OB Special

What can sports mean to a ‘backward’ region? A pastime avocation, a great leveller, a unifier or a passport to success? To my home state Odisha, it possibly means all...

A few days back when Ratan Tata said, “You don't know what it is to be lonely, until you spend time alone wishing for companionship”; to many of us that was...

The stubborn refusal of the Congress top leadership to revive the party is confounding indeed. Eight years after its biggest electoral debacle and three years after repeat performance, it is...

On a day that was supposed to infuse us with pride, achievement and joy as Indian citizens there were other appalling, shocking and unbelievable scenes unfolding in the Country -...

They said it was a historic day and indeed it was. For the first time, the Odisha state cabinet sat out of the capital city of Bhubaneswar, in the temple...

The pandemic battered the theatre business, now the boycott trend is out to deliver it the knockout punch. Single theatres in several small towns have shut shop or are on...

Left has been the most prominent four-letter word in the political discourse of our times. In India, it is reviled and ridiculed in equal measure. Across the world, the ascendant...

In Hindi film, ‘Gangajal’ Ajay Devgan as a young IPS officer after taking over as Superintendent of Police (SP) of a district in Bihar, is shocked to learn that police...

Ever written something you enjoyed that was never published? Many years ago, my friend Subrata Ghosh and I collaborated on an article for our school magazine. We imagined an idea...

Can you lose your job for wearing a bikini and posting your photos on social media? Does your employment contract have a clause saying that you will not wear swimwear...