Literature

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...

On Earth, There were days and nights, Usual, ordinary, and regular; but There came a time when The days grew longer, the nights shrank; and Then the nights stretched, and...

New Delhi: Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi have won the International Booker Prize for fiction. Mushtaq was honoured for the book ‘Heart Lamp,’ a collection of 12...

New York: The man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage three years ago was on Friday sentenced to 25 years in prison. A jury found...

I asked my mother, “Can one separate one’s body from one’s mind?” She laughed and said, “Don’t be silly. It isn’t possible. For me, my child, You are my body,...

Desolate nights, the empty mind Staring into the shiny mirror She stuck her red bindi To wash off her Remaining feelings. It didn't occur to her When the passionate night...

Bhubaneswar: Poets, scholars and activists came together to celebrate the power of verse while shedding light on the significance of Down Syndrome to mark World Poetry Day and World Down...

What struck me when I first met Shri Ramakant Rath at Ravindra Mandap in Bhubaneswar during the release of my first Odia short story collection, Akashara Luha (2015), was his...

(Translation of legendary poet Ramakanta Rath’s Odia poem by Sailen Routray) I know the other gods in a more or less perfunctory manner. The sea-god, whose long and broad wall...

Bhubaneswar: Odia translator and journalist Suvash Satapathy will receive the prestigious Kendra Sahitya Akademi Prize for translation for the year 2024. He will be conferred with the award in recognition...