While we have Google Calendar and Alexa to remind us of meetings, we have lost the tactile joy of waking up and seeing Lord Jagannath’s eyes meet ours from the wall. For the Odia community, preserving the 1994 Kohinoor calendar is not about nostalgia for paper—it is about preserving the Sanskar (values) that defined Odia middle-class life in the 1990s.
While we have Google Calendar and Alexa to remind us of meetings, we have lost the tactile joy of waking up and seeing Lord Jagannath’s eyes meet ours from the wall. For the Odia community, preserving the 1994 Kohinoor calendar is not about nostalgia for paper—it is about preserving the Sanskar (values) that defined Odia middle-class life in the 1990s.
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