Art & Culture

Kankana Sikhari: The Sacred Refuge of Lord Jagannath in Times of Invasion

May 29, 2026

Odisha’s Primitive Tribal Groups: A Demographic Profile of Inequality, Volatility and Uneven Development

April 29, 2026

The demographic profile of Primitive Tribal Groups (PTGs) also known as Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG) in Odisha between 1961 and 2011 reflects a...

No Castes in Mauryan Era Before Caste Hardened From Fluid Identities to Fixed Hierarchies

April 28, 2026

Ashoka's edicts (c. 250 BCE) make no mention of Brahmins as we know them today. When he uses terms like "Brahmana-Shramana," he refers to...

Odisha’s Tribal Demography: Dominance, Disparity and Changing Trends

April 28, 2026

Odisha is home to one of India’s richest and most diverse tribal landscapes, with 62 Scheduled Tribes forming a complex social and demographic mosaic....

Religious Demography in Odisha & India: A Five Decade Statistical Perspective (1961-2011)

April 26, 2026

India’s demographic landscape is distinguished by its religious diversity, systematically documented through decennial censuses. Religion, as a core socio-cultural attribute, has been consistently recorded...

Tribal Identity and The 1951 Census in Odisha

April 23, 2026

India’s tribal communities is not merely a sociological category; it is a long historical narrative shaped by language, geography, governance and identity. Today, the...

The Killing of Abhimanyu — A Timeless Lesson

April 22, 2026

I grew up listening to the stories of the Mahabharata from my mother, who read aloud daily from Kashiram Das’s Bengali rendition with unwavering...

The Brave Mariners of Kalinga

April 21, 2026

Much before Portuguese or the British East India Company transformed the Indian Ocean into a colonial highway through movement of goods in ships, the...

Sri Chaitanya in the Rhythms of Life in Odisha

April 18, 2026

Bhakti in Odisha is not an abstract idea but a lived experience shaped by generations. I grew up in a rural setting where the...

Worship of Goddess Sitala in India

April 17, 2026

In the heart of my ancestral village stands a small temple dedicated to Maa Sitala. Though no documented record exists regarding the origin of...

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