Guest Column

Kamala Thapa, eldest amongst four sisters from Darjeeling, came to Delhi in search of a job. She ended up as household help, got married and settled down. After the death...

It was more than a decade ago and I was travelling in a bus from Bhubaneswar to Puri for a work assignment. A middle-aged lady sitting next to me began...

Spectators are being allowed almost to full capacity at the India versus New Zealand cricket matches being held at different centres. But the Kalinga Stadium hockey ground, which is hosting...

I met him for the first time when I joined the Home Department of the Odisha government in 1982. He was the Home Secretary. I had come on deputation from...

Recently I met a close friend, well-heeled Odia and with a perennially professed Odia love. I was quite shocked when the friend mentioned, in a refrain that “she had not...

A friend of mine whose son has qualified for one of the top engineering colleges in the country is inconsolable. Because the son doesn’t want to join the engineering college...

Bhubaneswar was the only Indian city to have found a place among the world’s top 20 Smart City List 2017. The Odisha capital had topped the list of Indian Smart...

I joined the erstwhile Ravenshaw College in 1958 and stayed in East Hostel. Room number 36, a large lecture hall, was close to the hostel. The loud and smart footsteps...

Two recent widespread public protest movements have rekindled memories of Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha. One was the anti-CAA movement of 2019-20 and the other is the farmers’ movement of 2020-21. Both...

After completion of my professional training at the National Forest Academy, I joined for district training at Cuttack in 1984. Harmohan Patnaik, an IAS officer of the 1974 batch, was...