He is the editor of Samadrusti, a fortnightly political and social news magazine in the Odia language published from Bhubaneswar.

[1] Sudhir Pattnaik was a member of a research team supported by the Planning Commission of the government of India that produced a March 2005 258-page report on "Development Policies and Rural Poverty in Orissa: Macro Analysis and Case Studies".

Usha, former chief justice of the Kerala High Court and convened by Angana P. Chatterji and Mihir Desai, which investigated communal violence in Orissa, publishing a report on the subject in September 2006.

The episodes document aspects of life in Orissa including forced moves, pollution and human rights abuses.

He claims that Anil Agarwal, chairman of Vedanta Resources, has proposed establishing the university as a ruse to gain land to be used for mining and industry.