Charudutta Panigrahi

The world has shut down and everyone is home bound. On this Utkal Divas on April 1 , we need to join our souls, knit our families even stronger and resolve that we would do our best not to…

What are you saying? What social distance? When social media was fermenting in-person social distance, corona accentuated it. For a long time to come, there would be an inherent fear…

The statesman's life is nothing short of a full-bodied feature film. It could have been a blockbuster. Perhaps the only superman, who ever lived. Many have started working on such a project…

Chivalry in real life and real-life situations has always been rare. When you decide to renounce a business empire and plunge into nation building, you not only get into the cesspool of…

JSW is the current metal magnet sweeping Odisha's alluring mines. With the help of Odisha, the group should be looking at a growth of at least 2X in the coming 3-5 years. Good for them and…

There cannot be any earmarked time for nationalism. Because nationalism entails loyalty to a nation, a group of people who share a particular origin and characteristics, language, customs,…

Odisha's population in 2020 will be approximately 4.8 crore and is slated to rise much faster in the coming two-three years due to rapid industrialisation, spurt in mining activities,…

We don't need platitudes, sermons or superheroes to 'centre' us. This centring is that of humanity and our faith in ourselves and our society. P. Kamraju of Digapahandi Hospital spearheaded…

After a long time, not since the major Panchayati Raj reforms were undertaken in the 90s, the plan to create 450 new revenue circles came as a bold governance step to prepare Odisha for mega…

I am not writing this because he was well connected but because I felt connected to him. I had a brief but memorable meeting with him more than a decade and a half ago in New York. We were…