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Sunday Poem: Homecoming
Childhood Homecomings,
Grandparents and warm embraces,
sweet delicacies to relish,
aromatic fragrances
that assailed the senses.
Flickering diyas at eventide,
from the puja room
on…
Renowned Odia Writer Dash Benhur To Receive ‘Nabagunjara Samman’ 2023
Bhubaneswar: Eminent Odia writer Jitendra Narayan Dash, popularly known as Dash Benhur in Odisha, will be conferred with the prestigious ‘Nabagunjara Samman’ for 2023 for his contribution to…
Renowned Odia Writer Bhima Prusty To Receive 44th Sarala Puraskar
Bhubaneswar: Eminent Odia fiction writer Bhima Prusty will be conferred with the prestigious Sarala Puraskar for his novel ‘Jambulok’, which was published by Paschima Publications in 2017.…
Eminent Writer Geeta Mehta Passes Away In New Delhi
Bhubaneswar: Eminent author, documentary filmmaker and journalist Geeta Mehta passed away at her residence in New Delhi on Saturday. She was 80.
Daughter of Odisha’s former Chief Minister…
Jayanta Mahapatra: Connecting The Disconnects In Life & Poetry
Jayanta Mahapatra is one of the few top-ranking names in Indian English poetry, accepted globally. The fact that his poems are taught in many universities across the world testifies to his…
English Translation Of Odisha’s Jnanpith Award Winner, Gopinath Mohanty’s…
Bhubaneswar: The English translation of Gopinath Mohanty’s Utkalmani was released at a function in the Odisha capital. The function was chaired by Pradosh Kumar Mohanty, former Income Tax…
‘Ganeswar Mishra Amalgamated Literature And Journalism In His Writings’
Bhubaneswar: Stressing that journalistic flavour is increasing in literature, well-known writer and researcher Asit Mohanty here on Wednesday said the space for coverage of literature in…
Tribal Writers Stress On Arresting Trend Of Indigenous Languages Getting Extinct
Bhubaneswar: Experts at the All India Tribal Writers’ Meet on Wednesday expressed deep concern about indigenous languages becoming extinct.
They pointed out that nearly 40% of the world’s…
Sahitya Akademi & Bhubaneswar’s SOA To Organise National Tribal Writers’ Meet
Bhubaneswar: Around 70 eminent tribal writers and poets are expected to join a two-day national Tribal Writers’ meet to be organised here by Sahitya Akademi in collaboration with Siksha ‘O’…
Near-Fatal Knife Attack: Salman Rushdie Has ‘Crazy Dreams’, To Write A Book
London: Salman Rushdie has been having ‘crazy dreams’ after surviving a near-fatal knife attack in New York last August.
The 76-year-old Booker Prize-winning author was on stage almost a…