Sarala Das’s 15th-century Odia Mahabharata provides an alternative reading of Vyasa’s canonical text with many surprise elements In Sarala Das’s Odia version of the Mahabharata, which is the first complete rendition of the epic by a single author in any…
The Ramayana Circuit: All you need to know, do you know which place of Odisha chosen in it?
The Ramayana Circuit is one among the 13 tourist circuits under the Swadesh Darshan scheme. A committee under the Ministry of Tourism jotted down 15 destinations in the Ramayana Circuit in an effort to promote religious tourism. The destinations are…
Narasinghpur in Jajpur district : Odisha village that makes clothes fit for ‘kings’
The tiny village of Narasinghpur in Jajpur district is where all royal jatra costumes are born. Mythological and historical plays across Odisha countryside have various protagonists and themes. However, all are bound by a common thread — the skilled hands…