Guest Column

Henceforth the idiom ‘as white as snow’ would seem so much out of place. In coal mining regions of Siberia, the Kuzbass area, the snow is black. The landscape is covered with toxic black…

A distant cousin of marriageable age on the lookout for an ideal match kept on ‘rejecting’ one marriage proposal after another. His mother, my aunt, who was both baffled and hassled at his…

At around 2 am on Monday that my phone rang many times, but was unanswered. It was my friend from Montreal (Sudeshna, one of the senior disciples of Pandit Birju Maharaj ji), who had called…

I was born and brought up in Odisha -- the dal imprint was always yellow till I went to Delhi for my higher studies. When I ventured out for food in Green Park and Hauz Khas areas, I came…

Odia films have a bright future because it can only rise after touching the nadir. That’s the silver lining for an industry which has for years not seen many original scripts. Stories of…

Sidney Poitier’s death at the over ripe age of 94 reopens the long-standing saga of struggle of Black life in the White world in general and in America in particular. His was the stupendous…

Devdas Chhotray, a 1971 batch IAS officer from Bihar cadre, is better known and acclaimed in Odisha as a poet, lyricist and writer. When he was not even 14 years old, his poems were…

Odisha had the first SDG budget in 2021-22 with an outlay of Rs 1,34,225 crore. SDG (Sustainable Development Goal) budget mainstreams the SDGs into state policy formulation, strategic and…

I think I will never be able to get over the shock that I received when instead of seeing a shiny new iPhone, my eyes fell on a rather battered cake of Rin and half a cake of Vim in the…

A single female colleague of mine in her early 30s, who had recently shifted to Bhubaneswar, was frantically looking for a house. She soon started panicking when she was unable to find a…