Sitakant Mahapatra
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Harvard University and Cambridge Town had come into being because of the efforts of several intellectuals ‘banished’ from England. Setting up colony in a new continent, Boston Tea Party and naming of New England are topics from history texts. The old students of Cambridge University of England had left their country. But they had not been able to forget their 800-year-old university. Therefore, they named the town as Cambridge. Harvard University had ...
They Sing Life is an anthology of the oral poetry of selected primitive tribes of Eastern India. That region has a concentration of tribal communities with a rich mosaic of ethnic culture. Te translator-editor calls this poetry song-poems, whose two other dimensions are dance numbers and ritual performances. They have been arranged primarily around life-cycle rituals and the seasonal agricultural practices. The translations achieve such clear simplicity and ...
The essays in this collection were presented in various national and international seminars. They cover a wide range of subjects in the field of literature, art and culture. They seek to explore the interface between technology and communication, culture and development, tradition and modernisation. They are marked by rare lucidity, sharp logic and a holistic perception of ground realities that shape personal psyche and social reality. Taken together they ...
Gopinath Mohanty, the eminent Indian novelist, passed away in August 1991 after a brief illness. His Paraja and Amrutara Santan, two of the finest Indian novels since Independence, are structured on India’s little-known tribal world. The former received rave reviews when it was published by Faber and Faber in 1987, forty-two years after the publication of the original in Oriya. Amrutara Sanatn was the first Indian novel to receive the Sahitya Akademi Award in ...