Charudutta Panigrahi

Last Mile Banking: Odisha Aces It With A Bank For Each Panchayat By 2020

In a welcome move, the Odisha government is set to ‘bank’ the 4,597 unbanked gram panchayats (GPs) of the state.…

October 23, 2018

Bhubaneswar Art Trail 2018: Innovative, Universal & Marquee

The Bhubaneswar Art Trail (BAT) is a unique art initiative in the country, aiming at creating a creative space around…

October 8, 2018

Odisha’s Intimacy With Art Forms Deeply Embedded In Its Cultural Past

Art is the proper task of life, said Nietzsche and Bertolt Brecht thinks that “if art reflects life, it does so…

August 12, 2018

Raghunath Panigrahi: The Golden Voice Of Geeta Govinda

Eminent Indian classical singer and music director Pandit Raghunath Panigrahi was born today, August 10, in 1932. The ambassador of 'Geeta Govinda',…

August 10, 2018

When Annapurna Was Odisha’s Answer To New York’s Broadway

Odisha had its own parallel of Broadway way back in 1930s. Known as Annapurna Theatre it was Eton of Odia…

August 8, 2018

Devadasis Of Lord Jagannath: A Lost Tradition Of Divine Romance

Among the 36 different services (seva) offered to the Lord, the rituals performed by Devadasis, also known as Maharis, was…

July 19, 2018

A Son’s Requiem

The Hebrew saying, “Say not in grief he is no more - but live in thankfulness that he was” could…

June 17, 2018

I Meet My Bau Every Moment

I called my mother 'Bau'. Probably I am talking of the only person in this existence who had been my…

May 14, 2018

Sailing Away…

Meandering river Blue waves slithering, Lissome maiden, Nimble-footed on the stone Lighting every creek, With her coy outpour On life’s…

March 20, 2018

Biju Babu – The Indomitable Romantic

When was the last when you met a freedom fighter, a business tycoon, an innovator, a dashing pilot, a science…

March 5, 2018