OB Special

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 title, the lockdown has...

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...

  The sunrise of 2020 was merrily welcomed by everybody. The number 2020 was rhyming good for all of us. COVID-19 pandemic was also rising on the horizon of human...

I live with my family in Southern California and work as the head of a medium-sized pharmaceutical manufacturing unit with little over 50 people in the company. On March 12,...

Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder that affects how the brain normally functions. It interferes with the person's ability to act, think or feel. Schizophrenia is associated with a lot...

In hindsight, social distancing, the expression that has gained wide currency in the wake of the pandemic scare, may have been a bit off the mark in describing one of...

The imposed Nation-wide Lockdown since March 25, has brought-down everything into standstill, putting a pause to many cinematic activities too. Amidst a difficult time for budding Actors,  former Mr. Glam...

It is the well-heeled who allowed the virus a free ride to the country. And it's the poor who has to pay the price. Even as they wage a desperate...

It was a balmy day on March 2, 2001, following the melting of the snow, in the picturesque Bamiyan Valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan that years ago...