Sujit Mahapatra

Before the 20th century, the plague caused by rats was the recurring pandemic (there had been other pandemics though like cholera and small pox). There had been three big plague pandemics,…

Historically, most pandemics happened when the viruses were shipped away across the globe. The plague, the deadliest recurring pandemic in history, primarily happened because of rats, which…

The day Satyanagar, where I stay, was sealed on April 8, I waited with bated breath at the stroke of 4.30PM to listen to Government Chief Spokesperson Subroto Bagchi speak about the…

I remember meeting General KPD Samanta for the first time, a few years back at a meeting of Rotary Heritage, Bhubaneswar in which I talked about BAKUL and our libraries. To the question of a…