The tug of war between tradition and modernity has been a feature of all ages. Contrary to popular perception, it is not always a generational face-off. People of the same generation too differ widely on...
As the Naveen Patnaik government completes three years of its fourth term in office, the point to ponder is whether it has done enough in these three years to lay the foundation for an unprecedented...
Everyone has his favourite season. Most people I know love the winter the most. The child-like cuddling up inside the rajai; the mellow sunrays of the morning; lazing around in the afternoon; the simple pleasures...
Trust Naveen Patnaik to turn the tables on his opponents. In air dashing to Baripada on Thursday at a time when the temperature was hovering around the 45 degrees Celsius mark to personally ‘take stock’...
As I read about the ‘honour killing’ of Amrita Singh, the Rourkela girl strangulated to death by her relatives for the ‘crime’ of marrying a Muslim man, my mind inevitably went back 30 years in...
Much as I hate clichés, I would begin with one. Like him or hate him, but you just can’t ignore him. Just a week into his new innings at Republic TV, Arnab Goswami – and...
No matter how seasoned and prolific a columnist you are, there are times when you scratch your head, feel like tearing your hair apart and almost throw in the towel – thinking about what to...
The signals emerging from the series of meetings Odisha Congress leaders have had with party vice president Rahul Gandhi in the last week or so make one thing clear: it is all over bar the...
What is the big takeaway from Sunday’s reshuffle of the council of ministers, the biggest since Naveen Patnaik took over as Chief Minister in 2000? Even seasoned, eagle-eyed observers, who have mastered the art of...
Two decisions in two days by the higher judiciary have reaffirmed the common man’s faith in the country’s much reviled judicial system. In the first verdict on Thursday, the Bombay High Court not only upheld...
By Sandeep Sahu There is cricket. And then there is IPL. The two are worlds apart. Any resemblance between the two is – as the disclaimer at the beginning of every second Bollywood film never...
We all love trains. All of us have some fond memories of train journeys – even those among us who are unfortunate enough to live in areas yet to be covered under the Railway map....
Half a century after the Naxalbari uprising, the dream of a classless, exploitation-free and just society that fired the imagination of the young and the restless remains just that – a dream. Half a century...
Losing an election is part of the game for a political party. Every party has had its share of electoral setbacks, only to bounce back again. One just has to remember the stunning comeback of...
The more the BJD tries to hide it, the more it comes out: all is not quite well in the ruling party. Days after party supremo Naveen Patnaik cautioned his MPs at a meeting in...
Assembly elections in Odisha are still two years away. But the battle for the control of the media, especially of the electronic variety, between the two principal contenders for power is already getting uglier by...
By Sandeep Sahu Much has already been written on the Modi government’s decision to ban beacon lamps of all hues from the vehicles of all our so called VIPs, including the President and the Prime...
Over the last few days, there has been plenty of speculation, primarily driven by media reports, about a new developing axis between Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee. But...
By Sandeep Sahu On the day of his death anniversary, there is one thing that can be said about Biju Patnaik without any fear of ever being proved wrong: there will never be anyone like...
By Sandeep Sahu Amid the hullabaloo over the two-day national executive meet of the BJP beginning Saturday , a piece of news that would have certainly created a flutter at any other time has not...
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