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Bhubaneswar: Are Odisha's bureaucrats playing by the rules? The answer might be in the negative if the plethora of activities they are engaged in beyond their administrative responsibilities serve as...

In upper-middle-class and affluent Indian homes, there always used to be (and still is) an exclusive room called a Study. Historically, the Study was used as a room for reading, writing,...

The other day at school their fifth class English Sir was giving a lesson on anger. He recited a verse before writing it down on the blackboard. Anger is an...

I continued as a boarder in East Hostel of Ravenshaw College after completing my first two years in college in Intermediate Science. But I switched over to humanities discipline with...

The credit for the invention of Gin goes to the Dutch colonialists as this concoction was given to the malaria-afflicted patients in the tropical lands that they had conquered. Down...

The last couple of months has seen me participating in three separate elections - one as a contestant, one as a returning officer and the latest one as a voter....

There was ‘Breaking News’ yesterday, of a young Odisha journalist dying due to drowning while ‘covering live’ the rescue operation of a tusker stuck in the Mahanadi. Ironically, Arindam Das,...

M K Ranjitsinh in his book 'Life with Wildlife' has mentioned that while drafting Wildlife (Protection) Bill, 1972, he as Joint Secretary in Ministry of Environment and Forests wanted to...

When I resumed travelling post the peak period of the COVID pandemic this year, I was filled with the anxiety and paranoia of a first-time traveller. The all-pervading crowd and...

What does it take to be an astronaut? The bestseller ‘An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth’ by Chris Hadfield gives you an idea. How do you become an astronaut?...