Siddhanta Das

In Hindi film, ‘Gangajal’ Ajay Devgan as a young IPS officer after taking over as Superintendent of Police (SP) of a district in Bihar, is shocked to learn that police stations didn’t have…

During our training in the Indian Forest College (IFC), Dehradun, we were on East India Tour in January-February of 1983. While camping at Varanasi, we got a message from IFC that the tour…

Ravenshaw Collegiate School, Cuttack, established in 1851, is the oldest school in Odisha and its alumni include luminaries such as Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Biju Patnaik. While local…

My parents came from diverse socio-economic backgrounds. While my father was from a middle-class family having strong roots in village, my mother came from a higher economic echelon and had…

Raja Reddy, an IFS officer of 1984 batch from Andhra Pradesh, was posted for on-the-job training (OJT) in Khordha division. He got down from train and proceeded straight to the Divisional…

In the Hindi film, “Munna Bhai, MBBS”, Dr Asthana, Dean of a medical college, asserted, “Relationship between doctor and patient should be purely professional and dispassionate.” When I…

Toastmasters International is a not-for-profit educational organisation that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of clubs. My daughter Ankita, in…

The Super Cyclone that hit Odisha on October 29, 1999, inflicted extreme human misery. Nearly 10,000 people lost their lives. The wind and storm surges caused extensive damage to houses,…

I was born in Cuttack and grew up in this small but historic town, which socio-culturally was like a village in those days. People were nice, helpful and lived a contented life. They…

Vicky Hilton was our course coordinator for a three-month 'Training of Trainers' course, I attended at Edinburgh University in 1996. She was highly impressed by the academic profile of the…