Dr. Vikram Keshari Jena
Author at The Eastern Times
Dr. Vikram Keshari Jena is an academic, researcher, and public intellectual from Odisha. His work focuses on media, politics, development, public policy, and Indian knowledge traditions, with an emphasis on critical inquiry, social transformation, and interdisciplinary dialogue. He has authored numerous academic books and currently serves as the Founding Director of the Centre for Adivasi Research and Development (CARD), Odisha.
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What Does an Odia Mine Teach the Management School?
Opinion · Updated at: Sep 26, 2026 · Priority 9
T here is something profoundly unsettling about a doctoral thesis that begins not in a boardroom, a stock exchange or a management classroom, but by following the trails of iron
When the State Itself Becomes Accountable: The NGT’s Warning to Odisha
Opinion · Updated at: Sep 26, 2026 · Priority 14
There are some government orders that make news because of their financial consequences. There are others that deserve attention because they expose a deeper crisis in governance.
India Educates the World, But Why Can’t It Retain Its Best Minds?
Opinion · Updated at: Sep 25, 2026
India has never suffered from a shortage of intelligence. It has suffered from a shortage of institutions capable of converting intelligence into enduring national power. This di
India’s Democracy Has Outgrown Its Political Architecture
Opinion · Updated at: Sep 12, 2026
India is approaching another great constitutional moment, and the debate over delimitation should not be reduced to a quarrel between northern and southern states. At its heart l
Odisha@100: Will Our Universities Build Knowledge or Just Distribute Degrees?
Opinion · Updated at: Sep 7, 2026
T he recent high-level meeting of Vice-Chancellors, Registrars and PG Council Chairpersons of State Government Universities, under the chairmanship of Higher Education Minister S
80 Years of Independence: Why India Still Has No Shanghai, Paris or Tokyo?
Opinion · Updated at: Aug 31, 2026
India has completed nearly eight decades of independence, yet a difficult question continues to confront us: why has a country of our scale, intelligence, resources, civilisation
Why India Needs a Civil Service Revolution Before 2047
Opinion · Updated at: Aug 27, 2026
The greatest tragedy of a nation is not poverty. It is the normalization of institutional complacency. Civilizations decline not because they lack resources, but because their go
Vision 2047: India Needs Intellectual Power, Not Just Electoral Power
Opinion · Updated at: Aug 25, 2026
Every generation inherits two responsibilities from history. The first is to preserve the civilisation it receives. The second is to enlarge its intellectual horizons for those y
The Future of Money Is Not Universal: Why South Asia Will Defy Silicon Valley’s Predictions
Opinion · Updated at: Aug 20, 2026
Few entrepreneurs have shaped the modern technological imagination as profoundly as Elon Musk. From electric vehicles and reusable rockets to artificial intelligence and brain-co
Odisha's Unfinished Destiny: Why a Land Blessed by Nature Still Waits for Visionary Development
Opinion · Updated at: Aug 17, 2026
T here are few places in India that possess as many natural blessings as Odisha. The state is endowed with vast reserves of iron ore, coal, chromite, bauxite, and manganese; fert
Why India Cannot Become a Superpower Before 2047: The Crisis of National Vision
Opinion · Updated at: Aug 12, 2026
India at 100 in 2047 is not merely a celebration of political independence. It is a test of civilizational seriousness. The uncomfortable question before the nation is simple: Wh
When Schools Become Factories: The Commercialisation of Education
Opinion · Updated at: Aug 1, 2026
E ducation has never been merely a service to be purchased in the marketplace. It is the foundation upon which democratic societies build citizenship, social mobility, innovation