intresting facts about odisha

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10 Interesting Unknown Facts About Odisha
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1.First state formed on a linguistic basis

• Earlier than India done independence from British
  rule The call for for states on linguistic
  foundation turned into developed.
• In 1895, a first-of-its-type linguistic motion
  began out in Odisha.
• The motion were given intensified in later years
  with the call for for a separate Orissa by
  dividing the present Bihar and Orissa Province.
• Due to the efforts of Madhusudan Das, the Father
  of Oriya nationalism, the motion subsequently
  bore fruit in 1936.
• Orissa Province have become the primary Indian
  country (pre-independence) prepared on a
• linguistic foundation.

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2.Host to India Surf Festival

• India Surf Festival is Indias only beach based
  festival that brings together Art, Music and
  Ocean Adventure along the sunny beach stretch of
  Puri Konark Marine Drive
• India Surf Festival (ISF), Indias surfing event
  that had put the country on the global surf
  tourism map
• Odisha hosts India Surf Festival at Ramachandi
  Beach in Puri each year. It has big worldwide
  participation and an array of sports.
• It topics round religious thing via numerous
  sports like boardsport, yoga, track and dance.
• The festival, which had made its place in the
  sporting and cultural calendar of the country.

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3.Disappearing beach of Chandipur

• The Chandipur Beach of Balasore is famous as the
  cover and are trying to find beach as one of
  worlds most unusual beaches.
• The Chandipur coast has attained global
  popularity for its Vanishing Sea phenomenon.
• Here one can literally see the sea disappear
  (read recede) by almost 5 to 6 kilometres
  everyday during low tide and then comes back at
  high tide.
• This remarkable phenomenon is hardly ever visible
  everywhere else withinside the world.
• This is also a beautiful beach and missile launch
  site make for a unique combination.

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4.12 months and 13 festivals

• Odisha is one of the most beautiful states in
  India.
• The state celebrates some of the most interesting
  festivals like durga puja, Raja, makar
  sankranti, kumar purnima, Dola yatra, Gaja Laxmi
  puja, Gamha purnima etc.
• Bara masa re tera jatra(12 months and thirteen
  fairs) isnt always simply some other announcing
  in Odia.
• It basically method that there are greater
  festivities withinside the nation than there are
  months withinside the year.
• These fairs revolve across the nation, Lord
  Jagannath and his various leelas.
• Each of those fairs has plenty of importance in
  Odia way of life and lifestyle.

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5.Indias most advanced missile testing site

• ITR the Abdul Kalam Island, formerly referred to
  as Wheeler Island become granted for missile
  checking out in 1993 with the aid of using Biju
  Patnaik on request of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam
  himself.
• It began with checking out of the Prithvi Missile
  in an Wheeler island in November 1993.
• Since then, the missiles Akash, Agni, Astra,
  BrahMos, Nirbhay, Prahaar, Prithvi, Shaurya,
  Advanced Air Defence and Prithvi Air Defence
  examined ever since.
• ITR is also know as own area 51 of India.

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6.The Only Leaning Temple

• The lean temple Located in Huma on the bank of
  Mahanadi, this temple is devoted to the Hindu
  God, Lord Shiva (worshipped as Bimaleshwar).
• However, the lean of the temple has now no longer
  been measured but at any time.
• Shivratri is one of the major festivals that are
  celebrated in the temple.
• An annual fair held at the temple during
  Shivratri and huge locals and tourists that
  include foreign visitors have been attending the
  fair.
• The Government of Odisha has also built a hanging
  bridge across the river to attract tourists
• to the fair.

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7.Mahaprasad(Chapan Bhog) of Jagannath Temple

• One of the traditional and Popular Delicacies of
  Orissa is the Mahaprasad (Avada)- the holy food
  served to Lord Jagannath as bhog. This is mostly
  available at the Anand Bazar near the Jagannath
  Temple.
• Mahaprasad, the devotional meals-services to Lord
  Jagannath, cooked in the most important
  functioning kitchen in the temple premises of the
  Puri Jagannath Temple and sufficient to feed
  lakhs of devotees each day.
• Interestingly 7 pots kept one over any other
  however the meals withinside the topmost pot
  cooked earlier than the decrease ones.
• The kitchen of the temple is the largest in the
  world where ten thousand mouths eat every day.
• Such arrangement is also available in temples
  like Lingaraj Anantavasudev at
• Bhubaneswar and many other places

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8.Gahirmatha Beach, worlds largest known rookery
of Olive Ridley sea turtle

• Gahirmatha located in Orissas Kendrapara
  District.
• The Gahirmatha Turtle Sanctuary provides a great
  combination of flora and fauna.
• Odisha is the largest ground for olive ridley sea
  turtle in the world that migrate from srilanka
  to Odisha gahiramatha.
• It is the biggest breeding home of the sea
  turtles.
• The entrance of the River Dhamra is truly the
  breeding place of the Olive Ridley sea turtles.
  It has been confirmed as a world heritage site.

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9.The Konark Temple

• Konark Temple known as the Black Pagoda.
• The Sun Temple constructed in thirteenth century
  by king Narasimhadeva.
• This temple designed with 7 horses 12 pairs of
  wheels sporting the Sun God.
• Besides the magnificent Sun Temple, Konark is
  also famous for Konark Dance Festival.
• This five day long cultural program is one of the
  most famous classical dance festivals of India
  which attracts tourists from all over the world.
• Konark Tourism presents a multitude of
  attractions that fascinate tourists from all over
  the
• world.
• Konark Beach, Ramachandi Temple, Kuruma, Astranga
  Beach, Varahi Devi Temple at Chaurasi and Maa
  Mangala Devi Temple at Kakatapur are some popular
  places to visit in
• Konark apart from Sun Temple.
• Konark was also one of the few places in India to
  experience a total solar eclipse.

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10.Dhanu jatra, worlds largest open air theater

• Dhanu Jatra is the annual drama-based open-air
  theatrical performance celebrated in and around
  Bargarh city.
• The Dhanu Jatra is famous withinside the small
  city Bargarh is the time of joyful celebration
  while the whole city becomes Mathura Empire.
• It is eleventh day long jatra is based on the
  mythological story of lord krishna and his demon
• uncle king kansa.
• Over 70 artist performed in this jatra and
  another 45 artist acted in different role of
  gopapura.
• It is the worlds largest open-air theatrical
  festival that mention in the Guinness Book of
  World Records