Kalinga's capital, carved in stone.
Capital of Odisha, home to over seven hundred temples spanning a thousand years — and, a few kilometres away, one of eastern India's fastest-growing tech corridors.
Bhubaneswar has been Odisha's spiritual centre since the Kalinga kings first raised the Lingaraj temple, and its administrative one since 1948, when it was chosen over Cuttack to be free of a flood-prone site. Today the same city plans its temple festivals and its startup calendar off the same civic grid.
Lingaraj, Rajarani, Mukteshwar — a living open-air museum of Kalinga architecture, with more standing shrines than any city in India.
Seat of the state government since independence, and now home to a widening IT and electronics corridor along Chandaka.
An hour from Konark's Sun Temple and Puri's Jagannath shrine — the three points travellers cross Odisha to see.
Odisha, India