While the judiciary needs help on many frontiers, from infrastructural to organisational, it is ultimately the people of a nation that uphold her democracy. If the people of India are strong in their resolve to rescue her democracy, the judiciary will not fail to play its part.

A large number of youth are looking for quality higher education. Models of education in the post-pandemic era are going to change in many ways. Odisha needs to reevaluate the older ways if it plans to be provide quality higher education.

As long as we do not believe in partitioning the humanity to play a violent zero-sum game with the “others”/“enemy”, it would mean confluence and not conflict, harmony and not hatred and progress for the entirety, and not prosperity only for the parts.

The purpose of Odisha Dialogues, aka Odisha Alochana Chakra, is to generate ideas on social, political, economic and cultural themes that touch on the state and people of Odisha, and also, presumably, India and the world at large.

Odisha has already taken strong first steps on climate impact policies. A smooth energy transition that mitigates the adverse effects of climate change through proactive public policies and coordinated public-private actions could create significant new economic and social value in the state.