Book Review

You may have seen some fathers helping their young daughters to appreciate the magic of a rainbow or brood over its colours, but certainly not someone ride roughshod over his...

Jayshree Misra Tripathi is a Delhi-based Odia writer who writes in English. Primarily a poet, she works in prose too. Given her cross-cultural journeys flavoured by her perspective as a...

In early 2016 I came upon a remarkable book from reading a review of it in Sunday Book Review, New York Times, February 21, 2016. The book was titled Better...

Note Introducing “Letters to Jorina” Though a prolific writer, the fictional output of Ganeswar Mishra (1942-2015) is not large. Up until a short time before his death, he was known...

One of the back cover endorsements for The lost Daughter and Other Stories is spot on with its remark that the hallmark of these stories is their ‘simple, straightforward and...

There was a time, much before the expanse of social media and its electronic articulation, when the All India Radio was the solitary purveyor of instant news in India. There...

Preamble I am thinking back to the year 1997, which will explain the genesis of this book and the fact of it being inscribed to the memory of Ganeswar Mishra....

‘No Strings Attached’ by Bhaskar Parichha is a compendium of Odisha’s politics, political players and social leaders from varied fields and of trends in the state’s narratives, primarily touching the...

When Odisha is taking the lead in political empowerment of women and has elected seven from the fairer sex to the Lok Sabha, the translation of Basanti, an Odia classic...