Puri (Orissa) - February 15th, 2007

Today I visited Ragharajpur, an artist's village about 15 kms. north from here. Many of the houses are adorned with murals and paintings, and all the artists are selling their goods infront of their little homes all line up next to each others.
This place is well known for the type of work called pattachitra. They use a cotton loth coated with a mixture of gum and chalk and then polished. They mark on animals, flowers, gods and demons, and brighten them up with various colors.
I walked by the seashore but, again, the waves were very high, and a good part of the beach is being used as a bathroom by the fishermen and poor people in that vecinity, so this is the finale as far as beaches on the northeast side of Bengal Bay and of India a well.