Book Review

Dipti Ranjan Pattanaik’s ‘Sandigdha Shaisaba’, translated into English as ‘The Life and Times of Banka Harichandan’ is a rare work of literature that examines deep questions about life through the...

In domain of public service there are instances of champion performers, brilliant insightful thinkers and pathfinders who define  new pathways in the governance system to make it more citizen friendly...

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, it is the...

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 so-called...

(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. 160, 299.)...

A known face in Odia poetry, Gayatribala Panda now has her poems translated into English by Manua Das, himself a practising Odia poet. The collection of poems, A Slice of...

First, the good news. The famous Odia novel ‘Nija Nija Panipatha’ by the late Jagadish Mohanty is now available in English as ‘Battles of Our Own’. Translated by the eminent...

Except when poverty becomes an ‘event’ of scandalous proportion (a.k.a Dana Majhi, carrying his dead wife on his shoulders and walking for hours in the hot sun), how often does...

By Kabir Deb Lost in Obscurity and Other Stories by Debasish Mishra is a beautiful book of short stories that one must read to really understand the value of cultivating...

Odisha’s history is very much under-researched and largely unexplored by scholars and popular writers alike. Authors have restricted themselves to recreating the past glory of the state during the reign...