Siddhanta Das

A complex number has four parts (a) whole number, (b) fraction, (c) irrational number and (d) imaginary number. I wish to draw an analogy between a complex number and an individual…

In the early years of my career, I was fascinated by the way a very senior officer conducted meetings. At the very beginning, he announced what decisions he wished to be taken on the items…

At the Rio Olympics, 2016 PV Sindhu became the first ever Indian shuttler to reach the final and Sakshi Malik became the first female wrestler from our country to win an Olympic medal.…

Bijay Kumar Panigrahi, an Indian Police Service officer of the 1952 batch, though three years senior to my father in service, was a close family friend. He had made a name as an upright,…

When I was selected for the Indian Forest Service (IFS) in 1982, PC Ratho, a good friend and colleague of my father in the Indian Police Service (IPS), while congratulating me, jokingly…

I consider the most fulfilling period of my professional career, the three-year tenure as Director General of Forest in the Government of India. But, personally, my five-year stint as a…

In 1986, an international agency provided two computers to Wildlife Wing of Odisha Forest Department -- one for Simlipal Tiger Reserve and the other for Nandankanan Zoological Park.…

Nilu* and I studied in different schools and colleges, but we were good friends. He was typically a Mills and Boon tall, dark, and handsome boy. Girls craved his company, but he was…

I attended a one-week capacity-building training programme sponsored by the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) at Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, in…

My wife grew up in a joint family. Her father was the eldest among six brothers and two sisters. When I married four brothers and a family friend Surendra Nath Mishra stayed under one roof…