Bhubaneswar, May 2 -- https://images.odishatv.in/uploadimage/library/16_9/16_9_0/recent_photo_1746196769.webp

While the general outrage over the Jagannath Temple in Digha is entirely understandable, it certainly begs a few questions. Do we really need to be perturbed - or, at the very least, concerned - over the coming up of a temple dedicated to the Holy Trinity in the beach town of West Bengal? Will the 12th-century shrine in Puri lose its importance now that the Jagannath Temple has been 'consecrated' at Digha? Is the concern shared by all Odias or just a section of it?

For one thing, there are over 100 Jagannath Temples spread across the world, 15 of them in the USA alone. If they haven't taken the sheen off the original Jagannath Tem...