Sandeep Sahu

By Sandeep Sahu It has been 17 long years. But the memories of those dreadful 36 hours remain fresh as if it all happened yesterday. The Met department had sounded out a warning about a...

By Sandeep Sahu The fun has gone out of Diwali. And, for that matter, every socio cultural festival that everyone has such wonderful and fond memories about. Weeks before the actual event, the do- gooders...

By Sandeep Sahu Any death is tragic. More so when the death is caused by a bullet. It doesn’t matter who the deceased is. The killing of an Army jawan in the line of duty...

By Sandeep Sahu There is something about all things first in life that make them very special: your first bicycle ride, your first brush with angoor ki beti, your first love, your first child … you...

By Sandeep Sahu For once, security forces engaged in anti-Maoist operations have something to rejoice about. On the receiving end of Maoist depredations for long, they have registered a spectacular success in an area that...

By Sandeep Sahu It is so easy to criticize the government. It can be blamed for anything and everything that goes wrong – from the rain gods playing truant to a bus falling off a...

By Sandeep Sahu The inevitable has finally happened. Four days after the fire mishap at SUM hospital on Monday evening that has so far killed 25 people, Health minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak has submitted his...

By Sandeep Sahu We Odias love nothing more than a conspiracy theory. We can smell one in something as commonplace as someone having a cup of tea. So it was hardly any surprise when all...

By Sandeep  Sahu Odisha Congress is back to doing what it knows best: indulging in factional feud. Reports from Delhi suggest things have reached tipping point. Coming as they do less than four months before...

By Sandeep Sahu By now, everyone who knows him knows his ways. Maverick former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju revels in offending people, communities, states and everything else that one can think of. So, aren’t...

By Sandeep Sahu Ah, the romance of writing in the longhand!!! The geeks of today cannot fathom this fascination for the longhand in an age when the mouse and the keyboard rule the world. But...

By Sandeep Sahu Suddenly, Raavan is getting a complete makeover. The man (Or is it demon?) we have all grown up believing as evil incarnate is all of a sudden being seen as the epitome...

By Sandeep Sahu I seriously doubt if Sunita (name changed) has ever made a call on her mobile phone. Every time she makes a call, it’s a ‘missed call’, the Great Indian Innovation. For some...

By Sandeep Sahu Nothing unites India more than war and cricket – or so went the conventional wisdom. The heart-warming example of the late Atal Bihari Vajpayee, then an Opposition leader, christening Indira Gandhi as...

By Sandeep Sahu There is something fundamentally wrong with our governance that stirs the administration into action only after something has assumed the proportions of a full blown crisis. The same flaw makes the government...

By Sandeep Sahu No two cities can have more in common. They have both been great cities in the past. They have both been great centres of learning, of intellectual pursuit and artistic/cultural excellence, of...

By Sandeep Sahu Time was when the college campus was the cradle that spawned the leaders of the future. Before independence, the college campuses were the places where the issues of the day were debated,...

By Sandeep Sahu The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has done well to drop six Odisha players selected to play in the East Zone under-19 one-day league for the Vinoo Mankad trophy...

By Sandeep Sahu Scams may come and scams may go, but there is one scam that goes on forever in Odisha: the scam in paddy procurement. It has got to a stage where irregularities (read...

By Sandeep Sahu It is hard to fault the All Odisha Bus Owners’ Association for threatening to go on a token 24-hour strike on September 29 and follow it up with an indefinite strike from...