Literature

At a time when pandemic woes have left people frazzled and ill- tempered, laughter has become a rare sight. With the backlog of movies and shows to watch being exhausted,...

October 11, 2012, was first observed as International Day of the Girl Child. Today, after eight years females are still perceived to be unequal to men in getting the rights...

In the death of Ananta Charan Sukla - he passed away in his Cuttack residence on 30 September, aged 78 - Odisha lost an English Professor who was the exact...

I am not a saint Don't make one of me. It wasn't all sacrifice and humility and truth. I didn't start out to Appropriate the forgotten. It was not till...

In Sarala Das’s Odia version of the Mahabharata, which is the first complete rendition of the epic by a single author in any language other than Sanskrit, Ganga is a...

Considering it is Oct 4, World Animal Day, I am thinking of my favourite animal - the horse: a creature that is majestic, suave, agile and full of elegance. I...

Literary Character: Tita de la Garza Book: Like Water for Chocolate (1989) As India celebrates Daughter’s Day today, I am reminded of Tita de la Garza, who remains one of...

The term ‘time machine’ coined by H G Wells, whose birth anniversary is on September 21, has been commonly used after the publication of his novel “The Time Machine” (1895)....

Indian-origin writer Avni Doshi’s debut novel 'Burnt Sugar' about love between mother and daughter, is among the six books shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction. The winner will...

With Khurda of late reporting the highest number of COVID-19 positive cases in Odisha on Saturday, I began thinking of writer Daniel Defoe’s quote: “Fear of danger is ten thousand...