Sujit Mahapatra

The 75th Independence Day yesterday was a momentous occasion, but the momentum was slightly missing for such an occasion because of the COVID pandemic. On this occasion, I would like to…

August 12 is celebrated every year as the National Librarians Day to commemorate the birthday of S R Ranganathan, considered the father of library science in India. This former Professor of…

Today is an important day for us because it is an important day for democracy. It is the foundation day of the oldest democracy, a day we better know as the American Independence Day (July…

The Odisha Society of Americas (OSA) organized a webinar on “Empowering Odisha through State-of-the-art Public Library System” as part of the 52nd OSA Annual Convention on July 2. OSA has…

COVID-19 got me into Netflix. For a long long time, I was away from web-series: I saw it as a vicious web. I risked feeling completely out of place (almost a living anachronism) in most…

Well, I had decided to hang up my boots after writing 10 articles in a series on pandemics in history. What had got me fascinated was the sense of déjà vu I got while reading up on pandemics…

I remember as a young child, when I was once asked if I wanted to join the civil services when I grew up, I had responded with an arrogance I had obviously picked up from others, “No, I…

When I was asked to self quarantine myself at home, I was interested to explore why a 14th century maritime practice of “quarantine” was being used in 2020. Also, after watching Contagion, I…

We are all worried today about how this pandemic will end, and we will be able to live without fear. Most of us hope that we soon have a vaccine that will help stop the devastation just as…

There is a lot of speculation currently about how COVID-19 is going to change our lives and the course of history. But then almost every pandemic has influenced the course of history. Wars…