Sandeep Sahu

The Opposition attack on Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for his lack of knowledge of Odia is getting a little too repetitive for comfort. In the 20 years since the formation of the BJD, the supremo...

The print media in the state is on Cloud Nine – and understandably so. After all, an interview, exclusive or otherwise, with Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is as rare as lotuses in the Thar desert....

As the BJD celebrates 20 years of its existence today, it is perhaps an appropriate time to ponder over the question posed in the headline. Naveen Patnaik has had an unfettered, unchallenged reign for these...

We Odias pride ourselves on our egalitarian ethos. We flaunt the fact that efforts to polarize voters on the basis of caste, creed and religion have never succeeded here and taunt states like Bihar and...

The inevitable has happened. BJD supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has finally wielded his dreaded axe, which many suspected was rusting in his fourth term, on his Agriculture Minister Dr. Damodar Rout. The decision...

What a colossal loss of time, money and news space! For close to seven years now, the nation has been riveted on what has been described by commentators as the ‘Mother of All Scams’. Anchors...

There is now very little doubt that the Mahandi issue is fast turning out to be an albatross around the BJP’s neck. Party leaders and spokespersons in Odisha look distinctly fidgety and give the impression...

There are two ways to look at the Gujarat election results. You can either say it was a tremendous achievement on the part of the BJP to have beaten the anti-incumbency of five consecutive terms...

He was the quintessential non-conformist, a true iconoclast, a perennial rebel, a textbook bohemian and an erudite scholar who could speak and write with equal felicity on things as varied as international oil politics and...

The headline was hard to miss – and too salacious to skip the story. Here, in nutshell, goes the story that appeared in a leading Odia daily under the catchy title “Angel Priya bhabi asithile;...

We have set our bar really low. It is a measure of our extremely low expectation from officialdom that something that should have been par for the course is being hailed as an extraordinary act....

On a stroll in the park near my home this evening, I was struck by the number of young, smartly dressed, lovey-dovey couples in the crowd. They were all over the place: walking together holding...

Now that Rahul Gandhi is all set to take over as Congress President, it is perhaps an opportune time to speculate on how he should go about changing things in the party that has been...

The organisers must have been pleasantly surprised. With rains lashing the city almost all day on Friday, empty stands at the Kalinga Stadium, the venue for the ongoing Hockey World League (HWL), would have been...

We Indians just love honking. Day or night, busy road or empty, we just cannot do without pressing our fingers on the horn. And no, a brief, one-time press will not do; it has to...

The mask has fallen off. The Narendra Modi government at the Centre has proved that for all its talk of ‘cooperative federalism’, partisan party considerations outweigh its commitment to federalism, the bedrock of Centre-state relations...

As the nation braces to observe, with a heavy heart, the 25th anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid, there are some lessons that we must learn from this momentous event that has done...

There was this cousin of mine who fancied himself as a bit of a vaastu expert. On coming to know that I had bought a house in the city, he asked to be taken to the place...

Watching the triumphant return of Surendra Mishra aka Sura Baba to his fiefdom at Jhi’nti Sasan on TV on Saturday, one could not but marvel at the spell the godman has cast on his disciples. As...

Shehzad Poonawalla could not have timed it worse. He chose to take on Rahul Gandhi – no less – at a time when the Congress heir apparent was in the middle of a fierce, no-holds-barred...