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Chaitali Shome, OP BHUBANESWAR: Life is a phase of non-stop collection for 80-year-old Akshay Kumar Patnaik, the owner of Odisha’s first engineering museum at Bolagarh. Patnaik was a diploma engineer in mechanical department of the state government in 1960. He had also worked at Rourkela Steel Plant...

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha Lalit Kala Akademi in association with Odisha Language, Literature and Culture department celebrated the 100 birth centenary of great painter and artist Muralidhar Tali at the State archives in Bhubaneswar, Monday.   Eminent artist and painter Baladev Prasad Maharatha, who was also the Chief...

BHUBANESWAR: The third edition of India International Dance Festival (IIDF) organised by Samskritki kicked off at Bhanja Kala Madap in Bhubaneswar, Sunday. More than 200 dancers will perform on various dance styles such as tribal, classical, martial and contemporary among others in the festival. Seventeen...

Bhubaneswar: Six contemporary women painters who participated in a week-long exhibition Odyssey at Rashtriya Lalit Kala Akademi in Bhubaneswar rocked the canvas with their amazing works. Binodini Behera, Madhusmita Dhal Samant, Swarnalata Satpathy, Suprava Choudhury, Jayashree Pradhan and Sushmita Sahoo interacted with Orissa POST about...

Bhubaneswar: With the end of Dussehra in the city, the Goddess Durga bid adieu to the city amid much fanfare as processions from several pandals Saturday thronged the immersion sites to immerse the idols of the goddess. Several devotees and organisers were Saturday seen taking...

BHUBANESWAR: Tenth day of the Hindu lunar month of Ashwin is celebrated as Vijaya Dashami or Dussehra. It marks the end of Maha Navratri or nine days which marks the descent of the nine incarnations of Goddess Durga. The day marks the celebration of goddess Durga’s triumph...

BHUBANESWAR: Award-winning Indian filmmaker, producer, film archivist and Film Heritage Foundation director Shivendra Singh Dungarpur was in the city Monday for his felicitation by state archives for his work on film preservation and restoration of India's cinematic heritage. On the occasion, he delivered a lecture...

BHUBANESWAR: ‘Dandiya’ or ‘Dandiya Raas’ is a dance rendered during Navratri, and has its origins in Gujarat. The dancers carry bamboo sticks painted in bright colours. Women are dressed in a three-piece dress called ‘chaniya choli’ with ‘bandhni dupattas’, while men wear sherwani. The dancers...

BHUBANESWAR: Good food, colourful clothes, music and dance are great stimulators for mind and body. The Garba dance which is the trademark ballet of navratri provides all the aforementioned aspects of enjoyment. In fact, this is one of the most popular forms of dance in...

BHUBANESWAR: Goddess Durga’s ninth incarnation of Siddhidatri is the epitome of completeness and prosperity. She is the suppressor of all demons and giver of desired goals to her devotees. Goddess Durga had killed all the demons between the first and ninth day of the Navratri...