OB Special

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...

Ashok Mohapatra was a post-graduate student of History in Utkal University campus at Vani Vihar, Bhubaneswar, while I was an Assistant Professor of Political Science in 1965. He was sharp,...

Bhubaneswar: All eyes are on Cyclone Jawad. I’m also following the news closely. I have been in Odisha -- in its capital, Bhubaneswar -- only during two cyclones: October 29,...

It was more than a decade ago and I was travelling in a bus from Bhubaneswar to Puri for a work assignment. A middle-aged lady sitting next to me began...