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Bhubaneswar: Woman documentary maker Lipika Singh Darai's 'Backstage' tugs at the heartstrings, enlivening the process, the transition, the loss of originality and the socio-political milieu…

Switch on a news channel or open a newspaper, photographs framing Delhi’s pollution look grim. Everything is hazy and opaque. The sky can be grey one day, or a bit brown on another. You can…

After completion of my professional training at the National Forest Academy, I joined for district training at Cuttack in 1984. Harmohan Patnaik, an IAS officer of the 1974 batch, was the…

We have seen our own mothers, aunts and other female relatives and acquaintances surrendering the most productive years of their lives anchoring marriages, raising children and families. And…

Bhubaneswar: A smart city is not just punctuated with green spaces, wide cycle tracks and parks. Ask Odisha-born researcher Raka Singh, who has 15 patents to her name, and she tells you how…

Bhubaneswar: Opening up on issues fuelling his much-discussed differences with mentor Biju Patnaik, veteran leader and former Union minister Srikant Jena said the former did not want him to…

It is as if fate had ordained that life and art synched in perfect harmony. Only days after becoming a daily commuter, as a result of an unexpected job switch, I chanced upon a Sunday…

Children born before the nineties in Bhubaneswar are perhaps the luckiest. They not only played in Children’s Park but also rode bicycles -- safely -- on all roads, even to school. How…

The other day, my husband showed me a social media post with a photograph of a post office with two separate queues for male and female with the former much longer and with a comment –“In…

If I were able to travel back in time to fix one thing, I would choose that night in Baripada forty years ago. It was on this night that I willingly became a party to an act of vendetta…