OB Special

Uttam Nayak, a person with disabilities (PwDs), is from a village under Dhamnagar block in Odisha's Bhadrak district. He has been living in Bhubaneswar for the last several years. Uttam,...

One of the reasons why Hinduism faces ridicule from monotheistic religions is the plethora of gods and goddesses in its pantheon - upwards of 30 million as per some texts....

In the mid-1970s my father was posted as Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police, Sambalpur, but we continued staying at Cuttack due to academic compulsions. My mother used to go...

It was a late December evening when my husband and I decided to go for a movie in the multiplex, next door to our house. As we were settling down...

Team India are in an enviable position of being 1-0 up in an away series in England at the end of two tests. It could very well have been 2-0...

I have always compared the art of her performance with the art of writing elegant hieroglyphs. You could sense the mystery and see the beauty of complete submission to the...

The news felt unreal as long as it came in an aerogramme. During the 15 to 20 days an aerogramme took to reach Norwich the news from home would go...

I was a Project Officer at Kolkata for Oxfam GB, a well-known humanitarian agency of Britain, when I got an offer from them to work for six months as an...

The Hong Kong restaurant, which is run by the Liu family, is one of Cuttack’s last surviving Cantonese Chinese joints. Incidentally, the Liu family has been cooking for the city...

As someone fascinated by technology, reading about the oldest computer in the world was a revelation. More than 120 years ago, in 1900, a shipwreck was discovered off the coast...