Bali Jatra

Cuttack: The historic Bali Jatra on the banks of the Mahandi in the Millennium City has been extended by a day. The mega open fair, which was inaugurated on Tuesday (November 12), will…

Kalinga was a maritime superpower. It means ancient Odias were proficient at ship-building and had sound knowledge of the seasonal winds. While contemporary and later-day literary accounts…

Rituals succeed where history fails. Bits of our past survives as collective memory through them. History looks for evidence, they don't. They deal with certainties etched into our communal…

What did the sadhavas carry in their magnificent boats? Historical evidence suggests the cargo consisted of ivory, textiles, precious stones, rice and betel nuts among other items. Elephants…

Kalinga war, which historians place around 261 BC, was Mauryan emperor Ashoka’s only major military offensive. The reason was not his desire to acquire the ravishing commoner Karuvaki as…

Ancient Odisha’s dominance of the sea was so overwhelming that that the Bay of Bengal came to be identified solely with Kalinga. Mahayana text Araya Manjusri Mulakalpa, believed to have been…

The boat drifts gently into water and struggles for balance as the feeble current underneath tries to lend it a sense of direction. The cargo on board rests pretty. The burning torch lights…

Bhubaneswar: A pictorial exhibition on Odishan cultural influence across South East Asia, covering Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand, is on at Lalit Kala Akademi here. The…

Cuttack: The historic Bali Jatra began on the bank of Mahanadi river in the Millennium City on Tuesday. The eight-day event was inaugurated by the Odisha Assembly speaker Surya Narayan…

Balasore: A 140 ft long boita (boat) was set afloat to the beats of drums and the sound of conch blowing loud at Manitri village in Balasore district to commemoration Odisha's maritime glory…