Guest Column

I first met Sriballav Panigrahi in 1960 at the erstwhile Gangadhar Meher (GM) College, Sambalpur. In the following year, he was elected as the president of the student council of...

Ever been there? The odds are overwhelmingly against you. Your competitor enjoys a head start that seems impossible to catch up to. So, how do you play when the deck...

While having dinner at a family wedding recently, I was inadvertently privy to a conversation between my aunt-in-law and a niece, in the table next to me. The aunt-in-law was...

The accident is now one month old. The suspicion of sabotage is still being investigated by the CBI. The Railway Safety Board too has not submitted its report. According to...

The relationship between art and sports is not very close. While art is subtle and spiritual, sports are gross and largely concerned with physical energy. However, not all sports are...

A Christian by birth but Hindu at heart, it was Hungarian lass Katalin’s love for Odissi dance that made her the daughter-in-law of an Odia family from Bhubaneswar, finally, 13...

Convinced your life sucks? Stuck in a seemingly endless pit of despair? There’s no light at the end of the tunnel for you. Or so you think. You feel it’s...

The health ministry of India has proposed to take place nicotine replacement therapies (NRT) under Schedule K so that in future they would be available only on the prescription of...

Sweta Mukti is an intense search, a gripping journey into the compassionate world of womanhood. This is a long story of five women, divided into five short episodes and all...

By the beginning of June after enduring the harshness of the hot and humid Indian summer season from March, the nation starts looking skyward for the rain clouds to appear....