Opinion

TM Thomas Isaac The cover of the budget speech of Kerala this time was as much a subject of animated discussion as the budget itself.It featured a painting by Tom Vattakuzhy, which depicted the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. The painting captures in stark detail the...

Jayati Ghosh Originally, the Aadhaar program’s primary goal was to manage government benefits and eliminate “ghost beneficiaries” of public subsidies. But it has now been expanded to many spheres: Everything from opening a bank account to enrolling children in school to gaining admission to a...

Sujit Kumar Mishra Besides shelters to protect oneself from physical threats and natural occurrences, adequate access to clean fuel, electricity, clean drin king water and sanitation are essentials for public health. The National Family Health Survey (NFHS)–4 studied the status of Odisha on these parameters....

Anil Singh The resounding victory Aam Aadmi Party has registered by winning 60 of the 70 assembly seats in Delhi has enabled chief minister of the capital state Arvind Kejriwal to not only pull off an electoral hat-trick but also to answer the question, ‘Modi...

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...