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Who Are We When We Are Not Performing Online?
On the Fragmentation of the Self Across Platforms, the Erosion of the Back Stage, and the Question of Identity in the Age of Managed Visibility
Jun 7
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Soumyaranjan Sahoo
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The Dead King Problem: On India's Compulsive Return to Its Historical Dead
The dead kings can inspire. They cannot govern. That remains, as it has always been, the irreducible responsibility of the living...
Jun 3
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Soumyaranjan Sahoo
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Before the Rain Comes
A Letter to the Reader in you on Slowing Down, Sitting Still, and Reading Again!
May 29
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Soumyaranjan Sahoo
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The Super El Niño of 2026: The Cultural and Anthropological Conversation That We Must Have Now
In May 2026, the World Meteorological Organisation confirmed what climate scientists had been tracking with growing alarm for months.
May 23
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Soumyaranjan Sahoo
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What Do You Dream When the World Goes Silent?
On visual overconsumption, AI-generated imagery, the death of inner picturing, and what happens to the dreaming mind when it has been fed another…
May 18
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Soumyaranjan Sahoo
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Where Do We Go When the World Weakens?
A study of how weakening communities reshape the inner life of individuals, turning home, love, and kinship into fragile spaces of refuge from an…
May 16
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Soumyaranjan Sahoo
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Open Call for Art Submissions: Royal Heritage of Odisha & Jagannath Culture
Paricharchā invites original artwork submissions inspired by Odisha’s royal memory, Jagannath traditions, sacred landscapes, temple culture, and living…
May 15
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ParibhaAsha HeritEdge Lab
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Soumyaranjan Sahoo
5 Reasons to Become a Paricharchā Patron | Support Odisha’s Cultural Publication
Become a Paricharchā Patron and support Odisha’s dedicated cultural writing, heritage discourse, and quarterly print publication. Join the Founding 500…
May 12
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Soumyaranjan Sahoo
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ParibhaAsha HeritEdge Lab
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Neha Jha
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Understanding Literature as the First Step of Democracy
Understanding literature as the first step of democracy involves recognising its capacity to cultivate engagement with plurality.
Apr 27
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ParibhaAsha HeritEdge Lab
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The Goddess Who Didn't Exist: Why & How the Missing Character Became the Whole Story
In the expansive landscape of South Asian mythos, the figure of Radha presents a fascinating anthropological paradox with her conspicuous absence in the…
Apr 24
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Soumyaranjan Sahoo
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Performing Culture, Producing Belief - Rethinking Odia Identity in an Age of Narration
Culture today exists simultaneously as lived practice and articulated narrative. Belief exists simultaneously as an inherited disposition and a…
Apr 22
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Soumyaranjan Sahoo
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Ranga Utsav 2026: Three Evenings, Three Thresholds
Three plays that move from the mind’s justifications to the weight of their consequences. Ranga Utsav unfolds as a progression of thought, encounter …
Apr 21
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ParibhaAsha HeritEdge Lab
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