OB Special

It was the quarterly Parent-Teacher Meeting (PTM) of Class I students in one of the leading schools of Bhubaneswar. But the atmosphere was no less sombre and officious than that...

All around me, I see single women struggling to manage their finances. They are single by choice, divorced, separated or widowed. Whatever their status, they don’t know ‘F’ of finance....

I was the Course Director (CD) for the 1993 and 1994 batches of officer trainees of Indian Forest Service (IFS) in the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy (IGNFA), Dehradun. As...

I have experienced Puri as a way of life. It is not only a place to live or visit. The sexual energy that pervades in Puri is intense, powerful and...

Unlike men, we women can’t do it anywhere and everywhere. We need to squat, bend, sit, manage our clothes while attending  nature’s call. We have to consider our monthly periods....

The pandemic has levelled all differences and divides of class, caste wealth, haves, have nots, the marginalised, bigots, believers, rebels, peacemakers, doers and non-doers, naukars and maliks, politicians, naysayers and...

The day Pratap Swain died it is said that many girls in Berhampur ‘broke their bangles.’ He was a ruthless criminal, but he could with his style of holding kangaroo...

After attending a zonal conference of BJP at Kolkata, when I came back to Sambalpur and got down from Samaleswari Express at 9.30 am, a shocking news was awaiting me....

Bhubaneswar: The much-anticipated expansion of Narendra Modi 2.0 has provided grist to the political mills here with the meteoric rise of Ashwini Vaishnaw, surprise selection of Bishweswar Tudu, dropping of...

It was a hot and humid May afternoon and I had accompanied my colleagues for a video shoot in a village close to Bhubaneswar. We were interviewing a family in...