Odisha Tourism hosts a chain of hotels called "Pantha Nivas" or "Yatri Nivas" across many of the tourist destinations in Odisha.
The hotels generally have very good staff & the food is generally yummy!! Infrastructure wise they vary, however the location is always Super :)
Modes of Booking -
1. Online Booking - http://www.visitodisha.org/
Need to book 3 days in advance. So if I am booking for Saturday, Need to book by Wednesday.
Checkin & Checkout time is around 12 PM.
2. Phone Booking - Call, Block & Pay. 0674 – 2430764
You can call and block the seats in any of the hotels & pay on the same day at any of the Panthanivas office counters.
3. Office Booking - You can drop by at any of the Panthanivas offices & book.
Central Reservation Counter -- Panthnivas (old block), Lewis Road, Bhubaneswar – 751014,Telelphone # 0674 – 2430764
Detailed list here.
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Konark Dance & Sand Art Festival, Odisha
This time of the year draws curtain from various Dance and Art festivals in Konark.
The Konark Dance Festival organised by the Odisha Tourism department hosts a range of Classical Odissi, Bharathnatyam, Manipuri, Kathak and Chau dance performances.
Date - 1 to 5 December 2015
Time - 6.00 P.M. to 8.30 P.M
Venue - Open air auditorium, Natyamandir, near the Konark Temple.
Live Telecast - DD Bharati
Live Streaming - www.webcast.gov.in during the festival period from 6pm to 8.30pm.
Festival Details - http://www.odishatourism.gov.in/Festivals/SpecialFestivals/KonarkFestival.aspx
OTDC Package Details - Click here
Program Details -
01-Dec-15 Odissi Srijan, Sri Ratikant Mohapatra Bhubaneswar
Tuesday Manipuri Jawaharlal Nehru Manipur Dance Academy Manipur
02-Dec-15 Sattriya Sattriya Academy - Sri Jatin Goswami & Group Assam
Wednesday Odissi Aum Arts Dance Academy, Suprava Mishra & Group Ahmedabad
03-Dec-15 Odissi GKCM Odissi Research Center Bhubaneswar
Thursday Kuchipudi Shambhavi Dance Ensemble, Smt Vyjayanthi Kashi Bengaluru
04-Dec-15 Bharatnatyam Kalakshetra Foundation, Priyadarshini Govind Chennai
Friday Odissi Odissi Nrutya Mandal, Sri Ashis Kumar Das & Group Cuttack
05-Dec-15 Odissi Odisha Dance Academy, Smt Aruna Mohanty Bhubaneswar
Saturday Kathak Lashya Academy Dance Repertory, Guru Rajashree Shirke Mumbai
Image - Odisha Tourism
International Sand Art Festival
It is held to coincide with the five day Konark Festival.
Date - 1 to 5 December 2015
Time - 6.00 A.M. to 6.00 P.M
Venue - Chandrabhaga Beach, Konark.
The Konark Dance Festival organised by the Odisha Tourism department hosts a range of Classical Odissi, Bharathnatyam, Manipuri, Kathak and Chau dance performances.
Date - 1 to 5 December 2015
Time - 6.00 P.M. to 8.30 P.M
Venue - Open air auditorium, Natyamandir, near the Konark Temple.
Live Telecast - DD Bharati
Live Streaming - www.webcast.gov.in during the festival period from 6pm to 8.30pm.
Festival Details - http://www.odishatourism.gov.in/Festivals/SpecialFestivals/KonarkFestival.aspx
OTDC Package Details - Click here
Program Details -
01-Dec-15 Odissi Srijan, Sri Ratikant Mohapatra Bhubaneswar
Tuesday Manipuri Jawaharlal Nehru Manipur Dance Academy Manipur
02-Dec-15 Sattriya Sattriya Academy - Sri Jatin Goswami & Group Assam
Wednesday Odissi Aum Arts Dance Academy, Suprava Mishra & Group Ahmedabad
03-Dec-15 Odissi GKCM Odissi Research Center Bhubaneswar
Thursday Kuchipudi Shambhavi Dance Ensemble, Smt Vyjayanthi Kashi Bengaluru
04-Dec-15 Bharatnatyam Kalakshetra Foundation, Priyadarshini Govind Chennai
Friday Odissi Odissi Nrutya Mandal, Sri Ashis Kumar Das & Group Cuttack
05-Dec-15 Odissi Odisha Dance Academy, Smt Aruna Mohanty Bhubaneswar
Saturday Kathak Lashya Academy Dance Repertory, Guru Rajashree Shirke Mumbai
International Sand Art Festival
It is held to coincide with the five day Konark Festival.
Date - 1 to 5 December 2015
Time - 6.00 A.M. to 6.00 P.M
Venue - Chandrabhaga Beach, Konark.
Saturday, August 29, 2015
pinti-benguli-o-chadhei
ପିଣ୍ଟି, ବେଙ୍ଗୁଲି ଓ ଚଢ଼େଇ
So, was browsing through some of the famous local stores & online stores & couldnt find Odia story books for my 10-month old toddler. I mean English books are also fine, but my aim is to draw her interest towards reading without making any of our lives difficult (Be it the pain of translating it in the mind, or the pain of making the toddler understand a different language or the discomfort of my aunties/ Grandma - Aaee in reading the English text out loud to the Baby with whom they have been conversing in Odia).
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
A Day in Remote Rayagada - II
Continued From .... A Day in Remote Rayagada
So as we enter the training room, I realise its as good as any conference halls from the finest of cities! There are around 23 trainers who have come for this session. They have traveled from their (tribal dominated) villages, where they are presently conducting classes of ALP (Adult Literacy), thanks to Sparsh. So my work? To train the trainer - TOT. To make them comfortable with the TCS built software, which can make their lives easier along with making learning more structured, fun for the villagers and of course to introduce computers.
TCS has donated 10 computers after a long approval process and now the software and the training is a part of its own CSR :-). All thanks to the efforts of our CSR coordinator, Priya Mahapatra. As I start interacting with these trainers, their Simplicity & Innocence hits me. They are so soft spoken I cant hear them standing just next to them with my ears stretched! One moment I feel the despair, how am I going to finish the session and come out satisfied if I don't get any interaction? How would I know if the purpose was fulfilled? Will they be able to go back and use the computer software and teach?
Anyways giving up doesn't come that easily to me ;) . For the next 1 hour I keep shouting my lungs out, poking everyone, madly reaching out to each individual throughout the room! There are a few supervisors and officials from Sparsh who poke them along with me. That helps as well, as these girls are more familiar with them.
Going by the instinct, I call them up and ask them to help me with the software. Towards lunch time I get smiles, replies, reactions!! Now that the comfort level has been established, we have to rise to a new level!
I realise the trainers haven't operated a computer before and are getting confused with the mouse! I pass the mouse across to let them have a look and check the left and right clicks. Little patience and time works like magic :-). Some of them go pro with it exploring and helping others!!
The training goes down very nicely, much better than the expectations I had after entering the room :-). We have a small photo session outside the conference hall in our tea time. There are about 5 supervisors with us, I basically focus on for explaining the Reporting part! Although others are still there, I find it hard to expect them to learn mouse clicks & excel sheets the same day :-)
Eventful day almost closes with formal greetings, just the way it had started! We go back to Mr Rajguru's office n are treated with another round of lemon tea :-)! Seriously, after having 3 rounds of lemon tea the entire day, I started to like it :D They even take us to their CEO, again a nice gesture and we get some unexpected gifts! :-)
Next we are permitted to go see the paper industry with a guide and helmets. And wow! Starting from logging to chips to pressure cooking to labs to humongous rollers to packaging to the multi floored storage. Just wow! Felt as if I am standing inside an episode of Mega Factories, Nat Geo!!
After an Awe-inspiring tour of the factory we started out to a nearby village, Amalapatta to see the present ALP center running there. It was a small place filled with enthusiastic people, running out of a Anganwadi center, 7 to 9pm. Mansi & Ninoshka mingled with the ladies there and brought out their hidden talents. In a few secs someone was singing, few others were drawing!! A lady with two naughty children very enthusiastically shows me what all she's learned in the last week.
We return back to our guest house. Situ is also done with her program n has reached there (I had already called her to come there on Mr Ashutosh's request). We have a heavy dinner, at least I have ;)
Then it's time to start back. Having said our goodbyes to Mr Ashutosh, thanking him again for the hospitality and promising to have another visit after few months, we take leave to catch our 10:30 pm train from Rayagada. On the way back I share the latest Rangabati song with our recently-converted Odia volunteers from SBI YFI before waving them goodbye. Its been more than 12 hours and we are totally spent. Situ & me, we share a few stories of the trip & Situ snores in no time :P
I lie down and start with this blog & doze off in the train.
So as we enter the training room, I realise its as good as any conference halls from the finest of cities! There are around 23 trainers who have come for this session. They have traveled from their (tribal dominated) villages, where they are presently conducting classes of ALP (Adult Literacy), thanks to Sparsh. So my work? To train the trainer - TOT. To make them comfortable with the TCS built software, which can make their lives easier along with making learning more structured, fun for the villagers and of course to introduce computers.
TCS has donated 10 computers after a long approval process and now the software and the training is a part of its own CSR :-). All thanks to the efforts of our CSR coordinator, Priya Mahapatra. As I start interacting with these trainers, their Simplicity & Innocence hits me. They are so soft spoken I cant hear them standing just next to them with my ears stretched! One moment I feel the despair, how am I going to finish the session and come out satisfied if I don't get any interaction? How would I know if the purpose was fulfilled? Will they be able to go back and use the computer software and teach?
Anyways giving up doesn't come that easily to me ;) . For the next 1 hour I keep shouting my lungs out, poking everyone, madly reaching out to each individual throughout the room! There are a few supervisors and officials from Sparsh who poke them along with me. That helps as well, as these girls are more familiar with them.
I realise the trainers haven't operated a computer before and are getting confused with the mouse! I pass the mouse across to let them have a look and check the left and right clicks. Little patience and time works like magic :-). Some of them go pro with it exploring and helping others!!
The training goes down very nicely, much better than the expectations I had after entering the room :-). We have a small photo session outside the conference hall in our tea time. There are about 5 supervisors with us, I basically focus on for explaining the Reporting part! Although others are still there, I find it hard to expect them to learn mouse clicks & excel sheets the same day :-)
Eventful day almost closes with formal greetings, just the way it had started! We go back to Mr Rajguru's office n are treated with another round of lemon tea :-)! Seriously, after having 3 rounds of lemon tea the entire day, I started to like it :D They even take us to their CEO, again a nice gesture and we get some unexpected gifts! :-)
Next we are permitted to go see the paper industry with a guide and helmets. And wow! Starting from logging to chips to pressure cooking to labs to humongous rollers to packaging to the multi floored storage. Just wow! Felt as if I am standing inside an episode of Mega Factories, Nat Geo!!
After an Awe-inspiring tour of the factory we started out to a nearby village, Amalapatta to see the present ALP center running there. It was a small place filled with enthusiastic people, running out of a Anganwadi center, 7 to 9pm. Mansi & Ninoshka mingled with the ladies there and brought out their hidden talents. In a few secs someone was singing, few others were drawing!! A lady with two naughty children very enthusiastically shows me what all she's learned in the last week.
We return back to our guest house. Situ is also done with her program n has reached there (I had already called her to come there on Mr Ashutosh's request). We have a heavy dinner, at least I have ;)Then it's time to start back. Having said our goodbyes to Mr Ashutosh, thanking him again for the hospitality and promising to have another visit after few months, we take leave to catch our 10:30 pm train from Rayagada. On the way back I share the latest Rangabati song with our recently-converted Odia volunteers from SBI YFI before waving them goodbye. Its been more than 12 hours and we are totally spent. Situ & me, we share a few stories of the trip & Situ snores in no time :P
I lie down and start with this blog & doze off in the train.
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