Old Editorial
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People Above Posco
Tragedy keeps revisiting the people of Dhinkia after their destiny was handed over to South Korean steel company Posco some years ago. After the golden spot was chosen and the deal signed, the peaceful and uneventful…
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The Evil Rises
The law will take its own course indeed! In India and especially in Orissa wherever a bunch of hooligans can get together, they can hold the system to ransom. This may be construed as the law…
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Learning Lessons
Land has been one of the first possessions of the human race in this very world. Once the nomadic man found a spot where he could be comfortable, he demarcated it as his territory. In fact,…
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Test the Teachers
Orissa has emerged as an education hub in recent years. Apart from a host of private engineering, medical and management institutes of repute that have set up base, the state also boasts of government sponsored research…
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Corporate Invasion
The corporates are taking over. We have been harping on this for a long while but the invasion is finally becoming evident in every sphere. It’s like the alien invasion in blockbuster Hollywood movies. The difference…
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Bo,Bow
Like all pet dogs, US President Barack Obama’s Portuguese Water Dog Bo also barks. But when his Master starts barking at India `bow, bow,’ our caravan should move on without taking any notice of a non…
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Burden the Oriya…even further
The State government seems hell bent on burdening the poor Oriya even further. Today, the farmer is incapable of getting his land tilled, sowed or harvested as people are unavailable to work in villages. The farmer…
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Prime Presidential Minister
The race to reach the Raisina Hill is hotting up. Votes for this election will come from the Lok Sabha and the Legislatures. Total number of voters of all these Houses put together is 4,896. There…
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Poverty feeds wealth
Nowhere has this been proven more apt than in developing countries like India. Images of poor starving Indian kids, hungry faces of infants in Somalia, the sad story of HIV positive patients in Brazil does much…
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True Blue Mayhem
Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains. That was the clarion call of the original leftists or socialists. When the industrial revolution (1750-1850) took place in Europe, sidestepping agriculture, the…
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Possible Green Fraud
Posco again. Most readers in Orissa are kind of tired of hearing this name. The giant South Korean steel maker, supposedly expected to invest 12 billion dollars in the form of foreign direct investment (FDI) in…
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No Galls
General V K Singh, the Indian Army Chief, is once again in the news for all wrong reasons. He thinks he dropped a bombshell by making the disclosure that he was approached by a lobbyist with…