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We have seen our own mothers, aunts and other female relatives and acquaintances surrendering the most productive years of their lives anchoring marriages, raising children and families. And one fine...

Bhubaneswar: A smart city is not just punctuated with green spaces, wide cycle tracks and parks. Ask Odisha-born researcher Raka Singh, who has 15 patents to her name, and she...

Bhubaneswar: Opening up on issues fuelling his much-discussed differences with mentor Biju Patnaik, veteran leader and former Union minister Srikant Jena said the former did not want him to contest...

It is as if fate had ordained that life and art synched in perfect harmony. Only days after becoming a daily commuter, as a result of an unexpected job switch,...

Children born before the nineties in Bhubaneswar are perhaps the luckiest. They not only played in Children’s Park but also rode bicycles -- safely -- on all roads, even to...

The other day, my husband showed me a social media post with a photograph of a post office with two separate queues for male and female with the former much...

If I were able to travel back in time to fix one thing, I would choose that night in Baripada forty years ago. It was on this night that I...

Did you know that Emperor Jehangir’s cook who created ‘Mughlai parantha’ was from Burdwan? That Chicken Manchurian was created in Kolkata? Does Malai curry owes its name to Malaysia or...

The last few weeks have been dominated by news about climate change more than usual, from the first Earthshot prizes being announced to the United Nations Climate Change Conference commonly...

I attended COP 26 and sensed the urgency, the helplessness and the laxity in approaches and preparedness by the various geographies of the world. I re-realised the utter necessity of...