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The Odisha authorities plans to reconstruct ‘Pather Puri’, the residence of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore successful Puri, and make it into a museum. The determination was taken astatine a high-level gathering chaired by State Culture Minister Suryabanshi Suraj connected Wednesday (October 8, 2025).
The location stands adjacent the seashore connected a crippled primitively allotted to the writer earlier India’s independence. It was aboriginal built connected by the Tagore family. In consequent years, the spot served arsenic a boys’ hostel for students of the Samanta Chandra Sekhar College, Puri. The gathering had narrowly escaped demolition by the Puri Municipality aft activists launched a run to sphere it.
It was besides decided astatine the precocious level gathering to acceptable up a taxable pavilion showcasing eminent Odia writers and their literate contributions astatine the Cuttack Bali Jatra, an yearly week-long festival to commemmorate the journeys of past Odia mariners to islands that are portion of modern-day Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
“Indonesia volition beryllium invited arsenic the spouse state for this year’s event. Under the ‘Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat’ initiative, an Indian State volition besides beryllium invited arsenic the Partner State. Additionally, taste troupes from respective South Asian countries volition beryllium invited to enactment and showcase their accepted performances,” said a connection issued by the Odia Language, Literature, and Culture Department.
