The dead kings can inspire. They cannot govern. That remains, as it has always been, the irreducible responsibility of the living...

Beneath the expanding city of Bhubaneswar lies Sisupalgarh, one of eastern India’s most significant early urban settlements. Its ramparts, gateways, streets, & buried civic order ask us to rethink...

In May 2026, the World Meteorological Organisation confirmed what climate scientists had been tracking with growing alarm for months.

On visual overconsumption, AI-generated imagery, the death of inner picturing, and what happens to the dreaming mind when it has been fed another person's imagination for long enough.

A study of how weakening communities reshape the inner life of individuals, turning home, love, and kinship into fragile spaces of refuge from an anthropological lens.

Understanding literature as the first step of democracy involves recognising its capacity to cultivate engagement with plurality.

Culture today exists simultaneously as lived practice and articulated narrative. Belief exists simultaneously as an inherited disposition and a constructed understanding.

Professor Hermann Kulke, the German historian whose scholarship fundamentally reshaped the academic understanding of Odisha’s past, passed away at the age of eighty-seven. For more than four decades, Kulke dedicated his intellectual life to studying the historical processes that shaped Odisha’s society, religion, and political traditions.

The Union Budget and the Odisha Budget offer an opportunity to examine how cultural policy is evolving in India. By comparing these budgets with international models of cultural governance, it becomes possible to assess both their achievements and their limitations.