OB Special

The Olympic Games is the pinnacle of sports. Just earning the right to compete in the quadrennial extravaganza is the ultimate in numerous sportsperson’s career. And winning an Olympic gold…

During a national calamity, it is the responsibility of the central government to reach out to the last man standing at the margins. It has all the resources to do that. Indeed, during…

About 48 years ago, I was in Rourkela as the Additional District Magistrate (ADM) and Kanwal Jeet Singh Chatrath was the Sub-Divisional Officer (SDO), Panposh. My house was just behind his.…

It was the quarterly Parent-Teacher Meeting (PTM) of Class I students in one of the leading schools of Bhubaneswar. But the atmosphere was no less sombre and officious than that of a serious…

All around me, I see single women struggling to manage their finances. They are single by choice, divorced, separated or widowed. Whatever their status, they don’t know ‘F’ of finance.…

I was the Course Director (CD) for the 1993 and 1994 batches of officer trainees of Indian Forest Service (IFS) in the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy (IGNFA), Dehradun. As the CD I…

I have experienced Puri as a way of life. It is not only a place to live or visit. The sexual energy that pervades in Puri is intense, powerful and controlled because there is conscious…

Unlike men, we women can’t do it anywhere and everywhere. We need to squat, bend, sit, manage our clothes while attending  nature’s call. We have to consider our monthly periods. Take care…

The pandemic has levelled all differences and divides of class, caste wealth, haves, have nots, the marginalised, bigots, believers, rebels, peacemakers, doers and non-doers, naukars and…

The day Pratap Swain died it is said that many girls in Berhampur ‘broke their bangles.’ He was a ruthless criminal, but he could with his style of holding kangaroo courts easily dispense…