Not of India’s north, not of its south, not lurchingly eastward enough, Odisha does not lie at the end of a directional arrow. It cannot be geographically ‘fixed’. It is a place in itself, historically at rest with its legacy, culturally poised in its dower, aesthetically filled to the brim of its huge talents. It does not claim to culturally or aesthetically ‘complete’. Who or what can? But Odisha is, quite exceptionally, replete. Name a faculty, a dimension, a department of human endeavour and accomplishment and you are bound to find it in this province of three names — Odisha, the politico-official, Utkal, the socio-cultural, and Kalinga, the...
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