Sandeep Sahu

By Sandeep Sahu We, in India, have this unwritten code; don’t talk or write ill of the dead. As per this code, you are expected to sweep everything vile, unsavoury or dubious about the dead...

By Sandeep Sahu The ongoing CBI investigation into the multi-thousand crore chit fund scam is fast turning out to be a theatre of the absurd. More than a year after it last questioned Balasore MP...

By Sandeep Sahu Every time I have gone to the place (CRP Square in Bhubaneswar) in the recent past, my eyes would unwittingly start looking for Appa Rao, the stockily-built cobbler who stays in a...

By Sandeep Sahu What Albert Einstein had said about Mahatma Gandhi could well be said – and equally befittingly – about Nabakrushna Choudhury, an illustrious disciple of the Father of the Nation. “Generations to come...

By Sandeep  Sahu Marriages, they say, are made in heaven. But if you are unfortunate enough to be getting married between now and December 30, 2016, your marriage will be made in the Reserve Bank...

By Sandeep Sahu So this was the showpiece event of the year-long Biju Patnaik celebrations for which preparations were apparently being made for months on end! But at the end of it all, the one...

By Sandeep Sahu The trumpeters of Narendra Modi would have us believe that his ‘surgical strike’ announced on November 8 has knocked the living daylights out of the corrupt and black money hoarders. But going...

By Sandeep Sahu Midway into his five-year term, Narendra Damodardas Modi‘s record as Prime Minister has been a mixed bag. He has notched up some notable successes and some equally notable failures. On the positive...

By Sandeep Sahu It is clear that AICC general secretary in charge of Odisha BK Hariprasad was engaged in a desperate exercise in damage control when he said that Lalatendu Biduyadhar Mohapatra – Lulubhai to...

By Sandeep Sahu It is a bewildering world out there. Forget the layman, even seasoned hacks of top notch media houses have been overwhelmed by the avalanche of misinformation, disinformation and motivated propaganda unleashed in...

By Sandeep Sahu It is no secret that politicians are held in extremely low esteem by most people in the country. And Monday provided yet another instance – if one was needed at all –...

By Sandeep Sahu Indians are nothing if not ingenious. Trust them to turn adversity into a business opportunity. One just has to look at the innovative ways some people have devised to work around the...

By Sandeep Sahu To give or not to give? How many times have you been confronted with this dilemma when you see a prematurely ageing woman in tattered clothes holding a baby or a haggard...

By Sandeep Sahu A disclaimer at the outset: this columnist is an illiterate in economics and financial matters. But since writing on something else would be nothing short of blasphemy on a day when the...

By Sandeep Sahu Residents of Odisha’s capital city have long got used to effigies of some political leader or the other being burnt by a group of people on the streets on the city. But...

By Sandeep Sahu 52 is no age to die for anyone, least of all a political leader there are hundreds of people ready to give their right arms for. His mentor JB Patnaik, who died...

By Sandeep Sahu Why is Naveen Patnaik not interested in national politics? It is all too obvious that the answer that he gave at the Odisha Literary Festival organized by The New Indian Express on...

By Sandeep Sahu Suddenly, the worst fears about the Modi government are threatening to come true. The one-day ban on NDTV India, the Hindi channel from the NDTV stable, on November 9 imposed by the...

By Sandeep Sahu BJD and Congress on the same boat! Unthinkable? Not really, if what Bhartruhari Mahatab, leader of the BJD parliamentary party said on Wednesday is anything to go by. The Congress is ‘not...

By Sandeep Sahu The jokes – some good, others nasty but all of them witty – began to flood Twitter as soon as the Big Breaking News started doing the rounds this evening: Arnab Goswami,...