Kasturi Ray

Beneath his designs which have created raves worldwide, lives an entrepreneur. Internationally-acclaimed fashion designer from Odisha, Bibhu Mohapatra was in Bhubaneswar for the Make in Odisha conclave when senior editor, OTV Digital, Kasturi Ray caught...

He sported the same demeanour as he used to years ago walking into the stadium ring. He walked just as tall, smart and confident. Though the cricketing pads, gloves and bat were no where near...

In an unfortunate unfolding of episodes, maybe the first of its kind in the country so far, lawyers who deal mostly with history-sheeters wrote an unjust chapter in the legal history of Odisha. They have...

The Nobel Peace prize 2018 announcement on Friday for Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad who worked towards ending sexual violence has been reassuring to say the least for all those women who have faced sexual...

The unstoppable and eloquent orator, former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, has finally fallen silent for all times to come. After struggling with health ailments at the AIIMS New Delhi for nine weeks, the 93...

By Kasturi Ray If Lord Jagannath and his ardent devotee Salabega are the reasons why singer Sona Mohapatra is being tagged as ‘a blot on Odias’; ‘a spoilt self proclaimed ambassador of Odias’ ; ‘a...

By Kasturi Ray If the Odisha Congress thought this 6-hour ‘chaka jam’ call protesting fuel price hike would assert its resurgence from an otherwise moribund state it has been since years in Odisha, it was...

By Kasturi Ray Time and tide wait for none. So do people who shuffle off the mortal coil. Late Bansidhar Panda was even more of an exception. On the final day of his life, he...

By Kasturi Ray Our bureaucrats seemed disturbed, worried and a harried lot. They felt threatened after what Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said to one of the senior officers at the NIC event on Monday. So much...

By Kasturi Ray Baijayant Jay Panda resigned. A move that was long awaited, anticipated and apprehended. The long pitched war of words that was continuing for months reached the zenith and calmed down the raging...

Waking up to broadsheets splashed with photographs of chief minister Naveen Patnaik with a catch line “Odisha is proud of its transformative leader,” was a bit difficult to digest on a day like this. The...

Bhubaneswar/Berhampur: Four decades of singing hasn’t made his voice sound any older than that of a 24 year old. Rather, age has mellowed him as much as his vocal chords to come up with that...

Abject poverty has disturbed her childhood true, but never deterred her spirit to excel. She chose to soar in academics and she did. Something, she as a 16-year-old, understands can get back dignity to her...

Early in the morning, when most adolescents his age are in deep slumber, 16-year-old Roshan Singh starts pedalling to a nearby field. A tee and shorts and a pair of worn out shoes is all...

Nagada remains a utopia, Period. Unlike most tribal dominated pockets of the state, Nagada is just two kilometres from mobile connectivity zone. Tucked into the dense forests is a place called Naliadaba, with just four...

Unwittingly or intentionally, Minister Damodar Rout often gets stuck up in the foot-in-mouth syndrome. If not always, the septuagenarian-veteran in the field, is frequently in news for speaking his mind, even if that makes him...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha has become the first state in the country to have got the clearance for the first Green Climate Fund Project (GCF). The project  “Ground water recharge and solar micro irrigation to ensure food...

New Delhi: A Bill to streamline the adjudication of inter-state river water disputes and make the present legal and institutional architecture robust was on Wednesday passed in the Lok Sabha by voice vote. Moving the...

Author of Democracy on the Road Ruchir Sharma had rightly said in his book that star power in Indian elections does play a role but transiently. What clicks in reel does not reflect in real....

Within the sophisticated interiors of ITC Sonar, Diyalu Nial seemed lost. Making efforts to escape the eyes of 20-odd journalists who were present there to talk to him, he was jostling for a space to...