Guest Column

The road to power in Delhi, say political pundits, passes through Uttar Pradesh. Considering the state sends 80 members to Parliament, the observation is not out of place. It might...

For anyone who has spent a few years of their life thinking and living with cinema in motion, it becomes only natural that every conversation remotely connected with films, ultimately...

Expect the dynasty debate to get sharper and more bilious now. With the Priyanka decision, Congress president Rahul Gandhi has thrown an open challenge to the relentless critics of the...

Expect the ‘Modi vs Who?’ question to get more intense as the general election 2019 gets closer. Now that the opposition parties have overcome the initial hiccups to agree on...

The culture of Odisha starts from submission, or total abandonment of ego and domination. The conquerors of Odisha like the Mughals, the Marathas and the British East India Company, attempted...

This could well be Congress president Rahul Gandhi's political masterstroke. His decision to assign a full-fledged party role to sibling Priyanka has introduced the X factor into Indian politics and...

Odisha has always been devastated by natural disasters and every time the state has made a comeback, which has been glorious, gutsy and full of gusto. After strengthening the public...

Cuttack: Twenty years ago, one reached Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s birthplace from the Odia Bazaar side. Then it was just Janakinath Bhavan, named after Netaji’s father Janakinath Bose, who settled...

Assuming that the upcoming Lok Sabha polls would throw up a fractured verdict, which in all probability could be the case, Biju Janata Dal (BJD), YSR Congress and the Telangana...

In the times of hyperbole, half-truths and unabashed self-promotion, it is not out of place that the surgical strikes of the night of September 29, 2016 have been turned into...