Anuradha Kumar was born, and spent her early childhood years, in Odisha. She has lived in various places in India before moving first to Singapore and then to the US, where she lives presently with her family. She loves history and writing about it, hoping to make everyone, especially children, love it as much if not more.
Drums, cymbals, trumpets… It is the festive day of the Ratha Jatra at Puri and Pria wonders why the idols of Jagannatha, Subhadra and Balabhadra are unlike other gods. That’s how Jagannatha looked when he lived deep in the forest, her grandmother tells her. And so starts a story of Nilamadhaba, the secret god of the Sabaras. Central to this is the dynamic...
