Literature

The stage is echoingly silent The lights are all off today Empty chairs & undrawn curtains No more to see you dance today... Drunken Eyes Your eyes had poured flirtingly...

A year! From last new year to this Christmas, Five encounters and a few messages, Some cryptic, taciturn and some effervescent.   It was our first When we met once...

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...

Smitten by living Drowned in experience I was heedless Till a moment fraught Taught me the lesson of mortality Not morbid but prescient. I finally opened The Bhagvad Gita of...

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 well-researched...

Was it paradise? Heaven on earth? Bewildered by the magnificence of eternity counted on His creation of beauty mesmerized by lake's peaceful enormity embedded serenity in my life's proximity. High...

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...

Bhubaneswar: Noted Odia poet Hrushikesh Mallick has been selected for the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award. Announcing the awards for for 2021, the Akademi stated that Malick will be conferred the...

“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.”

Eyes met Over champagne flutes spilling over suppressed smiles. Eyes danced mischief blues flickering beyond the hallway   Morse code, undefined. Eyes fluttered as you kissed the hollow in my...