One day my four-year-old daughter Ankita (Nikki) asked, “Papa, what is Nobel Prize?” While I was explaining to her in...

Ashish Mohapatra, an IFS officer of the 1988-batch of my cadre, was like a younger brother. He passed away on...

When I was posted as Member Secretary of the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Odisha, in April 2009, a colleague...

In 1987, Anup Kumar Patnaik, an IPS officer (now retired), recounted an anecdote about his brother, who as a child...

I got married a few months prior to joining as Divisional Forest Officer, Dhenkanal, in 1986. Sandeep Tripathi, an IFS...

Once in a while officers and staff of Odisha State Pollution Control Board played cricket on holidays. Although not a...

A dynamic Superintendent of Police (SP) of a district came up with a novel idea to curb eve-teasing. He let...

I joined as Executive Director of Odisha State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA), which was set up after the supercyclone, worst-ever...

Wikipedia describes Artificial intelligence (AI) as intelligence demonstrated by machines, as opposed to natural intelligence displayed by animals including humans....

In the 1980s it had become evident that bona fide requirements of communities in rural areas cannot be entirely met...