OB Special

On the occasion of Teachers Day yesterday, we spoke and heard many speak about the role of teachers in their lives. On other days, however, we all can be heard...

The stubborn refusal of the Congress top leadership to revive the party is confounding indeed. The recent fracas over a call to action appeal from a section of impatient leaders,...

Three million plus, and now sky is the limit. Experts have stopped devising false ceilings after they were breached by the virus every single time. It's okay that we no...

In our movies many decades ago, the police landed on the scene after the hero was done with his heroics. They always arrived late. The officer, wielding a megaphone, asked...

Is democracy dying? The answer to this depends on whom you ask. The diehard supporters of the current dispensation in India would say it is very much alive and kicking,...

"I am rediscovering myself. And I am indeed amused by what I am," says the friend without a trace of humour. Active in the social sector for long and now...

The happy early childhood memories of this middle-aged friend comprises to a large extent experiences with a couple of Muslim neighbours in a government colony. Three kids of the families...

Aggression, in the Indian imagination, has to be in your face. It has to involve a lot of explosive words and physicality which must reflect in the body language. Being...

Bhubaneswar: Long before the freedom movement of early 20th century was launched, the British Raj was already gasping for breath due to the innumerable wounds - minor and major -...

Je ne sais quoi -- in French it means a unique, indecipherable quality. It roughly translates into 'X factor' in English. In case of leaders, it is the magnetic quality...