Guest Column

I had an appointment with a legend called Dr Manoj Das at six in the evening. Slightly before time, I was ushered into the Spartan abode of this literary ambassador of Odisha–turned–culture curator of the country. My family reference…

India’s first-ever soft landing on the moon, which was to yield the “Kennedy moment” for us, did create another unforgettable image in the shape of Prime Minister Narendra Modi consoling ISRO chief who broke down when Chandrayaan-2 lander…

In all the hullaballoo of Emar Mutt’s demolition in Puri, what was forgotten and overlooked was that it had many branches all over the state; and was the fountainhead of many smaller mutts. Among the many smaller branches in different…

India is considered to be a water-stressed country. The situation is getting worse. The annual per capita availability of water in India was 6008 cubic metres when the country achieved independence in 1947. It came down drastically during…

Indeed, nothing like this has been seen on Indian stage in a long time. I was spell bound by the sheer intimacy of Vinay (Pathak) with the role he essayed in the play 'Nothing Like Lear'. He wanted to say even more and with boundless…

We all know that Raag Pahadi was Khayyam’s favourite and the composer clearly played favourites. His compositions were like brooks flowing through mountain terrains and spangled contented. No wonder Raag Pahadi is born out of the Himalayas.…

It was Wing Commander Karori Lal Bhatia, not Biju Patnaik who made the first Srinagar landing. In the aftermath of the Jammu and Kashmir action by the Centre, the internet and newspapers are agog with the story of Biju Babu having made the…

We need not build a new Odisha every time. A target based approach with timelines is the simplest and the best way to achieve all round development. A transformed Odisha can always be the ‘new’ Odisha. The government has set a management…

I can’t imagine Odisha being a breakthrough state and a $1 trillion economy without harnessing the rich west Odisha. The western part of Odisha has deep-seated cultural identity, rootedness coupled with rich natural resources for the…

The state is stitching together a development agenda for 2036 – towards hundred years of Odisha state formation. FRA (Forest Rights Act) presents an opportunity to set up a new paradigm of development for tribals and forest dwellers by…