By Sandeep Sahu All eyes are now fixed on March 11, the day the votes cast in the just concluded Assembly elections will be counted. While the Congress and AAP have a lot at stake...
As cases of yellow journalism go, this was a particularly deep shade of yellow. For those who don’t know, here is the whole story. Naradanews.com, a web portal headed by former Tehelka editor Matthew Samuel,...
By Sandeep Sahu The forecast is scary. Maximum temperature in Odisha this summer is likely to be 0.9 Celsius higher than ‘normal’. Coming as it did a year after what has now been universally accepted...
By Sandeep Sahu Even for those like this author who have nothing at stake on the issue, the images of tons of fresh tomatoes being crushed under the massive wheels of a truck in Keonjhar...
By Sandeep Sahu Four days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented Odisha as a ‘showpiece’ of poverty, starvation and unemployment at an election meeting in Gonda, Uttar Pradesh, the controversy over the rather unfortunate –...
When it comes to the portrayal of women, the media in Odisha has certainly come a long way in the last couple of decades. There is a lot more sensitivity in reporting issues related to...
Time, they say, is precious. But we Indians – middle class Indians, to be more precise – obviously have plenty of time on our hands, enough to while away in mindless, meaningless and absolutely frivolous...
Among the many contributions of Naveen Patnaik to the political lexicon of Odisha is the term ‘Third Floor’. While the term itself is of recent origin, the place it refers to has always been there....
By Sandeep Sahu What a turn-around it has been! In five days flat, the BJD, which deluded itself – and persuaded many others to believe likewise – that it is destined to rule till eternity,...
Just for the heck of it, I posted this poser on my Facebook wall last evening: “Shall we ever see Naveen Patnaik gracing the Opposition benches?” The responses started coming in a torrent and have...
By Sandeep Sahu Everyone knows it is a blatant lie, but no one really seems to mind. The lie that panchyat elections are ‘not fought on party basis’ has been perpetuated for far too and...
By Sandeep Sahu The ‘unofficial’ seat count in the first phase zilla parishad election given by television news channels on Monday evening varied widely. If Kalinga TV showed the BJD winning 120 out of the...
Has the BJP shot itself in the foot by inviting Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh to campaign for the forthcoming Panchayat polls in Odisha? By the looks of it, it appears it has. And...
By Sandeep Sahu Think of transgenders and the images that come flashing across the mind are those of garishly painted wannabe women landing up at your place for the customary bakhsis whenever there a birth...
By Sandeep Sahu Having announced to the snooping landlord that I would be checking out the next day, I was determined not to return without finding a new accommodation, but did not know where to...
By Sandeep Sahu Suddenly, there are few takers for houses on rent in Bhubaneswar. Just about everyone in the city seems to have a house – even those who squatted on public land till a...
By Sandeep Sahu He fits the expression ‘an enigma wrapped in a mystery’ like very few politicians in Odisha do. It is hard to think of another neta who remains relevant without being a minister,...
By Sandeep Sahu It is the worst time to be a journalist in years. Never before has it so happened that you are in the middle of chasing your latest story when you get a...
The preparations at the government level begin months before. But the obsession in the media sets in just about a fortnight ahead of D Day (‘B Day’ would be more appropriate though). Edit pages of...
By Sandeep Sahu It looks straight out of The Arabian Nights. Since l’affaire Penthapala burst on to the scene in panchayat poll-bound Odisha 10 days ago, each day has brought a fresh story, each more...
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