Virtual Reading: A New Initiative By Thespian Ananta Mahapatra by Himansu S Mohapatra April 28, 2021 Anant Mahapatra needs no introduction, of course. He is one of the most renowned thespians and theatre personalities of Odisha... Read moreDetails
“Chha Mana Atha Guntha” And Its Latest English Avatar by Himansu S Mohapatra April 19, 2021 Unlike the iconic early novels in some Indian languages, Fakir Mohan Senapati’s Chha Mana Atha Guntha (1897-99), considered the first... Read moreDetails
An Odia Woman Writer’s Voyage In And Out by Himansu S Mohapatra February 27, 2021 Jayshree Misra Tripathi is a Delhi-based Odia writer who writes in English. Primarily a poet, she works in prose too.... Read moreDetails
A Fresh Defence Of Criticism by Himansu S Mohapatra February 7, 2021 In early 2016 I came upon a remarkable book from reading a review of it in Sunday Book Review, New... Read moreDetails
Simple With A Twist by Himansu S Mohapatra January 9, 2021 One of the back cover endorsements for The lost Daughter and Other Stories is spot on with its remark that... Read moreDetails
Battles Of Our Own: From A Quaint Odia Novel To Modern Indian Classic by Himansu S Mohapatra November 15, 2020 The Odisha Literature Festival, which has been hosted by The New Indian Express in Bhubaneswar since 2012, has from this... Read moreDetails
The True Postcolonial: A Tribute To Ananta Charan Sukla by Himansu S Mohapatra October 10, 2020 In the death of Ananta Charan Sukla - he passed away in his Cuttack residence on 30 September, aged 78... Read moreDetails
Towards A ‘Science’ Of Translation In Odisha by Himansu S Mohapatra August 30, 2020 Preamble I am thinking back to the year 1997, which will explain the genesis of this book and the fact... Read moreDetails
Ganeswar Mishra’s Lesser-Known Novel Has Recipe For Connecting The Local and The Global by Himansu S Mohapatra August 9, 2020 No Longer at Home Of late the charming novels of Tishani Doshi, a Chennai-based young Indian writer in English, have... Read moreDetails
Two US Returnees Narrate Their Covideital Journey To Bhubaneswar by Himansu S Mohapatra July 22, 2020 A measure of how the ongoing pandemic has upended the world is how the name – COVID – has lent... Read moreDetails