Guest Column

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...

I met Prof Dharanidhar Sahu (1948-2025), who passed away earlier this month on October 21, in 1989 when I returned from England to rejoin Berhampur University. He had joined as...

Once upon a time in Odisha, the word “Agyan” carried the weight of reverence, and “Babu” was not just a suffix—it was a sentiment. Today, in the age of linguistic...

“My idea of village Swaraj is that it is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants.” — Mahatma Gandhi In the quiet pulse of India’s...

In the corridors of South Asia’s constitutional courts and parliamentary chambers, a quiet revolution is stirring — one that questions the very threshold of adulthood. As India’s Supreme Court prepares...

In the realm of conflict resolution, is mediation truly essential for bridging divides between warring parties? What role should lawyers play in this process? These questions have sparked fresh debate,...