Your idea and concept might be Noble and Great. But that is your personal opinion .

What I have talked about is promoting , prioritizing , recognizing and nurturing our Own Artists by conferring such awards or recognition. Culture of Odisha is not get promoted by conferring awards to outsiders ( though it can be done once in a while which is OK ) but only when every Odia who live outside and in Odisha becomes the ambassador of its culture by promoting it and its people. I can also show you many in similar vein how important and critical it is to promote our own people in order to promote culture. Also Award is a tiny and minute part in promoting culture. But it play a big role in promoting Artists and his spirit of contribution. Those who have already conferred with the above Award in last 3 years don’t need further recognition in my opinion because they have gone much above that. Rather such trends are mostly practised in Odisha to RAISE FUNDS from the corporate to hold the ceremony by tagging the ceremony with National Level Artists.

Out of 3 times, if at least once such award had been given to any Odia , I would not have made such comments nor you would have been provoked with your arrogancy. The reason what you have given looks like an excuse and meaningless with no logic. Had your read my comment properly , you would have accepted the criticism positively and talked about both giving to Artists of odisha and outside.

It seems since you have all of the information and ideas behind any award ( why it is given and why it is establised etc. ) , I am sure you must have also collected all the information/data who are promoting which award and others before you challenge them here about what they have done in promoting music or artists or awards . I hardly care , if this website is commercial or non commercial . I also failed to understand what and how this has to do with the discussion going here. Won’t it be great if you yourself practise what you preach others ( I mean the cribbing , critcizing and parochial outlook etc ! ) ?

While every effort by any one in this direction is praiseworhty, but I found this website’s effort is one of the most successful one and the best one. During my last 3 years of visit I have seen how this website has been improving and growing. And on the world wide web perhpas the best Music Website which has promoted the music of odisha. A great commendable effort.

Regarding NGOs you know better than me that they also operate on Public/Donor’s funds ( Not free at all and is a business as well ) and how NGOs are operating in Odisha and India.

I will appreciate , whenever you participate in this kind of discussion, please tone down and refrain from personal attacks ( doing so may sound cheap ) which can keep this platform healthy and encourage others as well to participate and put their views.

How parochial in outlook!! Do you mean to say that giving the award only to Odisa artists will promote the cause?? Well, in the same vein, the Queen should not be knighting any non-UK citizens ! The idea of any award is to promote culture not only within the state , but outside. How do we promote culture outside the state, if prominent persons who have contributed to the same field are not honoured? It has been only 3 years since the award, and you guys are already cribbing. Such attitude is the reason we Odiyas have never made it far. How may of you have actually helped promote an award? Now that an organisation is actually doing that in Odisa, we go all out to criticize them.

[content edited due to nature of personal attack] This website is purely commercial , on the line of business unit. Please do some NGO work yourself first, before criticizing others doing some good work.