Proud to be an Odiya...????....!!!

Odissa...isn't it the way it should be spelled????how many times have we spelled it correctly...???Being and Odiya has made us feel proud how many times??being a part of culture that's over 1300AD old ,does it cultivates in us any respect for the mother state??I am not asking this question to each and every Odiya within the country ,I am asking this to me too??....Since Childhood I have seen people pronouncing my name as the want,its not swatii n its not swathi..its my name..that my parents gifted me with love with affection...!

Have u met people in life who ask u..."where are u from?"..n u say.."I am from Odisa"and they reply..OOOh...where is Orissa?...I Feel sorry for them..coz the have reduced to a mere toad of well...!!

People know Puri...but they dont know where it is located,.They know Ashoka...but they dnt know that his KAlinga,the famous utkal is today's Odissa..

I know I am getting aggressive..but now after given the right to think..freedom to act..I am free to express my view...

This my question to each and every Odiya person outside .why they hesitate to speak in Odiya .Its a culture we need to prserve , a language we need to teach.I have known parents who didn't even bothered to teach their children the mother tongue they cherished once..

People  are there who being Odiya dnt know to speak it,dnt know the art to write it !Just to portray they are from some high ly sophiosticated venture...and Odiya is too low for them to speak...

So many guud writers and poets:

SriPranab pattnaik,Sri Fakir Mohan,Sri Upendra ....unending lists..Sri Gopabandhu..and many more..........http://www.orissa.net/Links/eminentpersons.asp

Suggest this link...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriya_literature

I remember I had friends..who being Odiya hesitated to speak !

Respect  ur mother tongue and then only u can be a Indian for true...dnt force any one to imbibe ur culture...but dnt give it up..too...Its Odissi..that the most difficult dance people say...its ashoka...whose pillar whose chakra..is symbol of our nation...be proud..to be the reason of national flag.......

Be proud to be a Odiya..Be proud to be an INDIAN..love ur language..love ur culture,,,n love ur nation..!