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Odias In Kolkata Soak In Spirit Of Raas Purnima

The serene Jagannath Temple at Khidirpur or Kidderpore in Kolkata resounded with the chant of "Panchuka Purnanga Mangala Aarati" on Tuesday. Pandit Jayadev Dash Badapanda of the temple said, “Kartika is a holy month for us. We observe…

Shashi Tharoor Gets His Facts Wrong On Rath Yatra

Shashi Tharoor is a word juggler and more often than not has people scurrying for a dictionary. In his latest piece on Shashi Tharoor’s Word of the Week, he picked the word 'juggernaut', the Anglicized name for Jagannath. The article is an…