Charudutta Panigrahi

The 70s and 80s Calcutta was where the action was. Naxalbari exploding across the state, Siddhartha Shankar Ray hogging headlines dealing with extremism and devising Emergency, Bengal at…

The chutzpah, nerviness and forthrightness of Ganjam society is exemplary. Not many districts in India are so bountiful and yet tenacious in constantly enhancing last mile productivity,…

Humanity is woefully embattled, both internally and externally, and constantly bickering over habitat and moorings. At Mangalajodi, birds from across continents have found their no man’s…

Recently Museums in Odisha have got makeovers and are visitable and welcoming. Before the renovations, the museums were apologies in the name of archives. I hope they continue to shine for…

FOUR brings today’s urbanising Odisha to the screen without trivialising its language or tenor. AAO NXT is showcased as Odisha's first independent OTT platform, and this is the platform’s…

Henceforth the idiom ‘as white as snow’ would seem so much out of place. In coal mining regions of Siberia, the Kuzbass area, the snow is black. The landscape is covered with toxic black…

Odia films have a bright future because it can only rise after touching the nadir. That’s the silver lining for an industry which has for years not seen many original scripts.Stories of…

Odisha had the first SDG budget in 2021-22 with an outlay of Rs 1,34,225 crore. SDG (Sustainable Development Goal) budget mainstreams the SDGs into state policy formulation, strategic and…

Art and culture is the permanent treasure. Its fast depletion is making us poorer every year. In 2022, culture-based explanations for economic development will have to make a comeback in…

You will be surprised to know that to date, Ratha Yatra does not figure in the UNESCO cultural heritage list. We feel slighted because a neighbouring state has got the status and is…