Pre-history: The first e-group of Odias/Odishans (in the US) is ornet which started in 1989 as a mailing list and then became a list at Columbia University, then a yahoo group, and is now a Google group at https://groups.google.com/g/ornet . This group did not have a special focus on Odisha development, but did discuss them. Since then there are many Odisha related e-groups around the world; but they don't necessarily focus on Odisha development.
History: This bulletin board is conceived as a generalization (and in some sense a continuation) of some individual blog activities related to Odisha development. Some of the initial individual blogs were:
Later these blogs were updated less frequently and the bloggers moved to Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/odishagrowth and various Odisha Development related albums were created in Facebook. An index of those albums is at:
Slowly we will add specific links to these earlier sites so as to make exploration of individual topics easier.
History: This bulletin board is conceived as a generalization (and in some sense a continuation) of some individual blog activities related to Odisha development. Some of the initial individual blogs were:
Later these blogs were updated less frequently and the bloggers moved to Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/odishagrowth and various Odisha Development related albums were created in Facebook. An index of those albums is at:
- https://www.facebook.com/notes/odishalin...5126952678 (short link: http://bit.ly/fbOdisha )
- See also https://docs.google.com/document/d/10_-O...M5gxIUmkg/
Slowly we will add specific links to these earlier sites so as to make exploration of individual topics easier.