Moma Mishra

Why Chilika's Irrawaddy dolphin population matters On the surface, the Irrawaddy dolphin appears to be an anomaly of a species with its rounded head and blunt snout, giving it its…

If we look at different culinary traditions all over the world, one will notice the areas where they are highly segregated in terms of gender, class, or title. Who is behind the stove is not…

Bhubaneswar: Seated with her hair parted into two streaks of salt and pepper and her characteristic calming gaze, Indira Gandhi poises herself for what would turn out to be her last…

Bhubaneswar: In 2003, a teenager from Hyderabad became the first Indian woman to win the Wimbledon Girls’ Doubles title. Two years later, she reached the third round in Women’s Singles at…

I grew up in Odisha. So, it goes without saying that Odia is one of the languages I acquired as soon as I started to speak full sentences. But by the time I was in school, my relationship…

I was nicknamed bilayee (Odia for cat) when I was little. Going two days without meat was almost agonising. I disliked most vegetarian dishes with a passion unless they were served with a…

Bhubaneswar: Usha Uthup, the singing sensation who turned 75 on Wednesday (November 8), is as much a trailblazer as an all-round charismatic human being. At a time when female singers with a…

Oscar Wilde once said, “If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be,…

I never cooked a meal to feed others in all my twenty-five years in India. When I did cook something, it was always a dispassionate attempt at whipping out a snack I could have on the go. It…