Opinion

Sudha Devi Nayak Julian Barnes’s “Levels of Life” is a meditation on love, loss and grief that touches us with an immediacy that is overwhelming. Martin Fletcher of The Independent has said “Anyone who has loved and suffered loss or just suffered should read this...

Rup Narayan Das Fakir Mohan Senapati whose birth anniversary falls today is remembered for his seminal contribution to Odia language and literature. Born in 1843 in Baleswar (Balasore) in colonial India, he grew up in the milieu of social inequity and injustice which found resonance...

Melvin Durai Millions of students in India are excelling in school and have bright futures. I have a feeling that Sai Anwesh Amrutam Pradhan is one of them. Sai, a student at MBS Public School in Bhubaneswar, is definitely going places, thanks partly to Mo...

Bharat Jhunjhunwala The Finance Minister should increase the budget allocations for science and communications and for providing direct cash transfers to all citizens. The former will lay the foundations of our economic prowess, while the latter will engage our manpower in productive employment, put purchasing...

SN Misra After the drubbing in the Adelaide Test (36 all out), Virat Kohli’s departure back home and Mohammed Shami’s injury, stand-in captain Ajinkya Rahane could not have bargained for a bumpier ride than when India took guard in the historic Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)....

It is no secret that America’s intelligence services have been in the crosshairs of one of the most ignorant, paranoid, and antagonistic Presidents ever to have held the office. Trump wore his distrust of spies and intelligence analysts on his sleeve, right next to his...

Dasarathi Mishra The World Trade Organisation (WTO), the first multi-lateral global organisation with rule enforcement rights saw the light of the day on 1 January 1995. The WTO succeeded the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) which had regulated world trade since 1948. Over...

Melvin Durai A prominent writer for an American literary magazine, The New Yorker, got fired recently because he inadvertently exposed himself to some colleagues, both men and women, in a Zoom meeting. During a break in the online work-related meeting, the writer, a married man,...

Ajit Ranade The welcome to the new year was wishfully cheerful, riding more on hope than on evidence.  Economic data that is coming out is still mixed, yet hopeful. But to have survived the year 2020 is itself a cause for celebration. Disease, death, economic...

SK Nag A futuristic city proactively and predictably adjusts city management infrastructure to facilitate and deliver a better living situation under its design philosophy. So, smart cities are fast becoming a need. But are these future cities intelligent enough to support such changed demands? Though...