Guest Column

What comes to mind when you think of the city of the future? Back in the 1970s, people believed that in another 50 years, the streets would be full of...

Today, when Odisha is observing Disaster Preparedness Day by remembering that fateful night of the 1999 Super Cyclone, it’s important to take stock of where the state stands in dealing...

Urban sustainability initiatives regularly make headlines. Cities, for example, have received much attention for new bicycle lanes and a generalised speed limit of 20 km/h for motorised traffic. Havana, Cuba,...

There are few things as beautiful as a Porsche. I saw one today, a magnificent machine in shining red, parked at the entrance of a top-tier private hospital in Bhubaneswar....

This is the month when the world observes Urban October by debating on various urban issues as well as celebrating good works of city. October is also the month when...

A rigged election teaches a lesson no textbook can undo: that power matters more than principle, and winning matters more than being right. A child entering a classroom carries more...

Climate change and disasters pose a serious risk to sustainable urban development, resulting in escalating human and economic costs across the world. Consequently, city authorities and other urban actors face...

When Anthropic, the American AI safety and research firm invited Swami Sarvapriyananda to its San Francisco headquarters to contemplate consciousness and ethics for its CLAUDE AI assistant, the technology vanguard...

Fourteen men were waiting outside our home when Akshaya, my husband, and I returned home for lunch. We had barely begun to step out of our newly-purchased Maruti van when...

Bhubaneswar: The mental health of urban populations is shaped not merely by biology or circumstance, but by the rhythms, structures and spatial logic of the cities people inhabit. The world...