Anil Dhir

Anil Dhir is a renowned Historian and Researcher. He is a Convener of, the Bhubaneswar Chapter at the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage and Co-Convenor of the Odisha Chapter. He has been a keen student of History and Archaeology, specifically of Odisha’s history, culture, and archaeology. He has been working on it for the last two decades.

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India's 12,000 Forgotten Monuments: Heritage Conservationist Reveals Cultural Genocide in Orissa
India has 12,000+ unprotected heritage monuments. The government actively protects fewer than 300. Heritage activist Anil Dhirji shares 40 years of fieldwork — having personally documented 6,500 tangible heritage sites across 19 of Odisha’s 30 districts against a self-imposed 200-year threshold. With an estimated 12,000 unprotected monuments statewide versus government focus on just a handful like Konark and Lingaraj, the panel examines the limits of relying on ASI, state archaeology wings, and UNESCO. Panellists argue that a blame-government approach...