Tag: Columnist

Bhubaneswar: Former Odisha MP and senior leader Baishnab Charan Parida passed away at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar today. He was 77. Parida was undergoing treatment since many days after he was diagnosed with cancer. He was a well known politician, columnist and a social activist. Parida had been fighting to bring the Odisha Official […]

It is not easy being a journalist in these polarized times, more so if you write opinion pieces. You write something that goes even remotely against a party, a leader or a school of thought and the trolls would pounce on you like a pack of wolves, ready to tear you into pieces in no […]

By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: Maoist rebels have warned the residents of a particular village in Malkangiri, state’s most formidable Red citadel, against using their mobile phones. Orapadar, located in the district’s Swabhiman Anchal ( earlier known as the cut-off area), is a dark hinterland with connectivity the biggest problem being faced by the people. With […]

By Sandeep Sahu Moderating a session as part of a seminar/workshop/discussion can be a thankless job, more so when you are not an expert on the topic being discussed, but a member of the ‘jack of all trades, master of none’ tribe like yours truly! You read up all that you need – and more […]

By Sandeep Sahu Life during lockdown is debatably the new living order. Officially, the nationwide lockdown is still on and will remain in force for 10 days more. But if you are out on the streets, you don’t quite realise it. Lockdown 4.0 is only a shadow of Lockdown 1.0 imposed on March 24 midnight. […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has come and gone after the customary ‘aerial survey’ of the areas in West Bengal and Odisha devastated by Cyclone Amphan. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who had done the same yesterday, accompanied the PM on the aerial survey today. The PM, of course, had done the same – making an aerial […]