Charudutta Panigrahi

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…

Aristotle firmly believed that human beings are by nature political animals. I don’t want to get to the 'why' part now. Whether we accept it or not, we are bound by politics in Odisha.…

Recently I met a close friend, well-heeled Odia and with a perennially professed Odia love. I was quite shocked when the friend mentioned, in a refrain that “she had not found any…

It was not that we never chased shortcuts in life, even in the early parts of history. Humans have a restless tendency to use their brains and find ways and methods to beat a system, which…

I attended COP 26 and sensed the urgency, the helplessness and the laxity in approaches and preparedness by the various geographies of the world. I re-realised the utter necessity of…

Dalma, undeniably Odisha’s first cuisine branded food enterprise, is trailblazing. Megadiverse but grossly understated, Odisha’s cuisine suffered perennial anonymity. Dalma chain promoted by…

A good number in India is aware of the Third Floor (TF) in Odisha. Specifically in business and policy circles. Never before in public governance has a floor of a building been so ubiquitous…