Pictorial input: Laxmi Prasad Pattanayak Journalist Subhas Chandra Pattanayak’s two historic books – (1) Orissa Pradesh Srustire Ganamadhyam and (2) Nabakalebara: Legends and Reality – were released in the evening of December 29 in the jampacked auditorium of Red … Read more →
Dr. Sudhansu Dash, a higher education teacher in English, belongs to my place Athgarh, with his ancestral home in Tarading. The Athgarh Sub-Division has given tremendous contributions to the world of letters. I find a fine incarnation of the … Read more →
In Orissa Sahitya Akademi’s series of Prof. Arta Ballav Mohanty Memorial Lectures this year, India’s eminent poet Ashok Vajpayi lauded Oriya language as the language that bears the country’s oldest poetic tradition. Not only poetry had blossomed in Oriya matchlessly … Read more →
Eminent publishing house Bharata Bharati that has published all my books so far has brought out two of my new titles, one a poetic translation of the famous songs of immortal Maithili poet Vidyapati, compiled under the caption VIDYAPATINKA PREMAGEET, … Read more →
Linguistic Survey of India has unambiguously declared that Oriya, amongst Indian Languages, is so rich in vocabulary that “neither Bengali nor Hindi nor Telugu can vie with it”. Naturally, therefore, Orissa’s contribution to the world of poetry has remained superb. … Read more →