Guest Column

Ghazals do not belong to the realm of traditional Odia music or literature. It’s more noteworthy that unlike in some other regions such as Bengal and Maharashtra, the introduction of...

India is now struggling to control the COVID-19 pandemic, but another health disaster will be a growing headache for our country. Due to the pandemic and subsequent lockdown, many children...

On October 1, the world celebrated International Coffee Day. According to surveys, coffee is the second-most consumed beverage after water. The International Coffee Organisation (ICO) launched ‘Coffee’s Next Generation’ --...

I was sorting out my waste diligently when I encountered some Thermocol sheets. Unsure of where it was meant to go, landfill or recycling bin, I requested someone to google...

  What is it that the Narendra Modi government has done to sour India’s relationships with Bangladesh that China has not? In September, the Economist did an analytical deep dive...

'Bhakt' is a maligned word in our world. In the current definition, the word refers to a person prone to expressing excessive devotion to the subject of adoration. The devotion...

No matter what town or village you go to in India, however, remote it may be; there’s bound to be a post office nearby. Every old post office has some...

When India shut down in March in a desperate bid to “flatten the curve” of coronavirus cases, the skies over its polluted cities quickly turned an azure blue, and the...

The year 2020 is the darkest period of human society with the appearance of the monstrous tiny coronavirus. The virus unknown to the world before, appeared in a filthy environment...

Even after completing high school, neither did he realise that he has got talent in art nor did he know that art is taught as a subject in colleges. The...