In a truly shocking turn of events, renowned Bollywood and Indian Pop singer Sona Mohapatra was found dead near Bada Danda in Puri.

Mohapatra was once again a subject of selective outrage from pseudo-puritan and criminally dogmatic Odia conservatives on social media for her rendition of a popular Odia song. With no idea how music across boundaries works or what the concept of a ‘personal rendition or cover’ is, the mob whose collective live singing experience is restricted to their own bathrooms then proceeded to give the international singing star tips on music.

Headlining the @PaddyFieldsFest & here’s an ode to my roots in #Odisha .

Ahe Nilo Soilo is a transcendental song & everyone on #SonaLive feels the magic of this creation when we perform it. 🔴 pic.twitter.com/8r9BfzNY8V — SONA (@sonamohapatra) June 16, 2018

Things turned worse outside social media however when a mob descended on Mohapatra’s room at Mayfair in the early hours of Monday. The Rangabati singer was in Puri with her family for a Raja festival getaway.

Mohapatra was woken up by a rhythmic chant of ‘Bande Utkala Janani’ before being handcuffed, gagged and taken to the Jagannath Temple.

The mob, believed to be numbering between 15 to 20 pricks, instead of giving her the gift of a quick death, decided to implement the brutal Odia Extermination® techniques that even the Mayans dreaded to use for its barbarity.

Mohapatra was ungagged, her mouth held open by two men (or women; insert as per preference) before being choked to death with manuscripts from Fakir Mohan Senapati, Upendra Bhanja and Sarala Das dipped in Ghanta Tarkari. After Mohapatra breathed her last breath, the mob broke into a song and dance routine. It was Chhau Dance appreciation week on Twitter, so you can imagine how fu**k*ng ridiculous that sight must have been.

Miraculously though, Mohapatra, despite being deader than Nelson Mandela, managed to post her defence on Twitter with some justifiable and plausible points.

1) Yes, that is always the endeavour, to learn & try & improve.

2) Not the easiest task considering it’s not really my 1rst language or even 2nd.

3) Does it occur to anyone that customising each live set for each part of the country like I do is quite a gargantuan task? https://t.co/zTydt1Y5MR — SONA (@sonamohapatra) June 18, 2018

Odias, despite losing their shi*t for 24 hours a day because no one actually truly appreciates their wonderfully diverse and exceptionally beautiful state, were quick to put down a singer who has put Odisha on the world map.

Her rendition of ‘Rangabati’ went viral across all platforms, generating a deluge of interest for the tiny state of Odisha from all across the globe. Speaking of which, the talented Cuttack born singer faced a similar backlash back then from overscrupulous Odias but that did not stop it from going viral.

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