Literature

Bhubaneswar: Noted Odia writer Yashodhara Mishra will receive Kendra Sahitya Akademi award -2020 for her book ‘Samudrakula Ghara’, which was published in 2016. The names of the awardees were announced...

The tide comes to wipe the fishy smell and stale footprints off the sands on shore. Come, kids ! And see without touch the architecture of tiny crabs woven on...

Thank God, it’s the last day/ Of my stay in Kabul today/ Seven months of this hell lived/ Will haunt me for a lifetime/ Scarred by sleepless nights/ Listening to...

Do(e) Re Me Fa(r) So La Ti.... Every time Subrat thought about the cult song from The Sound of Music, he stopped short at ‘So’. “How does ‘a needle pulling...

Deserting me alone you left …and you left, I am sinking and sinking With every passing moment In fathomless mid-ocean.   No help around…day by day Hope shrinks, In deep...

Bhubaneswar: Renowned columnist and Editor (Translation) of Oxford University Press Mini Krishnan on Monday stressed the importance of children being taught in their mother tongues in schools as those deprived...

This book of love poems is not mine Page 57 line 15 still blames me for abandoning my Desire for you in favour of unattainable love The feather marking the...

Bhubaneswar: Eminent Odia fiction writer Paramita Satpathy has been selected for 42nd Sarala Puraskar for her novel “Abhipreta Kala”. The novel was published in 2016 by Paschima Publications, Bhubaneswar. She...

From early childhood, fear of trains was ingrained in Subrat. A stage has now come when he clung on to them for dear life. From a terrible fear of the...

Those who stayed back on the road, after having found patches of shade, I have sent them news, that I am still on the road, walking. For this whole stretch,...