Siddhanta Das

By The Grace Of God

A complex number has four parts (a) whole number, (b) fraction, (c) irrational number and (d) imaginary number. I wish…

December 1, 2022

My Way Or The Highway

In the early years of my career, I was fascinated by the way a very senior officer conducted meetings. At…

November 22, 2022

Expectations, Achievement & Satisfaction

At the Rio Olympics, 2016 PV Sindhu became the first ever Indian shuttler to reach the final and Sakshi Malik…

November 10, 2022

Broken Crayons Still Colour The Same

Bijay Kumar Panigrahi, an Indian Police Service officer of the 1952 batch, though three years senior to my father in…

November 1, 2022

Playing The Victim Card

When I was selected for the Indian Forest Service (IFS) in 1982, PC Ratho, a good friend and colleague of…

October 21, 2022

Our Probationers – Bond Beyond Professional Realms

I consider the most fulfilling period of my professional career, the three-year tenure as Director General of Forest in the…

October 11, 2022

Resistance: The First Step To Change

In 1986, an international agency provided two computers to Wildlife Wing of Odisha Forest Department -- one for Simlipal Tiger…

October 1, 2022

Hobson’s Choice

Nilu* and I studied in different schools and colleges, but we were good friends. He was typically a Mills and…

September 21, 2022

It Takes Two To Tango!

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

September 11, 2022

Micro Social Safety Net

My wife grew up in a joint family. Her father was the eldest among six brothers and two sisters. When…

September 1, 2022