Guest Column

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose had declared the formation of Provisional Government of Free India (Azad Hind) at Singapore on this day (October 21), 78 years ago (1943). The Provisional Government...

The first flag of Independent India was hoisted by Colonel Shaukat Malik of the Indian National Army at Moirang near Imphal on April 14, 1944. The flag has been in...

When we think of financially needy and desperate people, images of the poor and hungry, desperate for food, come to mind rather than of well educated and well-dressed individuals. Yet...

Thousands of women in India become pregnant every day. Many of them multiple times over their course of life. Several of them suffer from pregnancy and child birth-related complications. More...

Vivid memories of my brother, cousins and me lying near our dad on a hot mid-summer evening, listening to one of his many stories come alive like it was yesterday....

"Blame it on the pale blue aerogramme," Subrat said as he readied to board the Aeroflot flight to London at Calcutta. He was not alone. With him were his wife...

The needless brouhaha about Rajnath Singh’s statement on Mahatma Gandhi’s advice to Vinayak Damodar Savarkar for his mercy petition has finally settled. In the annals of the Indian freedom struggle, Savarkar...

A martini: Shaken, not stirred. It’s a line from Ian Fleming’s book, which became iconic after being included in the first James Bond movie ‘Dr No’. I am yet to...

World Food Day is celebrated on October 16 to commemorate the day of the founding of the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), an initiative of the United Nation. Slowly this...

A good number in India is aware of the Third Floor (TF) in Odisha. Specifically in business and policy circles. Never before in public governance has a floor of a...