The 36th Indian Social Science Congress was inaugurated at KIIT University on Thursday. The theme of this session of the congress, which is being held in Odisha after a gap of 22 years, is ‘Science, Society and Planet Earth’. Inaugurating the five day congress chief guest Dr Manohar Lal Sharma, J&K Minister for State Cooperatives, Printing & Stationery and Elections, said that a visit to Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) was like visiting paradise.