OB Special

I attended a one-week capacity-building training programme sponsored by the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) at Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, in 1993. During the course, I...

The end of secularism, at least the version of it peddled to us so far, was perhaps inevitable. It sounded sophisticated but didn't make much sense. There's no way its...

Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can’t buy. It’s an invisible energy with visible effects. - Marianne Deborah Williamson, American author and spiritual leader 'Je ne sais quoi'...

How would you react if an astrologer predicted you have less time left to live? Thirty years ago, on September 2, 1992, my cousin Funny drowned while immersing Lord Ganesha’s...

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...