Priya Ranjan Sahu

Decades back, whenever enthusiastic theatre lovers put up a play in any district of Odisha’s western parts, it usually used to be in Odia though Sambalpuri was the language spoken in those…

The Biju Janata Dal (BJD)  has registered a resounding win against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJD) in Padampur where a bypoll was necessitated following the death of sitting MLA Bijaya…

Long after the reopening of cinema halls post-COVID pandemic, I watched five films recently in Keshari Cinema, arguably the best single-screen movie hall in Bhubaneswar. Tickets in Keshari…

August 1 is being celebrated as ‘Sambalpuri Din’ (Sambalpuri Day) for the past few years across several districts of western Odisha. The day marks the birthday of renowned poet, writer and…

A young married woman assaults a young single woman inside a vehicle. The single woman cries for help as her hair is pulled. She somehow wriggles out of the vehicle and runs towards a…

I get a knock on my door. It’s the cooking gas cylinder delivery boy. I receive the cylinder and pay him Rs 1,079. I feel the pinch as it is more than 160 per cent increase from Rs 410…

The Biju Janata Dal has registered a landslide victory in the by-election for Brajarajnagar Assembly constituency. BJD candidate Alaka Mohanty, a greenhorn, has defeated two seasoned…

Every year, lakhs of youth appear for the Civil Services Examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission for recruitment to one of the most coveted services of the Government of…

Uttam Nayak, a person with disabilities (PwDs), is from a village under Dhamnagar block in Odisha's Bhadrak district. He has been living in Bhubaneswar for the last several years. Uttam,…

Hirakud Dam, one of India’s 'modern temples', came up across the Mahanadi river in undivided Sambalpur district in the 1950s. The dam ushered in a boom in agriculture, especially paddy…