As part of Ekamra Anubhav 2.0, participants will have the opportunity to engage with the art of palm leaf etching (Talapatra Chitra) through a hands-on interaction. Know more about the event...

You may have come across our recent announcement introducing Ekamra Anubhav 2.0 . The response to that post has already brought up a few immediate questions—why “2.0”, whether there was an earlier version, and what exactly has changed. The announcement itself was simple. Heritage walks, over the past few years, have become an important way for people to reconnect with historic places, and their growing presence across cities reflects a welcome shift in public engagement with

In 'Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks,' Schopen argues that late Buddhist monasteries functioned as “corporate ritual institutions concerned with initiation, property, and lineage transmission".......

Which languages receive the conditions to survive as living, future-facing tools and which are pushed into the museum of nostalgia?

Across Odisha, Shiva appears in multiple forms: as ascetic and householder, as linga and anthropomorphic icon, as guardian of cities and dweller of forests, as royal deity and village god.

Curated by Sibdas Sengupta, the exhibition resists the logic of a conventional retrospective. Instead, it operates as a living archive, a constellation of images, materials, gestures, and memories...

Buddhist learning unfolded through cities, campuses, monasteries, and landscapes, adapting to local conditions while remaining connected through transregional networks.

The association of Pushpagiri with the clustered monastic landscape of Lalitgiri, Ratnagiri, and Udayagiri reshapes regional and national narratives of Buddhist education.

The entry of Buddhist Odisha into modern historical consciousness begins with colonial archaeology. Early British surveys noted mounds and scattered sculptures, but often misidentified them as Jain.

Culture is increasingly framed as knowledge that must be documented, interpreted, and institutionalised within digital, educational, and tourism systems.