ପୃଷ୍ଠା:Aama Madhusudan.pdf/୪୦୫

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ENCOURAGEMENT

I am the first M.A. of the Oriya race, the first Oriya vokil and now the first Oriya Advocate, the first Oriya visitor to Europe, the first Oriya member of the provincial and viceregal Legislative Councils, the first Oriya minister and the first Indian minister to resign office. My race is the most backward and yet the first graduate of no race in India did all I have done. The first graduate of Bengal died a pensioned Duputy Magistrate. I am now in my eightieth year and have been adjudicated an insolvent, but though I am eighty years old, My mission of life today is what it was half a century ago and that mission is to bring Utkal to the notice of the World. Utkal Tannery landed me on insolvency, but it earned for Utkal the admiration of the whole civilised world. Students should aim at elevating Utkal. If the first graduate could do all this, much can be done by succeeding generations, if they realised their responsibility not as individuals but as members of a nation.

Yours sincerely
 
Sd. M.S. Das
 
ଉତ୍କଳ ନାରୀ ସମ୍ମିଳନୀକୁ ପ୍ରଦତ୍ତ ବାର୍ତ୍ତା (୧-୮-୧୯୩୧)

Conference meets tomorrow. Objects to determine the duty and line of action of Oriya woman to promote interest of society and Oriya race. I highly appreciate the honour done to me in seeking my advice on this occasion. But I feel incompetent to offer any advice worth the serious consideration of the conference. In Orissa, Man has treated woman as if she had been created to do service to man and God did not assign to her any special duty in composition of nation. The advice of any man is irrelevant. A few women have joined man in political agitation of the day. They serve man in his political ambition. Whther woman serves man in domestic life or political life it is a subordinate position. Both ignore the Divine object in creating women. You should enquire who has made European nations what they are, father or mother and then decide what is your duty and what should be your line of action. May God help you in your deleberation is the sincere prayer of M.S. Das.

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