Guest Column

The Odisha government's decision to revise the English spellings of several place names has reopened an old but important debate: How should Indian languages be represented in the Roman script?...

Every quarter, governments celebrate rising GDP. Stock markets respond, investors applaud, and politicians claim success. Yet a simple question remains largely unanswered: Are people actually living better lives? Nearly a century...

In my school days, my parents, teachers, and society taught me to always walk on the left side of the road. Back then, I was barely aware of the term...

When the voice of nature resonates through the farmlands, the beauty of greenery enriches both the landscape and the environment. Across India, the call to return to nature-based agriculture is...

In line with the much-publicised NEP 2020, Odisha’s schoolchildren are getting a world-class education in one subject the syllabus forgot to list: Creative Fact-Checking. With thousands of mistakes across textbooks,...

It is 4 am somewhere in rural Bihar. A 17-year-old girl — the first in her family to sit for NEET — has not slept. She has memorised cellular respiration...

There is a wheel in Odisha that has been waiting 700 years for the right person to look at it carefully. Not as a relic. Not as a monument. As...

To navigate an Indian street is to witness a profound, multi-layered behavioural crisis. On any given afternoon in Bhubaneswar, wrong-side driving, red-light jumping, and open hostility among commuters are regular...

Fifty-one years ago, on June 25, 1975, a formal Presidential proclamation plunged India into an overnight dictatorship. Opposition leaders were jailed, the judiciary was bypassed, and press censorship was explicitly...

The state government’s aggressive rush to erect 707 new 4G mobile towers across 24 tribal districts in Odisha is wrapped in the moral cloth of digital inclusion. Touted as a...