Anil Dhir

The loss of a friend in adulthood has many meanings. It is the loss of someone with whom you had shared your life, thoughts and activities. We often have friends from our student days with…

Bhubaneswar: The recent hullaballoo over the discovery of another set of silver ingots buried under the Emar Mutt at Puri created a lot of speculation. Earlier, 522 silver ingots worth…

Khariar Road: Freedom fighter and Gandhian Raojibhai Rathore died at his residence at Khariar Road on Wednesday. He was 99. He was  not exactly the typecast kind of a freedom fighter,…

Bhubaneswar: Besides several temples and tanks, Bhubaneswar’s Old Town also has a few forgotten colonial vestiges. The Old Dak Bungalow at the beginning of the Mahatab Road is one such…

Bhubaneswar: One of the oldest Rock Art sites of the state, Bhima Mandali near Naktideul in Sambalpur District is barely recognisable now. An INTACH team led by Dr. Biswajit Mohanty had…

Bhubaneswar:  The four stone beams that were excavated from the excavated area of the Sibatirtha Mutt, just 50 metres away from the wall of the Lingaraj Temple, were kept near the Gadi of…

Bhubaneswar: The Suka Sari complex in the Old Town has now been taken over by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and all work on the Ekamra Kshetra beautification has stopped with the…

Bhubaneswar: Biju Babu’s first spell as the Chief Minister of Odisha lasted just 27 months; in spite of his short stint, he left an indelible mark in the history of emergent Odisha. He ran a…

The Battle of Red Hill was fought on May 20-29, 1944. The small hillock was on Tiddim Road, 16 km away from Imphal, Manipur. The surroundings, with its reddish soil, represented the farthest…

On a corner of the busy market street in front of Lingaraj temple in Bhubaneswar, 75-year-old Debaraj Barik has been running his small hair-cutting saloon since 1959. In fact, his is the…