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Cuttack: The historic Bali Jatra on the banks of the Mahandi in the Millennium City has been extended by a...

Kalinga was a maritime superpower. It means ancient Odias were proficient at ship-building and had sound knowledge of the seasonal...

Rituals succeed where history fails. Bits of our past survives as collective memory through them. History looks for evidence, they...

What did the sadhavas carry in their magnificent boats? Historical evidence suggests the cargo consisted of ivory, textiles, precious stones, rice...

Kalinga war, which historians place around 261 BC, was Mauryan emperor Ashoka’s only major military offensive. The reason was not...

Ancient Odisha’s dominance of the sea was so overwhelming that that the Bay of Bengal came to be identified solely...

The boat drifts gently into water and struggles for balance as the feeble current underneath tries to lend it a...

Bhubaneswar: A pictorial exhibition on Odishan cultural influence across South East Asia, covering Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand, is on...

Cuttack: The historic Bali Jatra began on the bank of Mahanadi river in the Millennium City on Tuesday. The eight-day...

Balasore: A 140 ft long boita (boat) was set afloat to the beats of drums and the sound of conch...