The origin of the Goddess Biraja, though obscure, the halo of myths, the primitives archetype of human history springing from collective consciousness through ages, surrounds it and is transmitted to the generation down from the pre-Christian era. The different appellations…
Sarala Das’s 15th-century Odia Mahabharata provides an alternative reading of Vyasa’s canonical text with many surprise elements In Sarala Das’s Odia version of the Mahabharata, which is the first complete rendition of the epic by a single author in any…
Railway came to existence in Odisha on 1893, with construction of Kharagpur-Cuttack- Khurda Road-Puri Line( controlled by Bengal Nagpur Railway).Subsequent link up along the east coast up to Vijayawada (Junction of Southern Maratha Railway and Nizam’s state Railway), happened…
It’s pre-dawn hour and at Buxi Bazaar, Cuttack, is alive with customers. It isn’t quite often that you meet someone who’s a chai waala in the mornings, and a social activist and a teacher by the day. Meet D. Prakash…
Dr Prakash Patnaik, an alumni of NIT Rourkela, has been conferred with the prestigious NATO Science & Technology Organisation (STO)’s Panel Excellence Award, reports India Today. He has been awarded in recognition of his longstanding service and extraordinary scientific contribution rendered to…
Sanjeeb Sahoo, a scientist in the central government run Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) Bhubaneswar, has been figured in the list of ‘influential’ researchers of the world. Only 10 scientists including Sahoo from India got entry into the list of…
If you would have seen Rohit Shetty’s latest blockbuster Simmba, you might have marked the role of Cuttack girl Supriya Roy who plays the leading lady Sara Ali Khan’s friend in the movie. Supriya Roy essays the role of a…
Bishnu Bhagat, 36, dresses himself in colourful polythene bags and goes about his business every day in Odisha. He doesn’t mind being referred as a “chalta firta dustbin” (walking dustbin), because the underlying message he wants to convey is, “If I…
Sushrii Shreya Mishra of Odisha, who is a model and has represented India at several beauty pageants, is debuting in Bollywood with Aanand L Rai’s Zero, which features SRK, Anushka Sharma and Katrina Kaif in the leading roles. The film…
On 29th October, 1999 the Odisha Super Cyclone struck Odisha causing large scale devastation killing around 50000 people. There are many stories of destruction, grief, struggle and survival in this period of devastation. “Hausla Na Ruthe : The…