Guest Column

By Narendra Modi Somnath… hearing this word instils a sense of pride in our hearts and minds. It is the eternal proclamation of India’s soul. This majestic temple is situated...

Urvat il wuska Jammu: Asif Hussain, a member of the Rohingya refugee community living in the Sujwan settlement on the outskirts of Jammu, still remembers the long walk through the...

Odisha, once India’s best-kept secret, is fast becoming one of its most littered states. We are blessed with breathtaking landscapes—rivers, mangroves, lush green fields, pristine beaches, dense forests, majestic mountains,...

‘Odisha’, the best kept secret of India, is becoming one of the most littered states of India! We have a beautiful land with beautiful landscapes, rivers, mangroves, green fields, beaches,...

Yesterday evening, a simple conversation about the Indian Constitution turned into a long debate at home. I was helping my Class 7 son with his civics lesson. The topic was...

Mahatma Gandhi considered sanitation and the condition of toilets to be a crucial part of personal and public hygiene, social reform and even a key step toward achieving independence. He...

There are two possibilities as an urban planner when you look at your home towns. One is to be an average planner by believing what your city’s policy makers are...

Odisha, in 2025, stands at a historic confluence. Its cultural wellspring — Bali Jatra, Kartika Purnima, Boita Bandana — remains alive, not as romantic nostalgia but as the DNA of...

On Kartika Purnima, when the full moon spills itself over the Mahanadi and its sister rivers, Odisha becomes a single long, luminous sigh. The night is at once festival and...

In Odisha, urban areas are expanding rapidly, or rural areas are merging fast into nearest urban areas by forming conurbation, as the state expects its demographic sheet to overshoot rural...