Old Editorial
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Good sign
Recent polling in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Pondicherry and Assam has shown that average voting has been between 70 to 80 per cent. For a large democracy like India, this is a very healthy sign…
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Fear
The world over, people are affected by old thoughts that impress their daily lives even today. It is a scientific fact that humans emerged from South East Africa. The ancestor of today’s human evolved over the…
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Electrifying Bluff
The state of Orissa is dark again. Come summer and the heat, the first thing that happens is ‘power’ cut. Electricity, we were told, was available in excess to the demand in this state. That was…
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Snatch-and-Swallow Heritage
‘What we leave IN our children is more important than what we leave FOR them’ is an oft quoted line. Most of us do not, usually, pay much heed nor are we prepared to ponder over…
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Pure as fresh snow
The Orissa government has been quite embarrassed with the Court asking why a CBI enquiry should not be conducted into the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) fund embezzlement in the state. The concept…
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Public on Corruption
There was an old Hindi song that went ‘Yeh public hai yeh sab jaanti hai…’. Although one will not be able to vouch on the ability of the Indian public to really know everything, in spite…
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Sweet Hit Back
The High Court of Orissa recently ruled that a few organizations like the Police Officers’ Association, Police Constable and Havildars’ Union and the Judicial Officers’ Association could not go on strike and stop work. This decision…
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Adi Vasi
Long, long ago, man was created, supposedly, from Eve and Adam. Religions emanating out of the Middle East, such as Judaism, Islam and Christianity all have very similar names and narrations in stories depicting the beginning…
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Citizen’s Rights
Most of us in India would have heard about our Rights and Privileges and how they are being trampled upon by so many forces such as the Police, Municipalities, Electricity department and also by the sewage…
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Homely Girls
Many a north Indian newspaper carries matrimonial advertisements in multiple pages. It’s all about grooms looking for brides or brides offering themselves for marriage. Words like ‘wheatish complexioned, convent educated and homely’ usually indicates, to the…
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One Prayer Here
April 02, Saturday evening, the whole nation came to a standstill. India won the Cricket World Cup at Bombay. Playing against Sri Lanka, this victory came to India after 28 years of being in the sidelines.…
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Interesting Times
The times may be changing but many things in life remain same and yet in motion. Media for instance. When we in Orissa are witnessing a major upward movement in our lifestyles, there is also a…