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The Chariot of Jagannath: Auroville in the making

The three colorful chariots that carry the idol of Jagannatha, his sister Subhadra and his brother Balabhadra, at the Ratha Yatra festival, Puri

As a child, growing up in a Hindu household in Odisha, I was always intrigued by the images of Lord Jagannath and his siblings. Like most Hindu households, an entire room was reserved for the gods, and the main icons from Hinduism’s rich pantheon of reportedly 330 million gods were prominently displayed and revered.



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