Guest Column

The pitter-patter of a shyly receding monsoon greeted me as I stepped out of the airport. I was in the land of God's Own Country. It is a coincidence that it was time for Onam. What is…

I challenge you. Can you drive on Delhi’s roads for a week without losing your cool? If the answer’s yes, know that you are rare. I struggle. I have anger issues, but it’s much…

For some decades now, the municipal bodies and Odisha Government have been observing August 31 as the All India Local Self Government Day as if to symbolise the birth of civic bodies.…

A few weeks to go for the ODI World Cup, Team India looks far from a settled, let alone formidable, unit. The experiments with different players and combinations in recent times and the…

As I was browsing through the news today, I got to know that one of my favourite personalities from Odisha,  Jayanta Mahapatra, is no more. He was admitted to SCB Medical College and…

For any connoisseur of food – kebab will always remind them of the famous lines written by poet Ghulam Hamadan Mushafi ‘Sar e atish jo ashk rezaan thaa, kisi aashiq ki thi kabab mein jaan’ …

Have you quit your job when pushed to do something alien to your nature? Ten months into my first job, I faced this when my boss asked me to make cold calls to prospective clients offering…

After a couple of years in the doldrums, the beleaguered Hindi film industry appears to have rediscovered its mojo. A series of commercially successful movies this year has dispelled the…

Finally, one of the most blatant practices of gender discrimination through the use of archaic, derogatory, and patriarchal words and language has been taken into cognizance, and remedial…

Morning hours are busy for any Omfed outlet. Customers pick up a loaf of brown bread after having their regular quota of tea. Little do customers realise that switching to brown bread from…