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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.

Society and Life

The Amendment That Defined Nehru

Prof. Satya Misra (Dean, KSOM) May 27, 2022 0

On 16 th May 1951, PM Nehru moved the first constitutional amendment bill, ominously declaring that the magnificent Constitution that he and his compatriots in the Constituent assembly had framed fifteen months earlier had been purloined…

Sports

The Monkey Gate that Never Closed

Prof. Satya Misra (Dean, KSOM) May 18, 2022 0

In a ridiculously talented Australian team of the 2000s, Andrew Symonds was a standout all- rounder. He was a mercurial but impactful cricketer for Australia whose performances always changed the course of the game, like they did in…

Society and Life

Theatre’s Renaissance Man Turns 84

Prof. Satya Misra (Dean, KSOM) May 14, 2022 0

Girish Karnad was one of modern India’s greatest cultural icons, an accomplished actor, a path breaking director, a clearheaded & erudite thinker, a public intellectual and activist and above all the most extraordinarily gifted…

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Right to Freedom & Contours of Reasonable Restriction

Prof. Satya Misra (Dean, KSOM) May 13, 2022 0

The Indian Constitution in Part Three has incorporated many Fundamental Rights which, if taken away arbitrarily by the state can be challenged in High Court & Supreme Court. These were hugely influenced by The Magna Carta (1215) &…

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Satyajit Ray at 101 : Cinema’s India in Black & White

Prof. Satya Misra (Dean, KSOM) May 2, 2022 0

He was an oddball in the Calcutta of 60s, teeming with anarchists, Trotskyites, Mao devotees and loonies believing in flat earth. The intellectual to population ratio was high even by the usual Bengali standards. Yet he stood out,…

Society and Life

Ethics, Entrepreneurship& Swadeshi: A Tribute to Madhu Babu

Prof. Satya Misra (Dean, KSOM) Apr 29, 2022 0

Nineteenth century Odisha had a flourishing industrial base. The weaving of cotton cloths, silk, brass, metal, filigree & leather constituted the core of Orissa’s rural industry. Sadly, they had all vanished due to the wanton neglect…

Sports

The Blond Bombshell

Prof. Satya Misra (Dean, KSOM) Mar 22, 2022 0

Kerry Packer, the tycoon who engineered the rebel series in 1977 in Australia, with the tagline “Big Boys Play at Night’ once told Shane Warne: ‘Sell the blue Ferrari, son, lie low for a while’. Shane writes in his autobiography 'No…

Society and Life

The Feminist Movement & the Challenge of Breaking The Bias

Prof. Satya Misra (Dean, KSOM) Mar 5, 2022 0

Simon de Beauvoir, the French philosopher wrote in her seminal book ‘The Second Sex’’ (1949): ‘You are not born a woman, you become one’, to underline the fact that gender distinction is the fundamental source of women’s oppression.,…

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The Handshake That Changed the World

Prof. Satya Misra (Dean, KSOM) Feb 22, 2022 0

Several historic handshakes between arch political rivals have changed the world. Like the one between Ronald Regan and Gorbachov in 1985 that ended the ideological cold war between USSR & USA, disintegrating USSR by 1991. Or between…

Governance

THOUGHTS ON THE 72nd CONSTITUTIONAL DAY

Prof. Satya Misra (Dean, KSOM) Nov 30, 2021 0

As India celebrates its 72nd Constitutional Day it would be appropriate to recall what Justice John Marshall, the longest serving Chief Justice of US, had observed “a constitution is framed for ages to come and it is designed to approach…

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