The role of history as preserver of shared identity often gets underplayed. As does its importance as the factor that...

The remarks of outsiders on Odias can be unbearably patronising at times. Their nice words don't warm the cockles of...

Asmita. It is the luminescence within, that soft glow of self-belief and quiet assuredness about one's state of being. It...

Chanakya, wherever he is, would be raging at his name being dragged into acts of all kinds of political unscrupulousness,...

Trust nostalgia to be the overwhelming flavour at any alumni meet. There are many stories, some over worn, some inaccurate...

  The Odisha government's decision to press ahead with its move for a legislative council has been greeted with cynicism...

Bali Jatra holds a seductive allure for Suryanarayan Satpathy. Seventy-two and a bit infirm in body, the resident of Mehndipir...

Rituals succeed where history fails. Bits of our past survives as collective memory through them. History looks for evidence, they...

The boat drifts gently into water and struggles for balance as the feeble current underneath tries to lend it a...

The vast sea, intimate and intimidating, meditative and moody, lies yonder as the sadhava says goodbye to his dear ones on the...