Opinion

Harish Barthwal Music has ever been integral to social, cultural and religious ethos of mankind. In wintry nights early men gathered around fire, danced and sang in accompaniment to music as a refreshing relief from drudgery of diurnal life. This energised them to take up...

SN Misra India is going through an unprecedented economic crisis, with the estimated GDP growth being scaled down to 8 per cent from an earlier estimate of 15 per cent. The wholesale price index has gone up to 12.94 per cent and consumer price index...

Santosh Kumar Mohapatra Fuel prices which have witnessed sporadic rise recently have surpassed the inglorious landmark of Rs 100 per litre in some cities. When the pandemic has been devastating lives and livelihoods, eroding purchasing power of people, dampening demand, the reluctance of the government...

Dr. Panchanan Dalai Bhubaneswar, besides being the capital city of Odisha and one of India’s smart cities, has been a city of historical importance due to its temples, architectures and urban planning. The historically sacred geographies in its vicinity and the urbane architectures inside the...

Bimal Prasad Mohapatra Now, US forces are leaving Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of Taliban facilitated al-Qaeda terror attack on US in 2001. And this is about to happen without accomplishing the forces’ much tom-tommed assignment of releasing the landlocked nation from the clutches of...

Melvin Durai It takes five to seven days and costs Rs 1,299 for an Indian to get a tourist visa for Bangladesh. But if you don’t have the money or you’re in a big hurry, there is another option: wear a tiger costume. Tigers have...

Bharat Jhunjhunwala Think of 100 computer professionals sitting in separate cubicles in a hall. They are solving a Sudoku puzzle with 50 rows and 50 columns. One who solves the puzzle first shouts that he has solved it and shares his solution with all participants....

Bighneswar Swain Ransomware is a type of malicious software cyber criminals use to block you from accessing your own data. The digital extortionists encrypt the files on your system and add extensions to the attacked data and hold it ‘hostage’ until the demanded ransom is...

Kirti Ranjan Mallick If the ocean was an economy, it would be the seventh-largest in the world but ironically only 5 per cent of this huge water body has been explored. For today’s changing world, the oceans are defining features on our blue planet. Millions...

Sudha Devi Nayak It was in the eighteenth century that the British felt the want of a good dictionary to know their language in more detail. Dictionaries were there with lexicographers making tremendous efforts at corralling the entire language. One of the greatest literary figures...