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The Monsoon Edition of Paricharchā opens with a question native to Odisha's own weather: what accounts for the rain's double character, its gift of relief and its record of ruin, its floods and its festivals arriving within the same season? Around that question, the publication assembles a set of essays given to the proposition that heritage lives in practice rather than in storage, carried forward through taste, ritual, craft, and memory across every season rather than confined to any single one. The pages that follow travel across several forms this living inheritance takes. Royal palaces are traced through their second lives as sites of tourism. Pilgrimage routes long left unwalked are recovered through research and reflection. The artisans who raise the Ratha Jatra chariots each year receive sustained attention, as do the food traditions that have carried through generations of Odia households. The monsoon itself becomes a subject in its own right, considered as the force that once linked ancient Kalinga to distant shores and continues to shape festival calendars and collective memory today. A central essay turns to Odia cinema and asks what becomes of a culture when it ceases to recognise itself on screen, tracing the renewed appetite for stories set in familiar places and ordinary lives. That same appetite runs through the edition as a whole: an invitation to look again at what belongs to Odisha, guided by the conviction that heritage is not only what gets inherited but also what a people choose to remember, question, and carry forward.
