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Bhubaneswar: Long after English was forcefully established as the prime tool of globalisation, people around the world have been putting their own intonations and inflections on the language, in order...

New Delhi: Commute is the great leveller, whether you are a factory worker in Mumbai, or a techie living in Delhi-NCR, unaffordable rents push you to the fringes from where...

My son as a four-year-old used to regale us with a popular Hindi poem: Mummy ki Roti gol, gol, Papa ka Paisa gol gol. Not discounting his endearing recital, I...

On transfer of my father from Keonjhar, I joined Ravenshaw Collegiate School, Cuttack, in Class-VI in the middle of an academic session. I was assigned a seat next to Srimoy...

Kitchens of the West has the cook standing at a table or counter and using a knife. But mention a kitchen in eastern India, an image will surface of a...

A prominent Indian physicist, a brilliant teacher, a renowned educationist, the first director of Institute of Physics (IOP) (1974-89), Bhubaneswar, vice chancellor of Utkal University (1989-91), a leading public intellectual...

Bhubaneswar: There are beauty pageants, and there are big international beauty pageants. The Big Four female beauty pageants are universally recognized as Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss Earth and Miss...

How I wish there was a special word for female friendships! To encompass the huge gamut of emotion, experience, support, strength and sharing that connotes female friendships. Somehow, all the...

Kolkata/Bhubaneswar: Situated in Bhowanipore in southern part of Kolkata city, an Odia medium school set up by Utkalmani Gopabandhu Das in 1928 is lying in shambles. The school— struggles to...

Bhubaneswar: Can anything flow faster and smoother than water? Well, an Odia physicist and professor at National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER, Bhubaneswar) along with his collaborators from...