Guest Column

Odia films have a bright future because it can only rise after touching the nadir. That’s the silver lining for an industry which has for years not seen many original...

Sidney Poitier’s death at the over ripe age of 94 reopens the long-standing saga of struggle of Black life in the White world in general and in America in particular....

Devdas Chhotray, a 1971 batch IAS officer from Bihar cadre, is better known and acclaimed in Odisha as a poet, lyricist and writer. When he was not even 14 years...

Odisha had the first SDG budget in 2021-22 with an outlay of Rs 1,34,225 crore. SDG (Sustainable Development Goal) budget mainstreams the SDGs into state policy formulation, strategic and annual...

I think I will never be able to get over the shock that I received when instead of seeing a shiny new iPhone, my eyes fell on a rather battered...

A single female colleague of mine in her early 30s, who had recently shifted to Bhubaneswar, was frantically looking for a house. She soon started panicking when she was unable...

I joined as Principal, Forest Rangers’ College (FRC), Angul, in September 1989 and continued for three years. One of my predecessors, Subash Chandra Mishra, gave me some friendly advice: “Be...

The roundabout where the Satyanagar flyover ends has the national emblem of India, the adaptation of the Lion Capital of Ashoka, a statue from 280 BCE. A stone carved emblem...

Art and culture is the permanent treasure. Its fast depletion is making us poorer every year. In 2022, culture-based explanations for economic development will have to make a comeback in...

Happy New Year!!! What emoji does one insert now? One cannot escape the emoji. It's a trend that has caught on - mere words now appear so dry, inexpressive; a...