Himansu S Mohapatra

There is good news for the small world of Odia celluloid and the larger socio-cultural world of Odisha. A book entitled 'Of Reels, Romance and Retakes: Social Narratives of Cinema in Odisha'…

Fakirmohan Senapati:The Making of an Author, published by Vidyapuri, is unprecedented for two reasons. Firstly, it is a comprehensive assessment of the entire oeuvre of Senapati. Secondly,…

The bus left Cuttack’s Badambadi around 9 at night and got to Sambalpur in the small hours of the morning. Dawn was yet to break. The sky over Sambalpur was dark, with no hint of orange…

Up to mid-July, there was absolutely no sign that anything in or about his life in Baripada was going to change or was to be termed ‘the old life’ hereafter. True, there was no college to go…

The L-shaped house with its sloping two-part tiled roofing stood at the end of the road just before the road gave way to the small bridge over river Sukjuda. It basked in the warm glow of…

It may be a long road from the Low to the High. But it surely is a short step from letter ‘C’ to letter ‘O’ in the imagination. And this is despite the little delay involved, as the tongue…

In course of time school ended and college life began for Subrat.  It didn’t, however, bring the much coveted independence. Also it was a new ‘C’ word that troubled him now, making a mockery…

It was in the slice of real life as it was in that slice of reel. A young couple in their late twenties and their three-year-old daughter were walking the Chowringhee Road under a sweltering…

With Test over just before Christmas holidays, school was practically over for the 1973 batch. With the turn of the year, new things were coming to light such as tie-ups that were not…

First the sandalwood tilak on the forehead and a single shrivelled-up rose with its aluminum foil-wrapped stem tucked into the shirt pocket. This was the pre-entry ritual. Then upon entry,…