Soumyaranjan Sahoo
During Raja, the earth is imagined as a living, resting body, celebrated through ritual as feminine energy in seasonal transition. The essay reveals how agrarian societies encode ecological respect into cultural cycles, treating soil and womanhood as parallel registers of fertility, rest, and renewal across the agricultural calendar.
Soumyaranjan Sahoo
From coronation anniversaries to campaign rhetoric, historical monarchs resurface repeatedly across Indian political discourse. This essay traces that compulsive pattern, arguing that dead kings function less as historical subjects than as convenient mirrors, reflecting whatever legitimacy contemporary politics currently requires from a past it rarely examines closely.
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