ORISSA THROUGH AN EYELET

Orissa a land of hoary antiquities and exquisite natural beauties carries in its lap a celestial gay abandon any for everyone that steps on its soil. Its unity in diversity. A state with an old legacy, a glorious heritage, and a rich past. A culture that has been ,and is trying to take the entire humanity in its embrace symbolized by the suggestive gesture of lord Jagannath and the color code of the two brothers and the sister who represented the entire humanity. Their white black and yellow.  With its rich flora and fauna rare else where and still rarer spices, jungles with thick foliage housing myriads of singing and dancing birds, playful animals in their natural abode, high rising mountains, long deep gorges, extensive sheets of greeneries of the country side , sprawling palm , casuarinas , and coconut fringed beaches with golden sands and of course the sea with usual foam froth and fury is a veritable haven for holidayers , site seers , adventure seekers, and non the less the pilgrims . Besides thousands of temples dating back to sixth century AD and meticulously arranged in chronological details up to 12 century AD speaks up and architecture of a class, magnum opus of super craftsmanship where a every stone is a great manuscript of a great legend or epoch and every temple a poetry in stones. It has lakes as big as gulfs dotted with splendid mountain clad islands sheltering millions of birds both permanent and migratory Orissa offers a recipe for every tourist. Its handlooms and handicrafts , its stone carvings and horn works its filigree all singularly or in combination speak volumes about the legacy and the ingenious innovation of finesse and super craftsmanship. Orissa not only can paint the huge of rainbow in the life of every tourist that visits it and fill it with the sublime virtues of a higher ecstasy a spiritual order that elevates in to a mindless state, where the individual entity terms non existent to give birth to an universal entity . Orissa probably is the lone location which offers a gate way to heaven (the Swargadwara) .