Sarnath had been on the tentative list for twenty-seven long years. The wheels of fortune changed its fate in July.

A documented and anthropological account of the Republic's confrontations with its own authority, tracing what recurs, what is contested, and what is won or lost.

The Ratha Jatra asks little of doctrine and much of participation. What persists across all twelve days is a form of faith that operates independent of institutional definition.

Discussing a form of composition where the act of learning to read and the act of preparing to die occupy the same verse...

The Odisha DCM announced a Lakshmi Purana Corridor at the birthplace of the 16th century poet Balaram Dasa, at an estimated cost of ₹28 Cr rupees with a promise to distribute 1 Cr Laxmi Purana books.

Inside the fortnight every year when Jagannatha goes dark, a tribal-descended priesthood, a closed sickroom and the limits of what a billion-rupee pilgrimage economy is willing to show...

To write of him is to write of the hinge on which medieval Odisha turned from a contracting Ganga inheritance into an imperial formation that reached from the lower Ganga to the waters of the Kaveri!

This is an attempt at what Raja itself performs: a seasonal reckoning, a time set apart, in which we return to the ground to understand what it has given us.

On the Fragmentation of the Self Across Platforms, the Erosion of the Back Stage, and the Question of Identity in the Age of Managed Visibility

The dead kings can inspire. They cannot govern. That remains, as it has always been, the irreducible responsibility of the living...

Beneath the expanding city of Bhubaneswar lies Sisupalgarh, one of eastern India’s most significant early urban settlements. Its ramparts, gateways, streets, & buried civic order ask us to rethink...

In May 2026, the World Meteorological Organisation confirmed what climate scientists had been tracking with growing alarm for months.

On visual overconsumption, AI-generated imagery, the death of inner picturing, and what happens to the dreaming mind when it has been fed another person's imagination for long enough.

A study of how weakening communities reshape the inner life of individuals, turning home, love, and kinship into fragile spaces of refuge from an anthropological lens.

Understanding literature as the first step of democracy involves recognising its capacity to cultivate engagement with plurality.

Culture today exists simultaneously as lived practice and articulated narrative. Belief exists simultaneously as an inherited disposition and a constructed understanding.

Professor Hermann Kulke, the German historian whose scholarship fundamentally reshaped the academic understanding of Odisha’s past, passed away at the age of eighty-seven. For more than four decades, Kulke dedicated his intellectual life to studying the historical processes that shaped Odisha’s society, religion, and political traditions.

The Union Budget and the Odisha Budget offer an opportunity to examine how cultural policy is evolving in India. By comparing these budgets with international models of cultural governance, it becomes possible to assess both their achievements and their limitations.

While the expansion of heritage walks represents an encouraging development, it also brings certain challenges. One of the most common tendencies in public heritage storytelling is the romanticisation of history. Cultural landscapes are often narrated through emotionally powerful stories that emphasise glory, devotion, or civilisational pride. Such narratives are attractive and easy to communicate, particularly in informal public settings where audiences expect engaging story

When the Padma Shri honours are announced each year, they often reveal an unheard story of India—one that unfolds far from metropolitan stages and headline-driven achievements.