![]() ![]() Occasionally these actors show an emotional mind, such as love, sadness, compassion, but in all these elements of excitement are always present. ![]() Their costumes are shiny and their swords produce glare and soon the struggle begins with their words. As a result, they speak in a very agitated style and their gesture is according to them. They give a speech in their loud voice and have to speak so fast that the audience sitting around them can hear their voice. Actors on stage are lyrical in theoretical form. There is no patchwork on this, there is only one place to sit, which acts as a throne in a variety of programs, a bed or a corner. The collective song singers and composers sit at their place on the stage. Consequently, he has become a polysemic symbol, open to multiple interpretations.Jatra is performed on a plain platform which has an audience around it. They argue that the Lord’s tribal origin, his association with Buddhism and Jainism, his present status as Vishnu’s avatar and “his multiplication through various media and new temples contribute to his democratisation as well as vernacularisation”. Moving away from the text-based research and scholarship, the book answers a significant question-what Jagannath means in everyday contexts, in contemporary and popular practices. Jyotirmaya Tripathy and Uwe Skoda have filled this intellectual lacuna to democratise Jagannath scholarship. The little critical material produced in English lacks an engagement with Jagannath in popular spaces. With the rise of the Odia diaspora, the Lord has been transformed from a regional god into a pan-Indian religious symbol.Īlthough there is no dearth of religious and mythological literature on Jagannath, they are mostly in the Odia language. In recent times, Jagannath has travelled as a cultural symbol beyond Odisha and several temples have come up in Delhi, Chennai, Agartala, Patna, and other places. It made me more curious about Odia cuisines, the sociocultural life of Odisha, the Odia diaspora, and above all, Lord Jagannath, who has played an instrumental role in constituting a distinctive Odia identity. The temple prasad, which comprised dalma, rice, saag and kheer, reinvigorated us. My association with Jagannath goes back to my student days at the University of Delhi when, upon getting tired of hostel food, I often accompanied my friends to Jagannath temples located at Hauz Khas and Thyagraj Nagar in Delhi. ![]()
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