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World Urbanism Day: Bhubaneswar Needs Savvy City Planner
Our City needs Innovation Savvy Urban Planner, a Voice on World Town Planning Day
World Town Planning Day (WTPD) celebrates the accomplishments of planners and their contributions to…
The Rasagola Battle: Let’s Stop The Charade Please, We Lost It Long Back
Let's be under no illusion. We are never going to win the Rasagola war. GI certification be damned. Evidence from many centuries back be damned too. The ownership of Rasagola slipped out of…
Reasonable Old-Age Pension Can Lead To Economic Upliftment
I was not in favour of an enhanced salary and pension proposal for legislators and ministers at a time when the state's economy was passing through severe crisis. Out of 365 days in a…
Odisha’s Mo Sarkar Can Be A Global Model
‘Integrity and working together as one united service’ has turned around Singapore to a dynamo, though pocket-sized. Rwanda is manifesting to be a global leader in change management.…
The Time Is Ripe To Imbibe Gandhiji’s Invincible Spirit
"Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one, ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth,” said Albert Einstein about Mahatma Gandhi.
Steering a…
Young Odisha Can Realise Trillion Dollar Dream
Mahatama Gandhi’s idea of ‘Nai Taleem’ is perhaps his best gift to the world.
‘Nai Taleem’ was conceived as new education idea, in which practical skills serve as the centre and…
Odisha Was Gandhi’s Khadi Hub
The Father of the Nation visited Odisha during the crucial years between 1921 and 1946, when the critical issues like the formation of the state of Odisha and the then prevailing economic…
Budget 2019-20 And Thereafter
The annual financial statement, popularity known as Budget for the year 2019-20 seems to have lost its constitutional authority and financial sanctity with historical interventions and…
‘Khati’, The Odisha Commune
Do you think that Raj Mahal Khati in Bhubaneswar can have a GI tag? Why not if we build a case, because there is a case.
I have seen a lot of Khati in places I had not expected - Greece,…
‘The Situation In Kashmir Should Not Be Allowed To Simmer’
While the whole country hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s bold move on Jammu and Kashmir by abrogating Articles 370 and 35 A, as promised by his party as soon as India gave him a…