Chandra Shekhar Chitrala

Thirtieth of January is marked as Shaheed Divas, or Martyr's Day in India, the reason being that this was the day Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated. A child in the seventies and a youth in…

I think I will never be able to get over the shock that I received when instead of seeing a shiny new iPhone, my eyes fell on a rather battered cake of Rin and half a cake of Vim in the…

Making our children ready to face the future is arguably the biggest challenge that faces our country. The second being creation of employment opportunities for the youth now. Education…

Last week was very interesting in the world of social media. While the FB/WhatsApp/Instagram behemoth went down at least a couple of times, with the first outage lasting over six hours, it…

The last couple of months has seen me participating in three separate elections - one as a contestant, one as a returning officer and the latest one as a voter. All three were unique in…

The recent spell of rains once again exposed the shortcomings of the civic infrastructure at Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. Local news channels were replete with visuals of waterlogged roads and…

Though I have never been a formal teacher, invariably every Teachers Day, I receive a few messages - over the phone or on social media, thanking me and wishing me on this day. It was the…

One of the reasons why Hinduism faces ridicule from monotheistic religions is the plethora of gods and goddesses in its pantheon - upwards of 30 million as per some texts. While there are…

As someone fascinated by technology, reading about the oldest computer in the world was a revelation. More than 120 years ago, in 1900, a shipwreck was discovered off the coast of the Greek…

As India celebrates its 75th Independence Day, close by in Afghanistan, the Taliban are poised to retake control of the country. And in all probability, they will portray it as getting…