Recently I met a close friend, well-heeled Odia and with a perennially professed Odia love. I was quite shocked when…
It was not that we never chased shortcuts in life, even in the early parts of history. Humans have a…
I attended COP 26 and sensed the urgency, the helplessness and the laxity in approaches and preparedness by the various…
Dalma, undeniably Odisha’s first cuisine branded food enterprise, is trailblazing. Megadiverse but grossly understated, Odisha’s cuisine suffered perennial anonymity. Dalma…
A good number in India is aware of the Third Floor (TF) in Odisha. Specifically in business and policy circles.…
Akshaya Mohanty is one of the best-known music composers, litterateur and promoter of Odisha who continues to straddle the Odia…
I am a deep-dyed votary of Khati. The closest expression in English would be a commune. Sociologists have discovered a…
Slangs do not mean cuss words or foul language. Rather these are a set of colloquial words and phrases. They…
I have always compared the art of her performance with the art of writing elegant hieroglyphs. You could sense the…
Glash was not a melody party but a rock band – the group of passionate, gutsy youngsters would often plead.…