Guest Column

Biraja, an invincible warrior

24/07/202525/07/2025Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

Leading a life of your own choice or navigating things whichever ways you want is something that hardly comes into reality. Life shapes and moulds us on its own. Sometimes the dreams are swept away like the cobwebs, bringing in immeasurable hardships in life. Some of us give in or succumb to such uneven and […]

The great Odisha temple loot

22/03/202223/03/2022Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

Anil Dhir Bhubaneswar, March 22: The spate of idol thefts in Odisha in recent days is an indicator of organised crime in the State. Odisha tops the list both in temple idol thefts and the failure to recover the stolen artifacts. In every decade since the 1950s, the number of idols smuggled out of India […]

India Peace Memorial at Lokpaching and the unacknowledged Odisha connection

23/01/2021Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

By Anil Dhir The Battle of Red Hill was fought from May 20-29 in 1944. The small hillock was on the Tiddim Road, 16 kms away from Imphal. The surroundings, with its reddish soil, represented the farthest the invading Japanese Army and the INA could approach into India. It was the last major battle […]

Corona, Classroom & Curriculum: Combating Crisis

18/04/202019/04/2020Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

By Sraban Kumar Bag It is unarguably an accepted proposition that, ‘the pandemic ‘Corona’ has brought a great deal of concern on the present education system of our country, particularly to the classroom process, curriculum planning and preparation for the next academic session’. As we know the outbreak of this pandemic took place at the […]

Non-believers, an emerging creed

15/07/2019Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

Binayak Prasad Pradhan Saying, “I am an Indian.” cannot certainly suffice to ascertain one’s identity in a culturally, linguistically and ethnically diverse country like India. A series of other factors go into the making or constitution of our identity. Empirical realities of our country are often measured through various sociologically constructed attributes. Which religion […]

Advantage of being a ‘Netizen’

15/07/201915/07/2019Odisha News TuneLeave a Comment

Binayak Prasad Pradhan I am a ‘netizen’. My day starts either with dropping a post in Facebook (FB) or a ‘Good Morning’ message in WhatsApp. That doesn’t suffice simply. I can’t let my post be ignored in the blizzard of things. As a ‘normie’, I keep on waiting with a lot of enthusiasm for […]