Himansu S Mohapatra

Vauhini Vara, a US-based writer of Indian origin, won the Kalinga Literature Festival Fiction Award for her short story collection This is Salvaged. Joining the awards ceremony online on 11…

Vauhini Vara, a US-based writer of Indian origin, won the Kalinga Literature Festival Fiction Award for her short story collection This is Salvaged. Joining the awards ceremony online on…

Mohan, the only son of a police constable in a coastal village of Odisha, receives his coveted I-20 for a Bachelor’s degree in engineering at the State University of New York at Stony Brook,…

Is there anything in common between The Taj Hotel in Mumbai and Maharaja Purna Chandra (MPC) College in Baripada? Or for that matter between the cartoon animation movie Ratatouille and MPC…

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…