Guest Column

Kitchens of the West has the cook standing at a table or counter and using a knife. But mention a kitchen in eastern India, an image will surface of a...

All the young and middle-aged married men I know whose wives died untimely, have remarried. On the other hand, all women in the same age group who had lost their...

A prominent Indian physicist, a brilliant teacher, a renowned educationist, the first director of Institute of Physics (IOP) (1974-89), Bhubaneswar, vice chancellor of Utkal University (1989-91), a leading public intellectual...

Chef Pabitra is one of the few chefs in India and perhaps the only one from Odisha who has worked in a Michelin Star Restaurant – The Golden Peacock at...

Dr Ajit Pattnaik, my batch and cadre-mate in the Indian Forest Service (IFS), is a mild mannered, sincere and ingenious person. During our training at the National Forest Academy (NFA)...

Aristotle firmly believed that human beings are by nature political animals. I don’t want to get to the 'why' part now. Whether we accept it or not, we are bound...

How I wish there was a special word for female friendships! To encompass the huge gamut of emotion, experience, support, strength and sharing that connotes female friendships. Somehow, all the...

Ma told me about Chitranani’s passing the other day and I haven't been able to stop thinking about her.  Chitranani was our house help for a few years starting in...

Ashok Mohapatra was a post-graduate student of History in Utkal University campus at Vani Vihar, Bhubaneswar, while I was an Assistant Professor of Political Science in 1965. He was sharp,...

Why does Dostoevsky matter? More than a century and a half after his death? The bi-centenary of the novelist’s birth, observed the world over on November 11, is the right...