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Prof. S.N.Misra did his Ph.D. (Economics) on “Challenges, Before Self-Reliance in Critical Defence Technology”, a pioneering area on the subject. Initially he was the Indian Economics Service (1976-79) when he did Cost Benefit Analysis of World Bank Projects and handled International Development Agency (IDA) desk. Thereafter, he was an Officer in the Indian Defence Accounts Service (1979-2012), when he served as Director (Finance) with DRDO, Financial Advisor and Joint Secretary to Indian Air Force & JS (Aero Space). Post retirement, he teaches Economics and Constitutional Law in KIIT University and contributes handsomely to prestigious journals on Development Economics, Defence and Public Policy. He is a regular columnist in Orissa Post and speaks passionately in important fora.

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A Sui Generis Actor Passes Away

Prof. Satya Misra (Dean, KSOM) Jul 17, 2021 0

Ebrahim Alkazi ,who created and crafted modern Indian theatre honed a fecund crop of first rate actors ,like Om Puri, Naseeruddin Saha and Surekha Sikri. Surekha passed out of NSD in 1971 and was a star attraction of NSD Reportory till…

Society and Life

To Sir ,with Nostalgia

Prof. Satya Misra (Dean, KSOM) Jun 16, 2021 0

Prof Radhamohan,who was a gold medallist in Applied Economics in 1965, was my teacher in Dhenkanal College from 1972- 73.He was different from other faculties.Clothed like a Gandhian and wearing an unkempt beard , he spoke with the fervour…

Society and Life

Memories of a Remarkable Writer

Prof. Satya Misra (Dean, KSOM) Apr 29, 2021 0

As part of our Bharat Darshan in 1980, I peeled off to Aurobindo Ashram , when I ran in to Prof Manoj Das, who was teaching English there .I have two distinct memories , seeing a huge dish washing machine for the first time, where the used…

Society and Life

The Scars that will Never Heal

Prof. Satya Misra (Dean, KSOM) Apr 13, 2021 0

On 13th April, 1919, exactly 102 years ago, a British Brigadier General Reginal Dyer ordered firing at a crowd estimated at between 5000 – 30,000 which was completely peaceful and non-violent. He had not given any advanced warning when the…

Society and Life

NATIONAL AWARD FOR MANOJ BAJPAI

Prof. Satya Misra (Dean, KSOM) Mar 23, 2021 0

Rejected three times by NSD, Manoj Bajpai made his mark as the feisty Satya in crime drama Satya in (1998), a milestone in Indian cinema. Pinjar, Shool, Zubeidaa, Gangs of Wasseypur, Aligarh proved that he is no flash in the pan. In…

Sports

A WALK-THROUGH MELBOURNE’S MEMORY LANE

Prof. Satya Misra (Dean, KSOM) Jan 5, 2021 0

After the drubbing India received from the Australians in the Adelaide test (36 all-out), Kohli’s departure back home and Mohammed Shami’s injury, the stand-by captain Ajinkya Rahane could not have been wearier when India took guard in the…

Literature

Editor As a Searchlight

Prof. Satya Misra (Dean, KSOM) Oct 13, 2020 0

In 1981 when Harold Evans sat on the pinnacle of British journalism , The Sunday Times, and was writing his first policy editorial, he heard the voice of Abraham Lincoln in his ear. The President had said in 1861 ,' he knew nothing more…

Society and Life

In Search for Love & Truth

Prof. Satya Misra (Dean, KSOM) May 31, 2020 0

Ernest Hemingway wrote in the Oldman and The Sea(1952) : Why do old men get up early? Perhaps to have a longer day! He had not bargained for Netflix and Amazon , which has made even the oldies baying for a longer night, binge watching…

Book Review

Seeds of Liberalism

Prof. Satya Misra (Dean, KSOM) May 22, 2020 0

Seeds of LiberalismIn this remarkably well researched book, Dr Singh, a Post Doctoral Fellow at ICS, London, brings out how through the first amendment to the Indian Constitution in 1950, Mr. Nehru sought to justify that fundamental rights…

Society and Life

The Icon Turns 99

Prof. Satya Misra (Dean, KSOM) May 11, 2020 0

I had the good fortune of watching Satyajit Ray introducing Akira Kurosewa in the International Film Festival on 3rd Jan 1977 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, where his iconic film Dersu Uzala was being screened.. Satyajit introduced him as…

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