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Soumyaranjan Sahoo

Belief Grows Through Repetition, Not Only Roots

Pierre Bourdieu's habitus explains how dispositions internalise through exposure, a process the essay extends into mediated circulation: familiarity supports acceptance, and narratives that travel widely acquire the weight of truth. Rural Odisha...

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Chautisa: A Poetic Form That Teaches Letters and Mortality Together

The chautisa, a thirty-four-stanza structure keyed to the Odia alphabet, fuses literacy instruction with philosophical instruction on impermanence. A child taught to read through such verse absorbs, in the same breath, a...

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How does the Bhubaneswar Development Authority's master planning intersect with heritage conservation mandates?

Belief Grows Through Repetition, Not Only Roots

Chautisa: A Poetic Form That Teaches Letters and Mortality Together

A Chronicle of Revolt: Mapping Independent India's Citizen Movements

What the Cultivated Imagination Stands to Lose

Outcomes Resist a Single Verdict

Why India Keeps Returning to Its Kings

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How does the Bhubaneswar Development Authority's master planning intersect with heritage conservation mandates?

Belief Grows Through Repetition, Not Only Roots

Chautisa: A Poetic Form That Teaches Letters and Mortality Together

A Chronicle of Revolt: Mapping Independent India's Citizen Movements

What the Cultivated Imagination Stands to Lose

Outcomes Resist a Single Verdict

Why India Keeps Returning to Its Kings