Opinion

Piyush Ranjan Rout Bhubaneswar has many heritage structures and yet it is not a UNESCO World Heritage City; this is the situation when even less endowed cities such as Chandigarh and Ahmedabad enjoy this status. Kyoto, an ancient Japanese city located between Tokyo and Osaka,...

Sudha Devi Nayak There are several Manoranjan Byaparis we see every day in the periphery of our existence, at the cross roads selling flowers, at tea shops serving tea, at the railway stations carrying loads, at our homes cooking and cleaning and doing the work...

Jayakrishna Sahu The unending legal high-drama surrounding the hanging of Nirbhaya rape-murder convicts has once again enlivened the debate on capital punishment. Whenever a crime is committed in the most barbaric and gruesome manner, the collective conscience of the society gets shaken. From people on...

Dhanada K Mishra Around 11 PM on January 24, an under-construction reinforced concrete roof of a connecting building between the old and new terminal buildings at the Biju Patnaik International Airport in Bhubaneswar collapsed. One labourer died and another was seriously injured. The building was...

Santosh Kumar Mohapatra The budget speech Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman gave in parliament obscured the grim realities of a floundering economy and hoodwinked masses using statistical jugglery. Normally, the budgetary outlay is decided in tandem with expected rise of nominal GDP growth. Wrong assumption of...

Anirudha Barik and Balakrushna Padhi One prominent goal of the healthcare system is to meet health needs of the society in the most equitable and efficient manner. But access to government-delivered healthcare services has not been reliable for both rural and urban areas. The United...

Anil Singh Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has presented the budget for 2020-2021 at a juncture when country’s economy is in bad shape. Her budget speech was two hours and forty-two minutes long. When Dr Manmohan Singh presented the iconic budget of 1991, he, too,...

Devdutt Pattanaik Badrinath and Kedarnath are two major centres of pilgrimage in Uttarakhand; both are shut during winter months. Both centres are closely associated with Adi Shankara, the scholar who revived Vedic scholarship, about 1,200 years ago. He was the one who identified pilgrim spots...

Yogesh Pratap Singh & Ashirbad Nayak If all mankind, minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person was of the contrary opinion, mankind would no more be justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified...

Pritish Acharya Mahatma Gandhi was finally assassinated January 30, 1948; the assassin was Nathuram Godse. He was not alone. A group was with him; the leader was Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. While Savarkar justified any means for good ends, Gandhi insisted on good means for good...