Manisha Mishra

Bhubaneswar:  Are you sure you have not just stored coronavirus in your purse or wallet or locker? An everyday interaction with money is inevitable. One of the aspects that many of us might…

“Mohabbat hai kya cheez,humko batao Yeh kisne shuruki, hume bhi sunao!” Undoubtedly, Rishi if we take Bollywood. He came. He saw. He conquered. Not one but a billion hearts in India,…

Luigi Pirandello in his play ‘Six Characters In Search Of An Author’ says: “When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be…

The coronavirus outbreak has resulted in certain words and phrases becoming popular worldwide. So much as that breaking the chain or flattening the curve has now kind of become part of our…

Trapped in the lockdown and fears of COVID-19 virus gripping our lives, most of us are bound to feel like Malorie in Bird Box. To draw a reel parallel: we are exactly in the middle of river…

“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.” These immortal lines of British writer George Eliot might no longer capture the mood of contemporary times, when people,…

Quarantine. Lockdown. Self-Isolation. Of late, these have kind of become everyday terms. Since the coronavirus threat gripped our lives, certain words and expressions have gained currency.…

When Odisha is taking the lead in political empowerment of women and has elected seven from the fairer sex to the Lok Sabha, the translation of Basanti, an Odia classic dealing with social…

Unwed motherhood is not uncommon in Odisha. The latest census report records that at least 11,000 women in the state have become mothers before the age of 15. But has society’s attitude…

Kalank is not a kalank  (blemish/disgrace) as you might have read in some reviews by now. Kalank is a beautiful take on the spontaneity of forbidden love, and the very helplessness of it…