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From Peeping Through Windows to Dating in Parks: Changing Cultures of Love Across Generations

May 29, 2026

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...

Madhusudan Das: The Architect of Modern Odisha’s Awakening

April 28, 2026

In the long and difficult journey of Odisha from colonial neglect to modern identity, few figures loom as large as Madhusudan Das. Revered as...

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...

The dangerous comfort of ‘our truth’

April 25, 2026

Parents often worry about what their children are watching. Few pause to ask what their children are learning from what they watch. Today, the...

Odisha’s Climate Warning: When Variability becomes the New Normal

April 24, 2026

Historically, coastal Odisha has long lived with the fury of nature. Cyclones sweep in from the Bay of Bengal, rivers swell into floods, and...

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...

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