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#COVID-19: Information and a Pandemic
By Sambit Dash*
Worldwide spread of a new disease – a pandemic. A very rare event in one’s lifetime. And if you are reading this, you are living through one. What makes the coronavirus pandemic different than earlier ones is the radical…
Biju Patnaik and his Dakotas
By ANIL DHIR
A piece of Odisha’s history lies in forgotten ignominy in the remote village of Ngota in the Province of Yogyakarta in Central Indonesia. Few know about it, none from Odisha may have visited it, but this memorial signifies…
Biju Patnaik, the self acclaimed Naxalite
By ANIL DHIR
Biju Patnaik’s second term as Chief Minister came nearly 30 years after his first short-lived spell. He was disappointed to find that the bureaucrats, administrators and elected representatives were very different from what…
Delhi Elections: All Eyes on AAP
By Dhanada K Mishra*
The campaign is done and dusted! The exit polls are out! They predict the same overwhelming victory for the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP government in Delhi that was also predicted almost unanimously by all pollsters in…
Novel corona virus: No need to panic, but complacence can be lethal
By Pinaki Panigrahi* and Dhanada K Mishra*
The new type of corona virus infection reported in late December 2019 in Wuhan, China has now attracted world attention. Not just the threat of life, but the economy and stock markets…
Of men and cooking!
By Sritapa Mishra*
It took me ten years after being born in this planet and this country to realise that it is not normal for a man to cook. Not only cook but be somewhere around the kitchen even or helping his wife with other household…
The Encounter of Indian Judiciary!
By Shradha Das*
“And do not kill the soul which Allah has forbidden to be killed, except by legal right. That has he instructed you that you may use reason”
-The Quran 6:151
Indian Judiciary is facing a season of loss in goodwill.…
Bhasani blues & Cuttack
By Charudutta Panigrahi*
These could be the last embers of the warmth of a joint family, a large gathering of siblings, of relatives, of children, of teenagers all hooked on to some thread of a common family identity or other. With…
‘Mo Sarkar’ in Odisha can be a global model
By Charudutta Panigrahi*
‘Integrity as wholeness and working together as one united service‘ has turned around Singapore to a dynamo, though pocket sized. Rwanda is manifesting to be a global leader in change management. Rwanda…
Gandhiji & Odisha
By Charudutta Panigrahi*
The “father of the nation” visited Odisha during the crucial years between 1921 and 1946, when the critical issues like the formation of the state of Odisha and the then prevailing economic poverty warranted…