Sandeep Sahu

By Sandeep Sahu The inevitable has happened. After resisting complying with the Supreme Court order to lay down office as per the recommendations of the Justice RM Lodha Committee, Asirbad Behera, the uncrowned king of...

By Sandeep Sahu The incorrigible Abu Azami has done it yet again! Three days after a group of men brought shame to the city of Bengaluru, the country at large and men folk in general...

By Sandeep Sahu The surprise is not that the law finally caught up with him – in faraway Bangkok – but that it took so long! If law really had the ‘long arm’ that we...

By Sandeep Sahu After Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, it is now the turn of Union Petroleum minister and BJP’s supposed Chief Ministerial face Dharmendra Pradhan to jump on to the ‘NEET in Odia’ bandwagon. In...

  By Sandeep Sahu The death of engineering student Rishi Mohanty in May this year and its alleged link with the sex tape that has been the talk of the town for nearly a week...

By Sandeep Sahu Ah, the sheer helplessness of the hapless citizen! The man who arrived in the state capital in the morning after a long-distance, all-night bus journey only to find that there are no...

By Sandeep Sahu Things are assuming ridiculous proportions now. As if the average of three modifications a day to the rules for the exchange of demonetized Rs 500 and 1000 currency notes since the announcement...

By Sandeep Sahu Nothing sells like sleaze. But when sleaze combines with crime and politics, it makes for an explosive concoction. And that is precisely what we have been witnessing for four days at a...

By Sandeep Sahu The abrupt adjournment of the winter session of Odisha Assembly on Thursday, a full fortnight ahead of schedule, follows the pattern set during the last few years. Even Assembly regulars would be...

By Sandeep Sahu 500 meters! That’s how far the Supreme Court has drawn the lakshman rekha for liquor shops by the side of state and national highways. The idea behind the directive is, of course,...

By Sandeep Sahu The lengths – and depths – to which the state government went to foil the farmers’ rally proposed to be held in Bhubaneswar today by the Navnirman Krushak Sangha (NKS) make one...

By Sandeep Sahu When was the last time a session of the Odisha Assembly passed off without teachers taking to the street in front of the august house, camping there for days on end and...

By Sandeep Sahu Ah, the romance of Test cricket! As Virat Kohli and his boys wrapped up the series 3-0 against England at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai early on Monday, my mind went back...

By Sandeep Sahu In the normal course, the announcement by the Housing and Urban Development (H & UD) minister Pushpendra Singhdeo in the Odisha Assembly on Friday that ‘directions have been issued’ for demolition of...

By Sandeep Sahu In the one month since Prime Minister Narendra dropped the bombshell called ‘demonetization’ on an unsuspecting people, the ‘official’ objective of the mammoth exercise that has affected the economic activity of every...

By Sandeep Sahu What can one possibly say about J Jayalalithaa that has not already been said? Precious little, I guess, especially if you are based far away from Tamil Nadu. But since the entire...

By Sandeep Sahu Even by its own ignominious record of going to ridiculous lengths in its misplaced zeal to ensure that nothing goes wrong during Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s visit to any area, what Odisha...

By Sandeep Sahu Rs 2032350000000 crores!!! That is one hell of a lot of money!! If even half the ‘investment intent’ expressed at the first-ever Make in Odisha conclave that ended in Bhubaneswar on Friday...

By Sandeep Sahu My mind was flooded with a deluge of questions yesterday after the Supreme Court decreed the mandatory playing of the national anthem at the beginning of a film and asked everyone to...

By Sandeep Sahu Poor Papu Pom Pom! The stand-up comedian must have thought he had left the worst behind after coming out of jail in August. A row over some comments about Lord Jagannath, the...