What happens in Odisha stays in Odisha.
No, not as in Vegas. In fact, Odisha is as far removed from
Vegas as Manmohan Singh is from Dolly Bindra. The thing is that media houses do
not generally give a fuck about what is going on in the eastern state which is,
at best, an algebra problem for most people. They just don’t know about it.
They can probably point it out on a map, and that is the
best case scenario. If you attempt to collect details about the state from them,
they would most likely do a Rahul Gandhi and start proclaiming that Odisha is
larger than UP and Rajasthan combined.
Some have this notion that it is a part of the neighboring
West Bengal owing to the linguistic similarities, or that a
now-imprisoned-politician from another neighboring state once was at the helm
of its affairs. True, both the states are absolute-and-perennial underdogs in
matters of money and literacy, but that doesn't warrant such bullshit that both
are one and the same.
