Understanding Krishna Is Understanding Life
Understanding Krishna is unconventional. He is ageless. We have to grow higher to be a contemporary of Krishna’s ways. Much and much higher. Because He is puzzling, confusing,…
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Of Climate Voters & Party Manifestos
Climate impact is yet to be internalised even by the people who are haplessly at the receiving end. Climate change remains a buzzword and a distant theory. Not difficult to imagine, it is…
Will Restricting Supply of NRTs Lead To Desired The Outcome Of Curbing Tobacco…
The health ministry of India has proposed to take place nicotine replacement therapies (NRT) under Schedule K so that in future they would be available only on the prescription of authorized…
The Loneliness Of Odisha Budget
Leave aside studying, no one in Odisha or outside even talks about Odisha budget. None of the numerous management/technical institutions, the academia in Bhubaneswar and around the state…
Inconclusive COP27: Why Odisha Needs To Become Its Own Climate Warrior?
Bhubaneswar: Despite the death knell being sounded, we are still caught up in our pettiness, callousness and foolish avarice. Even as I write this column, the much-hyped COP 27 has been…
Freedom, Orgasm & Society
There is no reason to observe an International Female Orgasm Day (August 8), but for the skulking of the society. We respond to enforcements and drills more often than to internalization.…
Odisha Remembers Joanna Williams
Joanna Gottfried Williams was her full name, and the art of South Asia was her first love. Visual art in all forms – folk art, textiles, paintings, palm leaf paintings. History of art so…
Odisha Budget 2022-23: First Glance
FY 2022-2023 will see Odisha handling an outlay of Rs 2-lakh crore which hints at it being an outcome budget, at least in setting a norm, if not a whole hog rigor at this stage. As 5T &…
Stunning Shreya, Our Global Emissary
Shreya Lenka (camera name Sriya) and Great Thunberg are almost the same age. One rattles humanity’s responsibility for existence and the other poised to drown the world in the Korean pop…
Satyajit Ray: Master Of Everything, He Was Meant For The Stratosphere
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…