Himansu S Mohapatra

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,…

In the waning sunlight before dusk, the bus was crawling up a steep, narrow road that spiralled around the mighty Kalinga Ghat. The side seat on the front right provided a view of the…

Sundays slid on listlessly on the campus all through the summer of 1987. Shops and stores being closed, there was nothing to do, at least not for the miniscule community of overseas Indians…

“Do you mind spelling out for me the names of the four people that are always popping up in your talk? So I can write them down in my notebook. Will help me to know where you’re coming…

Terry Eagleton, in the book under review, has written about five British critics of the last century who, by general consent, revolutionized the reading of English literature before the…

(Salt of the Earth. By Kalindi Charan Panigrahi. Translated from the Original Odia By Leelawati Mohapatra, Paul St-Pierre and KK Mohapatra. Penguin Random House, India, 2022, Gurugram pp.…

The untimely death of Debendra Kumar Dash on August 25, 2022, at the age of sixty-eight, has robbed Odisha of its worthiest sons. The loss is not simply to be measured by the number of…