The 55-year-old laughs as he admits this. With the aim of depicting the architectural wonders of the state, also known as the Soul of India, he along with Dr Kajri Misra compiled the 201-page visually-arresting book published by Bloomsbury, for which they even travelled to Maoist and Naxal-hit areas.
Take, for example, the Jagannath Rath Yatra, one of the oldest festivals observed in Puri, Odisha where the deities of Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra are taken out in a procession in three richly decorated chariots.
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