Guest Column

The coronavirus outbreak has resulted in certain words and phrases becoming popular worldwide. So much as that breaking the chain or flattening the curve has now kind of become part...

A piece of Odisha's history lies in forgotten ignominy in the remote village of Ngota in the province of Yogyakarta in Central Indonesia. Few know about it, none from Odisha...

Biju Patnaik’s second term as Chief Minister came nearly 30 years after his first short-lived spell. He was disappointed to find that the bureaucrats, administrators and elected representatives were very...

What turns an ordinary Joe or Jane into a superhero? Circumstance. And that critical decision to stand up and be counted. Grit and gumption get aligned in due course. Add...

COVID-19 is a global pandemic. People with disabilities (PwDs) are at risk from COVID-19. And many are less likely to access health services, and more likely to experience greater health...

Humans desire above all to build a dream house and settle inside creating good memories; that is why they work hard and invest heavily. However, during the lockdown, man has...

‘No Strings Attached’ by Bhaskar Parichha is a compendium of Odisha’s politics, political players and social leaders from varied fields and of trends in the state’s narratives, primarily touching the...

“The unexamined life is not worth living,” uttered Socrates at his trial, for impiety and corrupting the youth, for which he was subsequently sentenced to death and drank the hemlock,...

I remember meeting General KPD Samanta for the first time, a few years back at a meeting of Rotary Heritage, Bhubaneswar in which I talked about BAKUL and our libraries....

  The dawn breaks languid and serene to the symphony of chirping birds. Soft, early rays of the sun lend colour and shape to silhouettes before painting the sky in...