OB Special

I met him for the first time when I joined the Home Department of the Odisha government in 1982. He was the Home Secretary. I had come on deputation from...

A friend of mine whose son has qualified for one of the top engineering colleges in the country is inconsolable. Because the son doesn’t want to join the engineering college...

That was college time. And a fantasy-laden, violence-ridden time it was. Please don’t get me wrong. The violence was not so much out there in the street as it was...

I joined the erstwhile Ravenshaw College in 1958 and stayed in East Hostel. Room number 36, a large lecture hall, was close to the hostel. The loud and smart footsteps...

Bhubaneswar: Woman documentary maker Lipika Singh Darai's 'Backstage' tugs at the heartstrings, enlivening the process, the transition, the loss of originality and the socio-political milieu that shaped puppetry in Odisha....

Switch on a news channel or open a newspaper, photographs framing Delhi’s pollution look grim. Everything is hazy and opaque. The sky can be grey one day, or a bit...

After completion of my professional training at the National Forest Academy, I joined for district training at Cuttack in 1984. Harmohan Patnaik, an IAS officer of the 1974 batch, was...

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...