English Beyond Pattachitra and Talapatra Chitra, Here’s a Lesser Known Leaf Craft of Odisha Weaving palm leaves together to make decoration pieces, and weaving traditional headgears with siali leaves are the ancient crafts of...
English You May Soon Bite into Snacks and Cookies Made Out of Wild Yams A research project in Odisha is working on the possibility of promoting wild yams commercially. These tubers grow in abundance...
English From practising javelin throws using bamboo sticks to winning silver at Asian Games, Odisha’s Kishore Kumar Jena has come a long way Kishore Kumar Jena, from a village in Odisha, started off as a volleyball player, but stands tall today as he...
English Odisha: A dedicated rural nurse from Puri has saved the lives of several pregnant women and their newborns Between August 2022 and May 2023, Manjulata Maharana, an Auxiliary Nurse and Midwife (ANM), successfully assisted 105 women in Puri...
English An LIC employee in Odisha and a prolific writer keeps a tribal language alive Biswanath Tudu’s work has helped promote the Ol Chiki script of the Santali language. In 2010 when Biswanath Tudu got...
English Move over motichoor and boondi laddu, here comes the power packed mahua laddu Women from the Kondh tribal community in Kandhamal, Odisha have been trained to make laddus from the mahua flowers that...
English A Gond tribe teenager packs a punch to become a national champ in Thai Boxing A 13-year-old girl from a tribal community in Odisha kicks and punches her way to gold and silver medals at...
English Shortly after the Puri Rath Yatra, another village in Odisha celebrates its own unique version The renowned rath yatra in Odisha takes on special significance in Remanda village in Jharsuguda, where it starts three days...
English A traditional Odia millet dish Atkel is helping fight infant and maternal mortality in Kalahandi Kalalandi was once known as the land of starvation deaths. For the past couple of years, UNICEF, along with a...
