Guest Column

Having lost the Mangu Mutt case, conservationists, historians and activists are now pinning their hopes on an intervention petition in the Supreme Court where a case against the demolition of...

Not many realise that Goa gives India the intangible value of individual and social freedom, which keeps societies and communities bonded despite their own peculiarities. I would not be exaggerating...

We cannot wish away the feelings, emotions and helplessness of the people, particularly the parents of the victims, in this country in the garb of arguments that “The law should...

  At the primal level, the encounter killing of the four alleged culprits in the rape and murder of a young veterinarian in Andhra Pradesh is deeply gratifying. The outpouring...

Another girl raped in India. She could have been your daughter, or mine. Dr Priyanka Reddy was someone’s daughter. I can’t even begin to empathise with the anguish, the inextinguishable...

Some may feel my title to be more than a bit of an overstatement, especially coming from a non-Indian. Yet I will stand by it. Let me try and convince...

I visited the Government Primary School of Hatabaradiha in Chilika Block (Khurdha district) of Odisha last month. It is nearly 80 km away from Bhubaneswar. I was in the school from...

Chanakya, wherever he is, would be raging at his name being dragged into acts of all kinds of political unscrupulousness, even the harebrained ones. He would be particularly upset at...

Children born before the 90s in Bhubaneswar are fortunate because they not only got to play in children's parks but also rode bicycles without any fear. Others are not so...

The opening day of the Odia Theatre Festival in the national capital was quite a trendsetter. The play started in time, even after the traditional lamp lighting and on stage...