jagannath

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…

New Delhi: Come December, devotees of Lord Jagannath from across the globe will come to the city for a six-day international festival.  The first of its kind ‘Shree Jagannath Mahotsav’ will be held at Markandeya Bhavan in Chattarpur, Delhi…

The greeting of Odias should be Aum Jagannath in place of Jai Jagannath. Recently, I was giving a talk in Delhi where I mooted AUM and it was well taken. Jagannath is the Lord of the cosmos and MahaVishnu. One interpretation of MahaVishnu…

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…

Berhampur: After Rubelal Pradhan of Angul made an attempt with enter the Limca Book of Records with 3.5-inch 'Nandighosha', another artist has come up with an even smaller version of the chariot of Lord Jagannath. Satya Maharana of…