(Clockwise from top left) Gajapati Dibya Singha Deb sweeps the deck of the Lord’s chariot, a banati player displays skills, Shankaracharya Swami Nischalananda Saraswati on the rath, Mahari dancers pose for the camera in front of the Lion’s Gate of the Jagannath temple in Puri and actor Anubhav Mohanty and his wife Barsha Priyadarshini at Dolamundai in Cuttack on Wednesday. Pictures by Pradip Sanyal, Badrika Nath Das and Sarat Patra