Sandeep Sahu

Sandeep Sahu

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Sandeep Sahu is a senior Bhubaneswar based journalist with over 35 years of work behind him. He has worked for a host of top local, national and international media houses.

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Sandeep Sahu is a senior Bhubaneswar based journalist with over 35 years of work behind him. He has worked for a host of top local, national and international media houses.

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Posts by Sandeep Sahu

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Op-Ed: Of Fixers, Retainers And Indecent Proposals

A few months back, a friend from the university days called up. I was a trifle intrigued because he rarely bothers calling though we live and work in the same city. The friend, a senior...

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Op-Ed: Leave Sridevi’s Family Alone To Mourn Her Death

Grief has yielded place to vicarious curiosity. Just when everyone thought the customary round of mourning, breast-beating and obituaries had been done with comes the startling revelation that Sridevi, the Bollywood heartthrob of the 1980s...

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Op-Ed: Maheswar Mohanty Is Right: Money Wins Elections

Maheswar Mohanty is certain to be pilloried for his politically incorrect comment at an event in Puri today that even Mahatma Gandhi would have lost the election without money if he was to fight one...

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Op-Ed: Naveen-SRP Equation Makes Sense For Both Sides

With the high-voltage, bitterly fought Bijepur by-election over, the focus now shifts to the Rajya Sabha elections on March 23 in which three seats from Odisha would be up for grabs. Given the composition of...

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Op-Ed: Question Paper Leaks Through The Ages

It was my first ‘scoop’ as a journalist. Sometime in the summer of 1988, an acquaintance who was then a student of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), desperately sought me out. What he told me...

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Op-Ed: Random Thoughts on Mother Tongue Day

Why is Odia on the decline even after getting the coveted classical language tag? Why is it losing out to English, Hindi and other languages in public communication, especially among the younger generation? Why are...

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Op-Ed: PSU Banks’ Mantra: Punish The Needy, Reward The Greedy

The next time you go to a bank and find a pen worth the princely sum of Rs. 2 dangling from a string at the counter, you are bound to remember the Rs. 11, 500...

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Op-Ed: Sponsorship Deal with Hockey India Will Do Nothing For Hockey In Odisha

The accolades have been pouring in from all over the place. Hockey stars like Viren Rasquinha, PR Sreejesh and Dillip Tirkey have hailed the move as the dawn of a new era in India’s national...

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Op-Ed: Intelligentsia & fear of the bigger evil

It has been two days since the BJD formally lodged a complaint with the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) accusing leading Odia TV channel OTV of peddling ‘paid news’ designed to favour the BJP and work...

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Op-Ed: BJD Tirade Against OTV is a Sign of Nervousness

There are two ways to see BJD’s rather intemperate outburst against OTV on Monday. The first of these is that the ruling party, for all its bravado in public, is apprehensive of the unthinkable happening in...

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Op-Ed: Attack on Pandian’s house is politics of the gutter

That the holy cow is central to the BJP’s brand of politics is public knowledge. Everyone also knows that BJP backed think tanks have discovered many hitherto unknown virtues of cow dung and cow urine....

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Op-Ed: Teachers Must Stay Clear of Politics

My sympathies have always been with teachers of the state, who have spent more time protesting on the streets than teaching in the classes in the last few years as a callous and apathetic state...

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Op-Ed: Stop The Hatemongers Before It’s Too Late

Mercifully, it has now been taken down. But that does not diminish the gravity of the situation. That a Facebook group calling itself ‘Hindutva Varta’ has the audacity to publish a list of 102 girls...

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Op-Ed: A Litany of Unanswered Questions

What exactly has happened to Rajeswari (Mita) Kamila? What rendered the woman, who was fit enough to throw eggs at the Chief Minister’s dais during the Talasari beach festival on Wednesday, so sick that she...

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Op-Ed: Is It The Golden Era of Indian Cricket?

After two back-to-back, thumping wins thousands of miles apart by the Indian cricket team over the last 24 hours, it is perhaps time to ponder over the question: is it the golden era of Indian...

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Op-Ed: Big Brother Is Watching You

Let me, for a change, start with a joke – and a scary one at that. Given the speed and frequency at which WhatsApp forwards move these days, it is possible many of you have...

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Will Bijepur Change Anything?

Rarely has an Assembly election received so much of attention – and for so long. The spotlight turned to this little known constituency in Bargarh district soon after the untimely demise of sitting Congress MLA...

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False Affidavits Mar the Sanctity of the Electoral Process

The setting aside of the election of Jogesh Kumar Singh of the Congress as the Sundargarh MLA by the Orissa High Court on Tuesday has brought into sharp focus an issue that has not been...

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Bijoy Mohapatra All Set For ‘Homecoming’?

Political prediction is always fraught with risks. Even seasoned commentators have ended up with egg on their faces after crystal gazing into the future. But ‘Scandeep’ will still stick its neck out and predict that...

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Spreading Light Amid Darkness All Around

Attending a day-long function in Sambalpur last Tuesday was a revelation for this columnist. The occasion was the felicitation of 50 ‘Change Agents’ unearthed by volunteers of ‘Yes We Can’, a unique organization that aims...

Sandeep Sahu is a senior Bhubaneswar based journalist with over 35 years of work behind him. He has worked for a host of top local, national and international media houses.

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