Mruttika currently under way at Exhibition Ground is showcasing handmade terracotta items such as earthen vases and terracotta versions of traditional vessels.The exhibition is a must-visit for people, who are collecting designer diyas or earthen lamps and other lighting materials this diwali.…
Odisha is a tourists’ paradise and has many stunning destinations which provide a visual feast to the tourists. It also throws an educative and culturally pleasant insight into one of the oldest civilisations of the world. Apart from the Hindu…
Durga Puja gives a boost to Odia literature every year and adds thousands of pages of printed words published in a month. When people celebrate Puja, it’s also time for publication and sale of the Puja numbers of the literary…
In the Silver City of Cuttack, Durga Puja is unique in more ways than one. While the neighbouring State of West Bengal hosts the autumn festival with theme-based pandals and idols, Odisha’s Millennium City of Cuttack decorates the Mother…
SHARADIYA ABHINANDAN. Abiding childhood Dassehra memories are of an unfailing trip to the famous Cuttack Chandi Mandir and Gada Chandi Mandir in Cuttack on the morning of Vijaya Dashami. My father who remains a stoic non-believer in anything in the…
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Come Durga Puja, there’s a flood of articles on the origin of the festival in the zamindari culture of Bengal, which sought to appease the East India Company in the 18th century. Not one has any reference to the…
Thanks to Sambit Nayak for these pictures.
