Guest Column

It’s the year 2023. But the mindset about parents and families saving for the son’s education and the daughter’s wedding has not shifted. Budged a bit perhaps, but certainly not...

Walking under my umbrella this morning, the sight of children scurrying on their bicycles wearing raincoats, parents in a tearing hurry ushering their children into their vehicles to drop them...

The pitter-patter of a shyly receding monsoon greeted me as I stepped out of the airport. I was in the land of God's Own Country. It is a coincidence that...

I challenge you. Can you drive on Delhi’s roads for a week without losing your cool? If the answer’s yes, know that you are rare. I struggle. I have anger...

For some decades now, the municipal bodies and Odisha Government have been observing August 31 as the All India Local Self Government Day as if to symbolise the birth of...

A few weeks to go for the ODI World Cup, Team India looks far from a settled, let alone formidable, unit. The experiments with different players and combinations in recent...

As I was browsing through the news today, I got to know that one of my favourite personalities from Odisha,  Jayanta Mahapatra, is no more. He was admitted to SCB...

For any connoisseur of food – kebab will always remind them of the famous lines written by poet Ghulam Hamadan Mushafi ‘Sar e atish jo ashk rezaan thaa, kisi aashiq...

Have you quit your job when pushed to do something alien to your nature? Ten months into my first job, I faced this when my boss asked me to make...

After a couple of years in the doldrums, the beleaguered Hindi film industry appears to have rediscovered its mojo. A series of commercially successful movies this year has dispelled the...