Book Review

(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.…

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 Night, doesn’t lay…

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 one read…

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 the places and…

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…

Kusum Pant Joshi’s book has a foreword by Lyn Innes, Emeritus Professor of post colonial literature, University of Kent. Focused on colonial history and its determinants, it is a…

The book under review is a new translation of eleven short stories by veteran Odia litterateur Kishoricharan Das. The stories in the present volume take the reader on an unsettling journey…

“Wintering is a fallow period in life when you’re cut off from the world, feeling rejected, sidelined, blocked from progress or cast into the role of an outsider.”

The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun Manoj Das is not the first writer to obsess over the past. There is something about the past which…