Odia Literature

By Srikant Mohanty: First television and subsequently a change in life-style leading to hectic schedules gradually did away with the passion for reading the favorite authors in detective novels. Few in the present generation even know that…

Veteran Odia writer Pratibha Ray was conferred the prestigious Jnanpith Award for the year 2011 for her life time research in literature. She is the fourth Odia to get the award after Sitakant Mohapatra. President Pranab Mukherjee…

Bhubaneswar: Eminent dramatist Manoranjan Das was the pioneer of the modern theatre movement in Odisha. Odia literature will now look empty without him after his death on Feb 17. He was the prominent face of Odia theatre, which has its…

TNI Bureau: Emulating the feat of Gopinath Mohanty (1973), Sachidananda Routray (1986) and Sitakant Mohapatra (1993), renowned Odia writer Pratibha Ray won the Jnanpith Award 2011 for her contribution to the field of literature. It was a…