Guest Column

During my college days and early years of my entrepreneurial journey, whenever I met people who were articulate, intelligent and confident, I was often awed by their personality. I assumed...

The family was waiting for good news. My niece had been admitted to a private hospital in Bhubaneswar for the delivery of her first child, and there was the usual...

Municipal councils work hard to respond promptly to their residents’ needs. But despite their best intentions, rules and requirements often slow down processes and restrict the pace of their response....

Faster urbanisation has led to increased distances between food production centres and urban settlements, resulting in longer supply chains and a decrease in freshness and nutritional value of food. We...

There was a time when I believed that some people were simply born with wings. They seemed more confident, more courageous, more capable of taking risks. They appeared to know...

Yesterday, I took a friend, Pradyumna, to donate blood for a relative of mine. At the blood collection centre, he was asked whether he had donated blood in the previous...

My sixtieth birthday was celebrated by our Chairman, Jagadish Prasad Naik, and my colleagues in a way I had never imagined. Jagadish had personally planned the celebration and meticulously monitored...

In 1893, an Indian monk travelled to Chicago to speak about a civilisation and its faith to a world that knew little about either. At the Parliament of the World's...

My son could not go to his tuition today. It is not a particularly dramatic event. No examination was missed, no emergency was involved and, presumably, he will make up...

I write not as a detached commentator but as an alumnus of the National Law School, one of many who owe to that institution whatever we understand of the law,...