Forced to migrate due to poverty and recurrent droughts, and with no better life in faraway brick kilns, farmers in western Odisha have turned to watermelon cultivation, reaping rich benefits.
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Jitendra Mishra on jury for Spain educational cinema fest
New Delhi , Feb 4 (Odisha.in) Film maker and promoter Jitendra Mishra has been invited as Jury for the MICE – ‘ Mostra International Cinema Education’ film festival in Valencia, Spain, going to be held this month from 10 – 24 February 2018. This festival is considered to be the most important International Festival of […]
Documentaries on four Odisha personalities coming soon
New Delhi, Jan 15 (Odisha.in) Well-known film-maker Nilamadhab Panda and Akshay Kumar Parija have joined hands to make four documentaries on the works of four great Odisha personalities. They will be released on next April 1, the day Odisha celebrates as Utkal Divas in the memory of the formation of the state as a separate […]
Sudarsan creates image of Obama on Puri beach
Bhubaneswar, Nov 7 (Odisha.in) Internationally acclaimed sand artist Sand Sudarsan Pattnaik on Wednesday created on the beach of his home town Puri in Odisha a seven ft high image of Barack Obama who was elected as president of United States for second term. The sculpture which he created along with the students of his golden […]
Sand artist Sudarsan to highlight Indian cinema in Moscow
Bhubaneswar, April 16 (Odisha.in) -Internationally acclaimed sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik Friday said he will carve on sand an image related to Indian cinema at Moscow later this month. Pattnaik said he has planned to create a 2.5 meter high image at the second Moscow world sand sculpture championship 2010 to be held from 28th April […]