Intellectuals and academicians pre-occupied with ‘armchair theorisation’ in past have been showing much sentisation towards the present socio-economic-political crisis coming forward with their research and academic skills to take up the challenges of development and the incarnation of the book titled ‘Orissa Vision 2020: Towards Building a New and Modern Orissa’ represents this divergence of past and present. The idea of such a book is innovative in the sense that the book is a statement of visions not in air but the visions coming out from research findings of the experts working in different issues of development like poverty, unemployment, industry – both large and small scale -, education, natural resource management, tourism, infrastructure, fishery and so on. Notwithstanding the fact that the articles in the book has been written on the issues
February 2007, volume 31, No 2