Guest Column

Stone quarrying and crushing industries play a very significant role in the industrial and urban development programmes for the construction of roads, buildings, sheds and other similar activities. These industries...

Mythification is not without hazards for its subject. In an ideal world, the man and the myth should be perfectly matched. The latter is destructive when it far surpasses its...

Close to half-a-decade or thereabouts, India stuck a Faustian deal. Amid frenzied Delphic pronouncements of a happy future, it chose to erase a bit of its recent past. It chose...

Education along with air, water and space is a basic need for the full flowering of man’s inherent talent that has passed on from one generation to another. With the...

Modi vs who? The question fits neatly into the reductive universe of binaries we have settled into. It is also in sync with the strategic design of the ruling dispensation,...

In Odisha, the success of BCs/micro lenders is a bag of mixed stories. Replacing micro lenders has proved expensive and unviable. There is a huge mass of people without the...

In a welcome move, the Odisha government is set to ‘bank’ the 4,597 unbanked gram panchayats (GPs) of the state. This is a great step towards financial inclusion, which simply...

Eighteen years back I was lucky to see live the pioneer of Urdu and Hindi theatre, Habib Tanveer’s play 'Charandas Chor' by the great Habib Tanveer himself who had come to...

Baijayant Panda has written to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to release his copters so that they can be used for relief work and offered to give them free of cost....

Gautam Gambhir is one of the best-ever opening batsmen in the history of Indian cricket. Today, on his birthday let us recapitulate some of the high points of this unassuming...