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Soumyaranjan Sahoo
Expenditure records from the Odisha Tourism Development Corporation showed the government's Pakhala Dibasa celebration cost roughly two crore thirty-two lakh rupees, with thirty-one lakh rupees spent merely to secure a Guinness World...
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Soumyaranjan Sahoo
The myth of devotees perishing beneath the chariot wheels traces to Odoric of Pordenone's fourteenth-century account, later amplified by chaplain Claudius Buchanan to argue for Christian missions. Anthropologist Verrier Elwin found no...
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