In August 1986, I joined as Divisional Forest Officer (DFO), Dhenkanal forest division, supposedly a tough division.  In the very...

After the Super Cyclone devastated coastal Odisha in October 1999, the State Government constituted the Odisha State Disaster Management Authority...

Devdas Chhotray, a 1971 batch IAS officer from Bihar cadre, is better known and acclaimed in Odisha as a poet,...

I joined as Principal, Forest Rangers’ College (FRC), Angul, in September 1989 and continued for three years. One of my...

On transfer of my father from Keonjhar, I joined Ravenshaw Collegiate School, Cuttack, in Class-VI in the middle of an...

Dr Ajit Pattnaik, my batch and cadre-mate in the Indian Forest Service (IFS), is a mild mannered, sincere and ingenious...

Kamala Thapa, eldest amongst four sisters from Darjeeling, came to Delhi in search of a job. She ended up as...

After completion of my professional training at the National Forest Academy, I joined for district training at Cuttack in 1984....

The residential campus for faculty members of Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy (IGNFA) is in the picturesque 'Litchi Bagh' in...

This article is part of the author's column 'By Grace of God'