Bindu, Swati, Sujit,

Munu and Pradeep. We also appreciate "Biryani Corner" (located in Herndon) for providing us

with a complimentary chicken Biriyani tray to enjoy.

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Thanks to all for the cooperation and help to make this a successful event. Hope everyone had a

great time.

We missed all those who could not join the Raja picnic and look forward to meeting you during

the "Ganesh Puja" community event on 09/14/2013 (noon Saturday) at the Hindu temple.

Best Wishes and Regards,

OSA Washington DC Chapter Office Bearers

Prakash,

Sushmita &

Bijay

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News from the COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY By Prof. Amiya Mohanty

GATHA ODISSI DANCE IN LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY

Bharatiya Temple and Cultural Center (BTCC), Lexington, KY presented Gatha Odissi on

April 5, 2013. Gatha Odissi, a dance ballet, was performed by an ensemble of 10 dancers, led and

choreographed by Aruna Mohanty, a senior disciple of Padmashree Guru Gangadhar Pradhan.

This delectable two-hour dance recital performance was preceded by a sumptuous Indian dinner

served by Masala Indian Restaurant of Richmond, KY. The audience was 200-attendees

strong. The dance items in this program included:

• “Krupa Nidhana” – Celebration of Lord Jagannath Ratha Yatra;

• “Konark Kantee” – Portrayal of the sculpturesque poses depicted in Sun Temple

Konark

• “Ramayana Rasa” – Communication of six emotions, each conveyed through an

episode from the ancient epic of Ramayana.

• “Krishna Sharanam” – Presentation of seven episodic snapshots for life of Lord

Krishna that underline his values and principles.

• “Swargadapi Gariyasi” – This dance is a tribute to the glorious panorama of Orissa

scenic beauty and its treasure trove of sculptural heritage, and above all pays

homage to the supreme Lord Jagannath.

The dynamism, charisma, astounding talent of the dancers complemented by the provocative

choreography provided a rare visual treat for the audience in Lexington, KY.

The entire Odissi dance performance was dedicated to the installations of deties such as Lord

Jagannath, Hanuman and Sreenath in Bharatiya Temple and Cultural Center (BTCC) in Lexington,

Kentucky.

The event was a grand success. Thanks to the tireless efforts of the Indian community in

Lexington, KY, led by Prof. Amiya Mohanty.

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Professor Amiya Mohanty introduces Guru Aruna Mohanty

Picture of Odissi Group Dance

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Picture of Odissi Group Dance

Dancers receiving Awards

Professor Amiya Mohanty of Kentucky received Fulbright specialist Award

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Submitted by: Surajit Amrit, Lexington, Kentucky

Dr. Amiya K. Mohanty, Professor Emeritus and

Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Eastern Kentucky

University has been selected as a Fulbright Specialist

in Sociology, on behalf of the J. William Fulbright

Foreign Scholarship Board (FSB), the U.S.

Department of States Bureau of Education and

Cultural Affairs (FCB) and the Council for

International Exchange of Scholars (CIES). Dr.

Mohanty has been approved to be on their Specialist

Roster for next five years. Under the Fulbright

Sponsorship, the specialists serve the higher

educational institutions outside the United States as

consultant to the administrators and scholars on

faculty development, graduate and undergraduate

programs and participate in or lead in relevant

seminars and workshops.

Dr. Mohanty has been invited by Ravenshaw University, Odisha State in India to serve as a

Fulbright Specialist in Sociology and Social Research in Fall of 2013. He has accepted the invitation.

The exact dates of his service will be decided by the Fulbright Office (USEFI) in New Delhi, India.

Dr. Mohanty came to the United States with Fulbright and Smith-Mundt Fellowships. He did his

Ph.D. in Sociology in Florida State University. He taught in Western Kentucky University, Georgia

Southern University and is in Eastern Kentucky University since 1969. He is co-author of two

Research monographs and has published a number if Research articles in Scientific Journals.

Professor Mohanty received two research grants, one from Smithsonian Institution, Washington

D.C. and the other from American Center of Oriental Research, Amman, Jordan, to study the

Changing Social Supports, Problems and adjustments of elderly population in India and Jordan

respectively. He also assumed leadership roles in several professional and socio-cultural

organizations at local, state and Regional levels.

It is a pleasure to report that Dr. Amiya K. Mohanty, Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor of

Sociology at Eastern Kentucky University has received the recognition and award on March1,

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2013, from the SPEAKER AND THE HOUSE Of REPRESENTATVES OF THE

COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY for his contributions to higher education and research as

well as for his selection as a Fulbright Specialist in Sociology on a five year roster.

Dr. Mohanty is one of the founding life members of Bluegrass Indo-American Civic Society

(BIACS) since 1988 and served in the committee to develop the BIACS Constitution and BY-Laws.

He was the first secretary of BIACS in 1988-89 and served as President for about two terms in 1999

and the year 2000.

Dr. Mohanty is an outstanding scholar, educator and researcher and has been a charismatic leader

of a number of Socio-cultural organizations at the local, regional and national levels. During his

educational career, he received a number of scholarships and fellowships such as Post-graduate

merit scholarship from the State Government of Orissa to have post-graduate study in Sociology in

the University of Bombay. After five years of research and teaching in the Utkal University he

received the Fulbright and Smith-Mundt fellowships for pursuing advanced studies in the United

States. During his long period of residency in the United States (1964-2013), he maintained a

balance between his involvement in the scholarly and professional activities as well as in Socio-

cultural and charitable community activities. At state level he was elected as President of

“Anthropologists and Sociologists of Kentucky, Chairman of Anthropology and Sociology in

Kentucky Academy of Science”, State Chairman of “Southern Sociological Society”, received an

award from Population Institute for his activities in organizing seminars and conferences

regarding population growth and control. He received a number of educational and research

grants. He received a curriculum grant on “Aging Analysis” from Government of Commonwealth

of Kentucky, an Aging Research grant from Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. for study of

the elderly population in Tamilnadu, India and received a grant as a senior post doctoral fellow in

American Center of Oriental Research, in Amman, Jordan to study the problems and adjustments

of the elderly. He is co-author of two research monograph and has published a number of research

articles in Scientific Journals.

Professor Mohanty’s contributions to Orissa Society of Americas are significant. He has been

involved in this organization since 1970 and at present he is a life member of OSA. Dr. Mohanty is

one of the founding members of Southern Chapter and served as a member of steering committee

for OSA convention hosted by Southern Chapter in 1989 in Nashville, Tennessee. He served as

chairman of Constitution Committee appointed by OSA president Mr. Ashok Das, 1988-89. The

first systematically drafted Constitution was approved by OSA General Body on July 2, 1989.

Professor Mohanty served as President of OSA in 1989-91. During this period, Subrina Memorial

Scholastic Award and Kalashree Award were instituted in OSA. During his presidency with help

of DR. and Mrs. Bhagabat Sahu, an Odissi summer dance institute in Athens, Alabama was held.

Also during this period an institution of a trust for youth activities of OSA was established by DR.

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and Mrs. Bhagabat Sahu. During his presidency in 1990, the OSA Convention in Washington D.C.

was one of the best through the effort of Mr. Pratap Das, Convenor and Annapurna Biswal as the

Cultural Committee chairperson. Dr. Abid Hussein, the Indian Ambassador and Mr. Lalit

Mansingh, the Chief of Mission were the guests of honor and the artists of Chitralekha Academy,

Toronto presented superb performances.

Dr. Mohanty regularly attends the annual OSA Conventions and becomes an active participant in

various convention activities. In fact, Professor Mohanty is one of the senior, active past president

of Odisha Society of Americas. I extend my congratulation and wish him the best.

News from New Jersey By Sanjukta Gayen

Sri Guruvaayoorappan Temple in Morganville celebrated New Year and Ram Nabami on April 27th, 3 PM to 7:30 PM. About 10 states participated in the new year celebration part of the program. Theme was to perform specific to the states to increase awareness about different states. Odiya team participated and performed Odissi songs. Team was led by Riti Mohanty. Team members included:

1. Riti Mohanty 2. Mahashweta Gayen 3. Sheya Singh 4. Ankita Samal

Odiya teams program started by stating that ‘ Odiya Culture is influenced by Lord Jagannatha and will be reflected by songs the team will present’. Group performed 5 songs. They started with a devotional song –Dasha Avatara as a group, followed by Odiissi song –‘ Mohon Madhuri’ by Mahashweta Gayen. Sheya Singh and Ankita Samal sang a ‘Jha ‘ Champu followed by Riti Mohanty with a ‘La’ Champu. Group closed the program with Bande Utkala Janani. For the closing song, all oriya families from audience came to stage and participated in the closing song. Most of the audiences were non-oriya. But they liked the performance and appreciated. We received multiple comments like ‘even if we didn’t understand the lyrics, we enjoyed the music’. Multiple families came to Riti and let her know how much they liked her and children’s singing.

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Riti Mohanty co-ordinated the program in 4 days only. It was a successful and felt good that in such a short notice we could represent Orissa through Odissi songs so well and young girls could perform in such a short notice.

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Memory Lane By Dr. Prasanna Pati

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Mango Cake Recipe By Dr. Bigyani Das

Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour (maida) 2 tsp baking powder 1 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp cardamom powder or indian garam masala powder 1 1/2 cups ripe mango puree 1/3 cup neutral oil (vegetable, canola, etc) 2/3 cup granulated sugar 1 tsp vanilla Steps: 1. First mix - Mango pulp, vegetable oil, sugar and vanilla 2. Then mix flour, baking soda, baking powder and garam masala powder in another bowl. 3. Slowly mix the flour mixture into the mango mixture. Do not over mix. Mix by spatula or wire whisk. 4. Grease a cake pan and pour the mixture into it. 5. Pre-heat over at 350 F . 6. Bake the cake for 30 mins or until a fork comes out clean when inserted into the middle of the cake.

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OSA Regional Drama Festival - a Recap of 4 years

By Sandip K. Dasverma

History:

OSA Odia Regional Drama Festival (RDF) will complete 5 years in 2013. RDF was introduced in 2008 when the author was in OSA National Executive, 2007-2009*. The first RDF was staged in the year 2009 in Michigan by OSA Michigan Chapter. It was titled Northern Regional Drama Festival. In four years 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, we have held thirteen drama festivals where forty four dramas were presented. (See attached List). Initially, as per an OSA national executive resolution in 2008, SriGopal Mohanty was appointed as the sole Coordinator to organize RDF in different regions of North America. In 2010 at his initiative, a three member Coordination Committee was formed consisting of: Sandip K. Dasverma, Sri Gopal Mohanty and Brajendra Panda (Chair). This was confirmed by a resolution of OSA General Body Meeting at Dallas Convention, 2011. At the end of 2011, Sri Gopal Mohanty withdrew from the Committee but remained an active advisor. In 2012, Brajendra Panda also retired from the team. In Seattle convention of 2012, two great drama lovers Priyadarshi Dash and Priyaranjan Mohapatra were nominated to the drama Coordination Committee with Sandip Dasverma, as Chair.

Over years, four flexible regions have been identified: Eastern, Northern/ North Eastern, Central/ Northern(Chicago) and South Western. There have always been attempts to cover other areas. We are eagerly eyeing on Atlanta and surroundings and the Pacific Coast. A most successful and promising development was this year’s Pacific South Western RDF held for the first time at Woodside, CA. It is also hoped that a RDF will be held soon in the Atlantic South Eastern region at Charlotte, NC. Three more RDFs are also due to happen, one at Toronto, Canada, the other two at Boston, MA and Austin, TX in September, 2013.

Concept:

The original concept of Regional Drama Festival was:

1. To revive the community contact via visiting families from outside the area and staying with host families of the visited area, like initial OSA convention days.

2. To hold low cost regional mini-OSA gatherings, so as to enhance comradery among members and friendship among kids of the families in different neighboring states & chapters in the region.

3. To develop inherent and latent drama skills (acting, script writing, prop preparation, music etc.) in a region.

4. To promote leadership growth via organizing a multi-chapter event.

Subsequently from experience we have added another two goals:

1. To encourage participation of kids so as to exposed them to Odia language and culture.

2. To ensure that visiting teams are each offered 5 to 10 minutes for program of their kids.

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In summary, the objective of RDF is to develop a closer relation among communities of people from Odisha residing in a region, through a festival with a special focus on drama.

Current Status:

In its fifth year RDF is in the verge of a takeoff, with 46 dramas staged in multiple regions, including two this year. The overall experience indicates that RDF has become part of an event of the host Chapter in order to make it financially viable as well as to attract a larger audience. This approach is becoming successful. The initial sluggishness in implementing RDF is withering away and community members in various regions are getting more and more interested and enthused. Members newly initiated into drama seem to enjoy the freshness and novelty of drama world. In due course families, at least in participating Chapters, are developing rapport among themselves. The expected interest, that RDF was to generate in OSA, is already surfacing.

Benefits accrued:

1. An Odiadrama Yahoogroup(odiadramagroup@yahoogroups.com) has been formed connecting the Odia drama enthusiasts all over North America. It is a discussion group to monitor, assess RDF and brings ideas for the future.

2. A few Odia drama playwrites are emerging in NA,often depicting the American experience, for instance, Gagan Panigrahi of Toronto, Manoj Mohapatra and Salil Mishra of Chicago, Birendra Jena of Cleveland, Swapnalata Rath(Mishra) of MI. Dr. Birendra Jena has already published a collection of plays – “ Dura Pahada O Anyanya Nataka”. He mentions in its forward, specifically that his difficulty in finding script to take part in RDF led him to write them.

3. OSA Conventions rotate from city to city of different areas and are relatively expensive to attend and thus cannot provide opportunity for many to attend these on a regular basis. RDF plays a complementary role to fill the vacuum and provides opportunity for interacting with other members in a region and participating in cultural activities. As a consequence new community leaders are sprouting.

4. The contacts during RDF, between people living in the neighboring states is creating release of positive energy, initiatives and communications, leading to various other initiatives. e.g.

a. Odia Poetry reading via conference calls.

b. Odia Poetry reading in Radio program in NJ/NY via conference call or skype.

c. Publication of an Odia magazine “Pratishruti” from North America, etc.

Lessons Learned:

1. It is very difficult to have a drama when the participants live more than 30 min apart. Though some have taken the innovative step like doing voicing remotely, during rehearsals – the flavor of acting while being present in the same physical space, is still far superior. So it

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seems, to have the drama team in one city or within half hour driving distance, is a relevant constraint.

2. The experience when people stay overnight with local families are way better than, when they come and go back the same day. The bonds of even an overnight stay is long lasting.

3. All festivals should have children participation, to keep the kids excited, involved and part of parent’s cultural life and milieu.

4. The drama festivals can’t be held in cities, where population of Odia families is 50 or less, because of shortage of audience. Most halls have a capacity of 200 or more. Costs are of course additional constraint, as of now.

5. The RDFs in North/North East should be preferably held before October 15th. This helps avoid snow storms. Two festivals scheduled in November already suffered for this reason, as the visiting teams could not come to Easetern RDF in 2011 (NJ) & 2012(Washington DC).

A few issues:

Two issues are coming up which need to be addressed for sustainability of RDF.

1. Cooperation and commitment of Chapter Presidents in RDF

2. Financial grant to OSA Chapters for RDF and their viability.

1. Cooperation and Commitment of Chapter Presidents for RDF

The core of RDF success is in the hands of the OSA Chapter Presidents. But for their complete cooperation & support RDF would not have come this far.

They are the key figures in the OSA organization and should be credited overwhelmingly for the success of RDF.

Realizing their importance and remembering the fact that they are elected, it is urged that they consider RDF to be PART of Chapter activities just like Kumar Purnima, Saraswati Puja etc. For smooth operations and cost effectiveness the following steps are most helpful and should be taken as far as possible:

● Select a RDF coordinator early who is enthusiastic and proactive.

● Before beginning of each year give calls to the other chapters Presidents in the region and decide a mutually convenient date & location (city and chapter).

● The reservation of a hall in time, preferably six months in advance so that it is easy to get a good but adequately priced (rents vary widely) hall and it gives enough time to out of town teams to organize. Decide it (i) between February -April for holding the Festival the Fall season and (ii) by the end of October for holding it in the spring season.

● Allow enough practice time and patience in order to encourage new participants to join who are necessary for sustenance of RDF in future.

2. Financial grant from OSA National to Chapters for RDF and viability:

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● The finances are a matter of concern for some small chapters. So far the festivals are being done by the Chapters along with one of their regular programs – thus the costs ($2000 on average) are absorbed by the local Chapters, except $500 grant from OSA National.

● It will be a good idea if OSA raises these grants to $1000 by raising special funds. Chapters can sell Ad spaces in their brochures & raise donations from the local enthusiasts for the rest.

● OSA grants are a way of encouraging events which will expose new participants/ members to OSA activities, similar to conventions.

● OSA national executives would like to have around five, new Life /Five year members for each festival which we think is a fair expectation.

● Attempts should be made to have a general insurance in OSA National – so each chapter does not have to buy a separate insurance coverage for the hall. OSA National President & RDF organizing Chapter President can co-ordinate and save significant costs.

● A goal of RDF is to make it self financed with some consistent support, like OSA convention today via Ads and sponsorship.

Relevant info:

1. If you are a small town-er, with a few other Odia families around – you should visit nearest RDF first as a visitor/audience. Then you can form your own drama team from among neighbors. RDF is open to all, even those who are not members of OSA.

2. When you and your few friends, are ready to stage a drama, help in getting a script (fit for number of female and male actors enthusiasts available in your area), dress (e.g. a Odisha constable’s uniform) or sound (like a typical sound of cycle rickshaw in a Cuttack street), are only a phone call or e-mail away. Info is available with the experienced group members, who are eager to share their expertise. You contact them via the "Odia Drama Group" odiadramagroup@yahoogroups.com, to access resources, seek help or share problems to be resolved.

(*Note: Some time in July 2007, after Detroit convention, we stayed at SriGopal babu’s home to visit nearby Nigra Falls. While there, the RDF bug was in my mind and I discussed with him. He liked it. Subsequently, OSA junior most OSA office came my way - completely unexpectedly. I had a chance to give shape to my dream project. SriGopal babu after Toronto convention, agreed to coordinate it. The rest as they say is history).

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List of Dramas presented in RDFs since 2009

Serial No. Year Coordinator

Host Chapter Drama Title Script Director

1st 2009 Loknath Patra

DFW Orissa Society, A part of South West Chapter Athacha Chanakya Tapas Sahoo

2009 -Do- -Do- Sahitya Gadia Manthana

Sikhanda Sathpathy

Sikhanda Sathpathy

2009 -Do- -Do- Ea Ki Nataka Brajendra Panda

2009 -Do- -Do- Mom, Ma Au Madam Gopal Mohapatra

2nd 2009 Debaki N. Choudhury

Washington DC Chapter

Sri Ganesh Geetinatya Pratap Dash

2009 -Do- Gua Nimantrana Ritu Mohapatra

2009 -Do- Pathoi Bahu Pratap Dash

3rd 2009 Jogesh Panda Michigan Chapter Bananasika Gagan Panigrahi

2009 -Do- Mahisa Mardini Swapnalata Mishra

4th 2010

Arun Mohanty/ Nishikanta Sahoo

OSA New England Abhijan

Jayashree Mohapatra

2010 -Do- -Do- Dasanana@2010:Naka kata Upakhyan

Mrs. Ranjita Mishra(Mahapatra)

2010 -Do- -Do- Dinu Kaka Thik Kahuthile

Jayashree Mohapatra

5th 2010 Saroj Mohapatra

DFW Orissa Society, A part of South West Chapter

Phasigala Tume Natabara Tapan Padhi

2010 -Do- -Do- Habani Na, Habana Aau Gopal Mohapatra

2010 -Do- -Do- Saura Jagatare Ulkaa Paata Brajendra Panda

6th 2010

Parasar Mishra/ Jibanjit Tripathy CanOSA Emiti Bi Hue Basant Mohapatra

2010 -Do- -Do- Cha Man Atha Gunth Gagan & Sabita Panigrahi

7th 2010 Gyna Pattnaik Chicago Chapter Aayee Dhoom Diwali

2910 -Do- -Do- Gosein Mahatma Swapnalata Mishra (Rath) Swapnalata Mishra

2010 -Do- -Do- Uchit Charcha Birendra Jena Raju Pati

2010 -Do- -Do- Jaha Hale Hau Srikanta Mishra Manoj Mahapatra

8th 2011

Saswata Mohapatra / Arata Rout

Ohio Chapter NAtaka Prastuti

Srikanta Mishra Srikanta Mishra

2011 -Do- -Do- Bahurupee Natya Swapnalata Swapnalata Mishra

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Kendra Mishra (Rath) (Rath)

2011 -Do- -Do- Operation Successful Basanta Mohapatra Basanta Mohapatra

2011 -Do- -Do- Shesha Bichara Niranjan Mishra Niranjan Misra

9th 2011 Lalatendu Mohanty

NY/NJ Chapter Bapi Baha Heba

Dillip Behera, Mamta Sahoo Dilip Behera

2011 -Do- -Do- GalANi Kapura DharithA KanA

Ranjita Mohapatra & Eva Mohanty

Ranjita Mohapatra & Eva Mohanty

2011 -Do- -Do- ChAtashALI

Debaki Nandan Chowdhury

Debaki Nandan Chowdhury

10th 2011 Gyan Patnaik/ Bob Parida

Chicago Chapter Operation Successful

Basanta Mohapatra Basanta Mohapatra

2011 -Do- -Do- Kari Karau Thae Muhin

Salil Mishra & Sujata Patnaik

Salil Mishra/Sujata Patnaik

2011 -Do- -Do- Bhasmasura Ipsita Satpathy

11th 2012 Debasis Chand

DFW Orissa Society, A part of South West Chapter Bandhu Mohanty

Sanghamitra 'Thampy' Sahoo

2012 -Do- -Do- Tahele Kie

Prachee Behera (with the help of others)

2012 -Do- -Do- Item Girl Gopal Mohapatra Gopal Mohapatra

2012 -Do- -Do- Mayara Kahani Birendra Jena

Prachee Behera (with the help of others)

2012 -Do- -Do- Payeesara Mayaa, Karuchi Bayaa

Brajendra Panda Brajendra Panda

2012 -Do- -Do- Akala Kushmanda Sukanta Baliarsingh

12th 2012

Swapnalata Rath/ Pitabasa Panda MI Chapter Sahitya chAsa Niyati Mohanty

Abani and Rashmi Patnaik

2012 -Do- -Do- Babajee Kayan kajee Jogesh Panda Jogesh Panda

2012 -Do- -Do- Mukhya Atithi Basanta Mohapatra Basanta Mohapatra

2012 -Do- -Do- Jesaku Tesa Birendra Jena Birendra Jena

13th 2012 Pratap Dash Washington DC Chapter Bhakta Pralhada Baishnab Pani Pratap Dash

2012 -Do- -Do- Bahu KatakiaNi Biraj Dash Lata Mishra

2012 -Do- -Do- Mimira Sahitya Shikhya

Story: Bama C. Mitra, script: Pratap Dash Pratap Dash

14th 2013 Gayatri Joshi/ Kuku Das

California Chapter

Mu American Odiya Kahuchi

Saroj Mohapatra & Sacramento Natak Mandali Saroj Mohapatra

2013 -Do- -Do- Mote Jete Mathibu Maathe BANGers Dillip Praharaj

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Happy Walking to All By Dr. Prasanna Pati

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