Guest Column

Satya Mohanty is a former administrator-turned-writer. Originally hailing from Odisha, he has made Delhi his home. He is a prominent member of the Odia literary diaspora in the national capital...

There was a time when people used to walk or pedal a few kilometres for their daily needs, converted small patches of land into kitchen gardens and took pride in...

The world gears up for World Cities Day, along with searching for green tools to deal with climate crisis, with the belief that climate change is a global problem that...

I vividly remember an incident that occurred in Bhubaneswar a few years ago. My close friend along with her friend who was visiting from outside Odisha were travelling in a...

Like previous evenings, that evening too Subrat and his cousin repeated the ritual of one last chat under the electricity pole that stood a few feet into the mouth of...

His composure can be a nerve-wracking experience for fans and his emotionless face intimidating to rivals. He frustrates as much as he exhilarates. He can drive you mad at times....

Captain John Jacob, the founder president of the INA Committee to the Government of India, was a member of INA’s Suicide Squad. He was also enrolled into the INA’s Officer’s...

Coffee is the most widely loved and celebrated culinary ingredient. Primarily coffee beans are used by grinding them to powder and consumed by brewing with hot water, milk, flavouring agents...

My father Rajendra Narayan Das joined India Police Service (IPS) in 1955. That year he was the only person from Odisha to make it to any All India or Central...

Dalma, undeniably Odisha’s first cuisine branded food enterprise, is trailblazing. Megadiverse but grossly understated, Odisha’s cuisine suffered perennial anonymity. Dalma chain promoted by Deboo Patnaik, took up the cudgel and...