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Normalising Images Of Suffering Migrants Is Another Pandemic
Images are powerful than words. We normally get accustomed to the kind of images we encounter on a regular basis. Getting used to an aberration for a few months can make us accept aberration…
Corona Notes: Attitudes & Priorities Might Change For The Good
Until the COVID-19 pandemic struck, most of us simply took ‘hangouts’ with our friends and families for granted. We would be reckless with our cellphones – answering texts in the middle of…
Corona Diaries 27: Our Clay Dams Against A Tsunami
It's getting worse. Consecutive lockdowns now look no better than crumbling clay dams before a tsunami. As this piece is being written, COVID-19 cases in India have surpassed the 1.5 lakh…
Corona Notes: On Missing School & Playdates
I’m writing to you from Canada and as you know right now we are in the middle of a pandemic. I live in Calgary, Alberta, and things here are not great because right now they are not letting…
Corona Diaries 26: Silence Of The Sexes
It's been a while we spoke about the sexes during the lockdown and had a light-hearted look into their predicament. In confinement together for such a long time, tied to similar routines and…
COVID Impact On Legal System: What Should Be The Way Forward ?
Following declaration of nationwide lockdown and other preventive measures to confront COVID-19 pandemic some interesting facets have come to light as regards the working of the judicial…
Show Your Artistic Talents, Participate In Odisha Bytes & Odisha Sambad’s Corona…
Bhubaneswar: Encouraged by the runaway success of our maiden event ‘Lockdown Recipes’, we are rolling out our second event Corona Creativity to motivate you and your near and dear ones to…
Of Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow
Having lost the track of time over the last few days preoccupied with matters urgent that made me forget the events that makes the day significant, I settled down in the morning to rummage…
Lockdown Routines: Odia Master Chef Abinas Making Memories With Grandmom
The prolonged nationwide lockdown, necessitated by the Covid-19 pandemic, has presented many with new opportunities.
For Odia boy Abinas Nayak, who recently clinched the MasterChef India…
Corona Diaries 25: The Virus May Have Lost Scare Quotient, But Good Luck Still Counts
In one of these columns weeks ago, we talked about good luck. It is sheer good luck if you didn't have a tryst with the virus and got COVID-19, nothing else, the column said.
Things stand…