Guest Column

In 1987, Anup Kumar Patnaik, an IPS officer (now retired), recounted an anecdote about his brother, who as a child was bright but very sensitive. In school he was once...

  When I first moved to Bhubaneswar in 1996, this beautiful capital city had wide, tree-lined avenues and balmy weather. It had a lovely old-world charm and a laid-back atmosphere,...

Humanity is woefully embattled, both internally and externally, and constantly bickering over habitat and moorings. At Mangalajodi, birds from across continents have found their no man’s land, an annual global...

For the first time in Odisha, there were an almost equal number of women candidates contesting the recently concluded rural and urban elections in the state. Likewise, the elections also...

At a time when the deafening noise of the Russian bombing of Ukrainian cities has been relegated to ambient music status, two small incidents created some noise in the media....

Kashmiri cuisine can be traced back to the fifteenth-century, with the invasion of India by Timur, and also the migration of 1,700 skilled woodcarvers, weavers, architects, calligraphers and cooks from...

Globally, over 50% of the population lives in urban areas. By 2045, the world’s urban population will increase by 1.5 times to 6 billion. City leaders must move quickly to...

I got married a few months prior to joining as Divisional Forest Officer, Dhenkanal, in 1986. Sandeep Tripathi, an IFS officer of 1984 batch, was posted as a probationer there....

At a recent get-together, a young relative who works in one of the topmost corporate firms expressed his bewilderment at the continuing farmer’/agricultural labourers’ suicides in the Country. “I just...

Circa 1987. I had just submitted my MPhil dissertation and, as per the academic fulfilment, had to guide the students on a field trip to Leh and Ladakh. Our trip...