Opinion

Melvin Durai An Indian restaurant in the city of Bath, England, made news recently when it sent a samosa into space. The samosa went all the way to a foreign land and was enjoyed by a samosa-loving creature of some sort. The samosa was sent...

Sampad Patnaik The Democratic Party does not appear to have a clear grasp over the nature of the mandate it has won. In a country desperate for economic relief, the Democrats are signalling they may repeat Trump’s cardinal mistake of ignoring promises on the economy...

Bharat Jhunjhunwala The farmers are agitating for ensuring the continuation of Minimum Support Price (MSP) by legislation. One aspect of this demand is that they be assured of minimum remunerative prices for their produce. Another aspect is that MSP can become the instrument for saving...

Dhanada K Mishra Two years ago I moved into the household of my current hosts - an Italian and Chinese husband-wife couple in Hong Kong. I found them using AirBNB - a service that allows people to host complete strangers as paying guests in their...

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...