New Delhi: Welcoming the New Year 2021, the Central government on Friday shared “a motivating poem” written by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on its official Twitter handle.
Titled “Abhi…
Bhubaneswar: Well-known lyricist and poet Gulzar’s collection of translated poems, ‘A Poem A Day’, has featured poems of Odisha's eminent Koshali poet Haldhar Nag.
The collection of poem…
Bhubaneswar: A poem written by seven-year-old Odia girl Olivia Bhadra, who studies in Charles Darwin Primary School, Norwich (UK), has become part of an anthology ‘Friendly Monsters’.
The…
The doors:
Doors at the front,
Doors at the back,
Doors above doors,
Doors next to the doors.
Doors in the village,
Doors by the lanes,
Doors in shopping malls and markets;
Door…
Here I hear, now and then
thumping and dancing of ghosts
of the war field soldiers
who died of stress and fear
running around unseen fires
of up till unfulfilled desires
and gross…
I heard
You're gone,
In the stretched muffled breath of the night,
In increasing pain,
No forecasts, no warnings,
No information, no preparation,
Infected by the Corona virus…
I fell into a dream
And awoke in it
And I have been
In the dream since.
The world is mine
The rivers and the mountains
And the sentient trees;
The fishes, birds and animals
Talk to…
I said our village is better
You said my eyes are small,
I am a small village girl
My dreams are small.
I said adorn my hair with a ring of mogra flowers
You said my expectations are…
Like they clear the sewers before rain comes
I clear my thought before thought comes.
The sky no more is blue in the city,
clouds are no more black or white
acres of playground are…
Bhubaneswar: In an effort to make the people aware of the novel coronavirus, Ollywood actor-comedian Papu Pom Pom has composed a poem in Odia.
In the poem, the actor has said the virus…