Book Review

Review By Dr Upama Behera Dipti Ranjan Pattanaik’s In Search of Ms Adela Quested and Other Stories, is a translation of nineteen short stories originally composed in Odia. The book...

Heart Lamp is a heart-warming collection that delights in the same measure that it educates. The book grips you from the opening sentence and keeps you under its spell through...

Author of the novella, Mrinalini Padhi, is a well known law practitioner, social activist, famous for her Public Interest Litigation on practices in Shree Jagannath Temple in Puri, besides being...

‘By the Grace of God’, a collection of articles by Sidhant Das, is like a bouquet of beautiful flowers with attractive colours and a lingering fragrance. They are essentially personal...

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...