Mahatma Gandhi wrote about his visit to the Puri Jagannath Temple in the Navajivan Patrika.
In his tour diary, published on April 10, 1921, in the Gujarati newspaper Navajivan, Gandhi confirmed his visit to the temple on March 27, 1921, along with his wife Kasturba and son Devdas. He described having darshan of Lord Jagannath, Balabhadra, and Devi Subhadra in the sanctum sanctorum and feeling immensely blessed. This account also appears in the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 23 (covering April 6 to 29, 1921). In his writings, Gandhi reflected on the experience, noting the insincerity of some priests and expressing dismay at the extreme poverty in Odisha, which he compared to Champaran. He questioned how such conditions could exist under divine oversight, concluding that it aligns with the law of karma.
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