Sandeep Sahu

Sandeep Sahu

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Sandeep Sahu is a senior Bhubaneswar based journalist with over 35 years of work behind him. He has worked for a host of top local, national and international media houses.

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Sandeep Sahu is a senior Bhubaneswar based journalist with over 35 years of work behind him. He has worked for a host of top local, national and international media houses.

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Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw
‘Vaishnaw for RS’ is part of larger deal for Odisha polls

Vaishnaw had never been in parliament when he was named as the BJP candidate in 2019 despite the party lacking the numbers in the state assembly.

Pandian is now bigger than Naveen!
Pandian is now bigger than Naveen!

The Boss is now resigned, for whatever reason, to his former secretary running both the party and the state by proxy while he cools his heels inside the fortified confines of Naveen Nivas.

Pandian Will Be the 'Power Behind the Throne', not the 'King' !!
Pandian Will Be the 'Power Behind the Throne', not the 'King' !! 

There is little doubt that Pandian will call all the shots in the ruling party - and the government if the party, as widely expected, get another term in office.

Naveen Patnaik and VK Pandian
Both Naveen and Pandian Have Taken Huge Gambles

He has taken voluntary retirement from IAS with nearly a decade left of his service not to become an also-ran in the ruling party, but because he wants to be numero uno.

Naveen Patnaik and Soumya Patnaik
Odisha Govt’s Mantra: ‘Toe the Line or Face the Music’!!

The similarities between the two cases, five years apart, are stunning. Just as in the case of the raids on Sambad today, the elections were just a few months away when the organised, systematic and...

Ink Attack: VK Pandian’s Transition as Politician now complete
Ink Attack: VK Pandian’s transition as politician now complete

The police that had slapped Sec 307 (attempt to murder) charges on a bunch of Youth Congress activists who had dared to throw eggs on the Chief Minister’s cavalcade a few years ago – none...

Amit Shah with Naveen Patnaik
Amit Shah Visit Leaves State BJP Red-faced!!

Top BJP leaders from the state, who were having a discussion with the Home minister over a breakfast meeting, discreetly left the place as soon as Pandian arrived so that the two could have a...

Time for BJD, BJP to Revive ‘Formal’ Alliance!
Time for BJD, BJP to Revive ‘Formal’ Alliance!

At an informal level, they have always been in an alliance since Modi rode to power at the Centre in 2014. But it is now high time the two parties involved – the BJD and...

Naveen Patnaik
Naveen Patnaik Reign: A Mixed Bag

While his political exploits are well documented, not even the most seasoned political commentator has been able to put a finger on what exactly is behind his continuing honeymoon with the people of Odisha that...

Next polls won’t be an INDIA Vs Bharat battle
Next polls won’t be an INDIA Vs Bharat battle

Having announced the name of the alliance, the leaders of INDIA themselves appear to have realized the damage potential of this strange-sounding acronym as evident in the late-night decision to add a tagline “Jeetega Bharat”...

Manoj Das Memorial: What’s the Fuss About?
Manoj Das Memorial: What’s the Fuss About?

And pray what they were raising a din against? First, that Manoj Das was described as a ‘poet’. Was he not one? The din raisers clearly don’t know that the doyen of Odia writing started...

A Letter to a Father on ‘Father’s Day’
A Letter to a Father on ‘Father’s Day’

I remember the values you ingrained in me; the principles you lived by all your life (and often paid a heavy price for it) and the lessons you imparted in sharing the joys of life....

The Odisha Brand of ‘Democracy’!!
The Odisha Brand of ‘Democracy’!!

The most startling part of the whole thing is that everyone appears to be perfectly happy with this arrangement. Ministers fall over one other to pay obeisance to the officer. Bureaucrats way senior to him...

Heroes at IPL, Zeroes at WTC!!
Heroes at IPL, Zeroes at WTC!!

Test cricket, for them, is a needless distraction that has to be somehow endured till the marquee event. And the tragedy is: the players and the BCCI are on the same page on this.

“30 seconds of misery”
“30 seconds of misery”

Unknown to the intrepid reporter, the grieving woman and her angry relative, I too was recording the sound byte of the wailing on my mobile phone. My commissioning editor in Delhi had kept reminding me...

Karnataka Polls: Lessons for Both BJP, Cong
Karnataka Polls: Lessons for Both BJP, Cong

Those interpreting the Karnataka results as an early indicator of the defeat of the BJP in the coming Lok Sabha elections would do well to remember what happened the last time.

Wrestlers Must Guard Against Politicisation of Protest
Wrestlers Must Guard Against Politicisation of Protest

Political motives are being imputed to the protest by all and sundry in the establishment. A triumphant sounding Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the ‘sidelined’ president of Indian Wrestling Federation (IWF) who stands accused of sexual...

Of lies, damned lies and white lies: Odisha leads the way!
Of lies, damned lies and white lies: Odisha leads the way!

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it," says a statement attributed to Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels. Someone in the ruling dispensation in Odisha appears...

Congress president elections
High Command has only itself to blame for mess in Congress

What was supposed to be a question of who will become the next Congress president has now been reduced to who will be the next Chief Minister of Rajasthan!

A Tale of Two Foreign Visits by Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik
A Tale of Two Foreign Visits

As Naveen Patnaik readies for his second visit to foreign land, possibility of a ‘revolt’ looks as remote as the sun rising in the west!

Sandeep Sahu is a senior Bhubaneswar based journalist with over 35 years of work behind him. He has worked for a host of top local, national and international media houses.

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