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Democratic processes and the institutions that make liberal democracy sustainable have alienated people they are supposed to serve. They face, as this series of articles has pointed out, a crisis...

Here's an account of my chance encounter with ChatGPT, an Artificial Intelligence-based language processing tool, on the internet and engagement with it for around 10 minutes. My input: Write an...

I have always been intrigued by how encompassing the sense of ‘home’ is, and what it really means to people. I am always introspecting what it means to me, and...

Democracy is a dynamic process, forever evolving with responses to new challenges. The responses include experiments with ideas, ideologies and political positioning and formations. INDIA, the coalition of 26 opposition...

A woman who is ambitious and striving is a Bitch A woman who is attractive is Hot A woman who is stylish is Sexy A woman who protests is Hysterical...

Bhubaneswar: In 2013, just prior to Rath Yatra, Sankaracharya of Gobardhan Peeth Swami Nischalananda Saraswati had written to the Centre, requesting it to intervene and press officials in Nepal to...

While having dinner at a family wedding recently, I was inadvertently privy to a conversation between my aunt-in-law and a niece, in the table next to me. The aunt-in-law was...

A Christian by birth but Hindu at heart, it was Hungarian lass Katalin’s love for Odissi dance that made her the daughter-in-law of an Odia family from Bhubaneswar, finally, 13...

For all of us who have crossed our mid-lives or hovering close to it, the annual school summer vacation used to be one the most anticipated and coveted pleasures. I...

The bus left Cuttack’s Badambadi around 9 at night and got to Sambalpur in the small hours of the morning. Dawn was yet to break. The sky over Sambalpur was...