Charudutta Panigrahi

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…

Akshaya Mohanty is one of the best-known music composers, litterateur and promoter of Odisha who continues to straddle the Odia social life for more than six decades. A household name in…

I am a deep-dyed votary of Khati. The closest expression in English would be a commune. Sociologists have discovered a distinct pattern in communes. Richard Sosis and Eric Bressler had…

Slangs do not mean cuss words or foul language. Rather these are a set of colloquial words and phrases. They are regional languages or terms, mostly using typical vernacular style of usage…

I have always compared the art of her performance with the art of writing elegant hieroglyphs. You could sense the mystery and see the beauty of complete submission to the Supreme. Because…

Glash was not a melody party but a rock band – the group of passionate, gutsy youngsters would often plead. The dogmatic environment couldn’t see the difference between the two. Odisha and…