Literature

Terry Eagleton, in the book under review, has written about five British critics of the last century who, by general consent, revolutionized the reading of English literature before the so-called...

Bhubaneswar: Eminent Odia fiction writer Dr Gourahari Das was conferred with the prestigious Sarala Puraskar for his short-story collection ‘Bagha O Anyanya Galpa’, which was published by Timepass Publication in...

New York: Celebrated author Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye and the use of a hand following a brutal attack two-and-a-half months ago, his agent revealed. Rushdie was...

Bhubaneswar: T S Eliot’s modernist classic ‘The Waste Land’, first published in 1922, turned 100 this month. To mark the occasion, ‘A Tryst with The Waste Land’ was organized at...

Bhawanipatna: Eminent Odia poet and writer Saroj Bal will be conferred with the prestigious ‘Bhubaneswar Behera Literary Award’ for this year for his outstanding contribution in the field of literature....

Jagatsinghpur: A 16-year-old girl from Odisha has written a book on President Droupadi Murmu, chronicling her struggles and extraordinary achievements. The book in Odia titled Rashtrapati Droupadi Murmu has been...

Born in a working class family in Normandy, Annie studied at the Universities of Rouen and Bordeaux, became a school teacher and then got a higher degree in modern literature....

(Salt of the Earth. By Kalindi Charan Panigrahi. Translated from the Original Odia By Leelawati Mohapatra, Paul St-Pierre and KK Mohapatra. Penguin Random House, India, 2022, Gurugram pp. 160, 299.)...

When I started writing poetry in the late eighties, I confronted a vast tract of death and alienation. The poets of my time and my language were talking about something...

Waited for you quite long though perturbed I was with your thoughts I watched the waves in the sea breaking against the beach uninterruptedly. Slowly and gently sea breeze was...