Guest Column

Odisha always deserved a spiffy crafts museum and Kala Bhoomi is the one. Spacious and breezy, the infrastructure is smartly designed to showcase the typical Odia social ethos with an...

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat again sparked a controversy when he argued for a harmonious debate between supporters and opposers of reservation. Reservation has become so sacrosanct in Indian politics, that any reference...

India has modest reserves of iron ore, bauxite and coal, but very little deposits of other non-ferrous metals. Considering the increasing need in the country for iron, aluminium and other...

We all know that Raag Pahadi was Khayyam’s favourite and the composer clearly played favourites. His compositions were like brooks flowing through mountain terrains and spangled contented. No wonder Raag...

Kashmir is an intractably complex problem. There is no easy solution to it. A lot of impatient voices are being heard today from various quarters as if the Central government...

‘So, what are you doing on August 15?’ This question is doing the round in offices, communities, localities and societies. As luck would have it, the big day has fallen...

Bhubaneswar: Tomorrow is August 15. No, we are not talking about big ticket online sales, decorated malls and family outings on a public holiday. It’s about our Independence Day, the...

It was Wing Commander Karori Lal Bhatia, not Biju Patnaik who made the first Srinagar landing. In the aftermath of the Jammu and Kashmir action by the Centre, the internet...

We need not build a new Odisha every time. A target based approach with timelines is the simplest and the best way to achieve all round development. A transformed Odisha...

I can’t imagine Odisha being a breakthrough state and a $1 trillion economy without harnessing the rich west Odisha. The western part of Odisha has deep-seated cultural identity, rootedness coupled...