Guest Column

As the humanity is set to observe this year’s World Environment Day, we stand at the crossroads - what the UN General Assembly calls the ‘Decade of action and delivery...

When was the last time you pedalled a bicycle to work, for leisure or physical exercise? This is not a question that one expects in university exam papers, but this...

“What keeps you going?” A former colleague asked me this when she learned I completed 18 years in my current workplace. “A few things, but mostly, it’s the team,” I...

It is a dirty culture, seen mostly in India, where VIPs visit the places of disasters. These visits cause more inconvenience than help, people who could be utilized for rescue operation...

The transformation of a bioscope into a motion picture is quite a recent phenomenon. Historically, the motion picture by Lumiere Brothers was first released in Paris on December 28, 1895....

Brinjal, aka Auberjine aka Eggplant is one of those veggies that many cooks find daunting. It feels like there are a lot of rules (and a lot of steps) involved...

“Sir, my mother is no more.” I woke up to find this text on my phone sent by a team member at the start of this week. My colleague’s mother...

Every time Odia parents staying outside Odisha sheepishly (and sometimes proudly!) admit or declare that their children don’t know how to speak in their mother tongue - my eyebrows are...

Bhubaneswar: Rabi Narayan Pattanayak was one among the well-known engineers of Odisha. He was born on August 4, 1934, at a small village near Jajpur. He got his primary education...

Balakrushna Dash’s arrival in Odia music was iconic. As a young singer and composer, he started his career in Odia films with a golden mike. Whatever he composed or sang,...