Bhubaneswar, April 20 -- Is our society going through political hypnotism? Intellectuals in Odisha have been deeply concerned over many sensitive social and economic issues that have been emerging during the time of the General Elections. They are deeply saddened as these issues have not been politically addressed elaborately.

According to Nobel award-winning Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, "Modern society is hypnotized by socialism. It can also be saved from the huge threat through socialism. The most dangerous threat is that you have lost all the thoughts about threat. You are also not able to see from where it is emerging as it is rushing quickly towards you."

It seems as if a complicated situation has been created due to two ...