In conservative Dhenkanal, the fascination for tipples among the young population stands out as odd. Once the staple of the...

Childhood memories - some hazy, some sharply contoured and some imagined and exaggerated - are a serviceable reference point for...

"I am rediscovering myself. And I am indeed amused by what I am," says the friend without a trace of...

The nostalgic notion of Dhenkanal as a peaceful and laidback town happy in its scenic surrounds takes a battering within...

Hate them as much as you like. Summon the choicest words to describe them - unintelligent, ill-informed, mean, malicious, bhakt,...

(As trolls of the virtual universe seek to take over our real one, it’s time to ponder to what the...

Forbearance, a factor critical to sustainability of democracy, is collapsing across the world. Maybe for good reason. Democracies catered to...

The rise of populism has led many to paint a dystopian vision of India's future. Like all dystopias it is...

The end of secularism, at least the version of it peddled to us so far, was perhaps inevitable. It sounded...

The stubborn refusal of the Congress top leadership to revive the party is confounding indeed. Eight years after its biggest...