Guest Column

Puri: For over a decade, a committed circle of poets from across India and the world has converged annually on the tranquil banks of Odisha's Chandrabhaga river, in the shadow...

Renowned physicist Fritjof Capra, author of 'The Tao of Physics', described witnessing Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra's performance alongside disciple Sanjukta Panigrahi in Mumbai in 1980 as a transcendent experience: “To see...

Prof. Rabi Shankar Mishra (1948-2025) was connected with me in more ways than one. Though primarily my teacher in the MA English class at Sambalpur University (1977-1979), he was my...

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...