Santosh Kumar Mohapatra CoVID-19 has triggered both colossal health risks to the public as well as economic danger. The shock to the global economy from CoVID-19 has been both fast and more severe than the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC) and even the great depression...
Read moreDasarathi Mishra RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das has risen to the occasion to combat the impact of CoVID-19 crisis on the Indian economy. He made a few announcements in the seventh bi-monthly monetary policy statement March 27, to mitigate the destructive effects of novel coronavirus. The...
Read moreDevdutt Pattanaik As a child in Mumbai, I watched Rajan Uncle perform Chakyar koothu. My parents were economic migrants from Odisha. My neighbours were from Maharashtra, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. And we got to see cultural performances that no one in Odisha, or Maharashtra, would...
Read moreDhanada K Mishra The late Prof Al Bartlett, a nuclear physicist and professor emeritus of University of Colorado at Boulder, once said: “The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.” The coronavirus crisis provides the best case to...
Read morePriya Ranjan Sahu Finally, the nation has heaved a collective sigh of relief. The four men convicted in the 2012 gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old Delhi girl, widely known as ‘Nirbhaya’, were hanged to death March 20. In the recent times, no crime...
Read moreSantosh Kumar Mohapatra CoVID-19 threatens to destroy many lives and the world economy as such. The World Economic Forum (WEF) has termed it a pandemic in the age of inequality. India has declared it a ‘national disaster’. Many states, including Odisha, have declared it as...
Read moreDevdutt Pattanaik Harappan civilisation, which thrived over 4,000 years ago, had seals of as-yet-unidentified goddesses emerging from trees, and goddesses riding tigers. Vedic religion that thrived 3,000 years ago, however, was primarily a masculine religion dominated by worship of Indra, Varuna, Agni and Soma, even...
Read morePiyush Ranjan Rout In 1948, Bhubaneswar became the modern capital of Odisha. It was the first planned capital city of independent India. Its plan kept in mind the convenience of women who would reside in it. Every facility, be it healthcare centre or market, was...
Read moreSabyasachee Dash & Bejon Kumar Misra US President Donald J Trump’s recent India visit could not have been timed better. It was speculated that the main agenda of discussion during the visit would be strategic partnership, terrorism and means to counter the rapid rise of...
Read moreNikunja Bihari Sahu Holi, the festival of colours, is also a playground of chemistry. The colours people playing Holi use are industrial dyes mixed with different inorganic bases that can have detrimental effects on our body and the environment. Four types of Holi colours are...
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For many babus, rules are only for others not for the heaven-born. An IAS officer in Kerala skipped home quarantine...
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The Centre has slashed interest rates on popular small savings schemes – a mainstay of nearly half of the nation’s...
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We select one disease to be mortally afraid of – and ignore all the diseases that we should be scared...
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The unplanned manner in which Prime Minister Modi declared the COVID-linked 21-day lockdown is taking a harsh toll. For instance,...
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