When eminent poet and former bureaucrat Ramakanta Rath penned the long, modern classic poem of love and desolation ‘Sri Radha' 25 years ago in 1985, he had never thought that it would be enacted one day and that too with the best of stagecraft.
Though the famous poem has been translated into several languages, staging it through a spellbinding performance turned out to be a rare occurrence in the world of Odia literature leaving mesmerized not only the art and poetry lovers of the twin city but also the poet himself, who were all carried away by the impeccable and inimitable theatrical expression of the transcendental sense of pathos, love and romance depicted in the poem.
Hundreds of people thronged to watch the rare mono-act performance of ‘Sri Radha' by noted writer and filmmaker Biyot Projna Tripathy under the able direction of eminent theatre exponent Ananta Mohapatra at two separate cultural programmes held in Cuttack and Bhubaneswar recently.
Full report here Kalinga Times
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Shishu Sahitya Ratna award for Punyaprava
Well-known writer Punyaprava Devi was conferred the ‘Shishu Sahitya Ratna’ at the 9th Oriya Children’s Literature Writers’ Conference held in Cuttack recently.
She had received the National Award for best children’s literature in Oriya in 1960 and Akashvani Award for her martial songs in 1962.
Staying in Visakhapatnam since 1964, she is also equally good at writing short stories and novels in Oriya and has six anthologies, six novels and 11 children’s books published so far.
Many of her children’s stories, translated into English by her husband Prahlad Chandra Mohanty have been published in Readers’ Bulletin by National Book Trust and translated into Telugu. A number of short stories have been published in ‘Vipula’.
Full report here Express Buzz
She had received the National Award for best children’s literature in Oriya in 1960 and Akashvani Award for her martial songs in 1962.
Staying in Visakhapatnam since 1964, she is also equally good at writing short stories and novels in Oriya and has six anthologies, six novels and 11 children’s books published so far.
Many of her children’s stories, translated into English by her husband Prahlad Chandra Mohanty have been published in Readers’ Bulletin by National Book Trust and translated into Telugu. A number of short stories have been published in ‘Vipula’.
Full report here Express Buzz
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Literary books still favourite in Orissa fair
With only 62 stalls in 1985, the Bhubaneswar Book Fair started a revolution of sorts in Oriya publishing industry
Now it is 400 plus stalls and many such fairs at State and district-level replicate the success story in their own way. But are the publishers getting the expected response? Do the footfalls match the earlier ones? Though it is a very sensitive issue and no one wants to go on record, it is sure that so many fairs in the Capital have diluted the response. But books are selling and the buyers are picking their titles as before.
More than 1.5 lakh titles on display and 250 new books on the `new releases list’ at the current book fair, literary books are selling more and they remain the favourite, said founding member and treasurer of the committee Uttam Charan Nayak. So many book fairs might have affected the footfalls, but the phenomenon has no bearing on the oldest book fair, he said adding a publisher from Cuttack who started with only one stall in 1985 is currently having five stalls to display his titles.
On literary books, sales representatives of Orissa Sahitya Akademi said apart from the three major book fairs in the Capital they are also on display at other regional ones at Kendrapara, Bhadrak, Balasore, Angul, Sambalpur, Rourkela, Dhenkanal, Boudh, Nayagarh, Puri, Berhampur and planning to participate at Phulbani in March and the trend to buy Akademi books is encouraging.
From the rough estimates of 2008, 2009-10’s sales were impressive, they said. However, officials of National Book Trust (NBT) felt that too many book fairs are affecting the sales and many regional publishers from Kolkata had admitted that there was a downtrend.
Full report here Express Buzz
Now it is 400 plus stalls and many such fairs at State and district-level replicate the success story in their own way. But are the publishers getting the expected response? Do the footfalls match the earlier ones? Though it is a very sensitive issue and no one wants to go on record, it is sure that so many fairs in the Capital have diluted the response. But books are selling and the buyers are picking their titles as before.
More than 1.5 lakh titles on display and 250 new books on the `new releases list’ at the current book fair, literary books are selling more and they remain the favourite, said founding member and treasurer of the committee Uttam Charan Nayak. So many book fairs might have affected the footfalls, but the phenomenon has no bearing on the oldest book fair, he said adding a publisher from Cuttack who started with only one stall in 1985 is currently having five stalls to display his titles.
On literary books, sales representatives of Orissa Sahitya Akademi said apart from the three major book fairs in the Capital they are also on display at other regional ones at Kendrapara, Bhadrak, Balasore, Angul, Sambalpur, Rourkela, Dhenkanal, Boudh, Nayagarh, Puri, Berhampur and planning to participate at Phulbani in March and the trend to buy Akademi books is encouraging.
From the rough estimates of 2008, 2009-10’s sales were impressive, they said. However, officials of National Book Trust (NBT) felt that too many book fairs are affecting the sales and many regional publishers from Kolkata had admitted that there was a downtrend.
Full report here Express Buzz
Monday, March 1, 2010
Oriya writer Dr. Sarojini Sahoo enlisted among 25 Exceptional women of India
The enlisted names are: Sonia Gandhi, Arundhati Roy, Indira Jaising, Barkha Dutt, Ritu Kumar , Meera Nair, Mahasweta Devi,Kiran Majumdar Shaw,Anjolie Ela Menon, Sunta Narain, Ma Faiza, Koneru Humpy, Medha Patkar, Shabna Azmi, Romila Thappar, Sarojini Sahoo, Irom Sharmila,Tipriti Kharbhangar, Mary Kom, Shahnaz Hussain, Mayawati, Chanda Kochhar , Aishwarya Rai Bachhan.
Sarojini Sahoo born in 1956 at small town Dhenkanal. Sarojini earned her MA and PhD degrees in Oriya Literature and a Bachelor of Law from Utkal University. She now teaches at a degree college in Belpahar, Jharsuguda, Orissa. She won the Orissa Sahitya Academy Award (1993), the Jhankar Award (1992), the Bhubaneswar Book Fair Award, and the Prajatantra Award. She is the second daughter of Ishwar Chandra Sahoo and the late Nalini Devi and is married to Jagadish Mohanty, a veteran writer of Orissa. She has a son and a daughter.
Full report here Orissadiary.com
Friday, February 19, 2010
Now, you can type regional languages on mobiles
To help millions of mobile users who do not know English, an Indian company has conceptualised and brought out a multilingual keypad known as Panini Keypa. Buzz up!India, which boasts of 50 crore mobile users, also is a land of many languages. The Panini keypad is aimed at those millions of users who do not know English.
The new technology, which is available for free download, supports typing in many regional languages of India including Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya and Assamese.
The new system does not require printed characters of any language on the phone as the characters are displayed on the screen and the user can type using the numeric keypad.The technology, which has been formulated through statistical mining of the nature of each Indian language, can also be applied for PCs, web, ATM, Touch screen kiosks, STB, IPTV etc.
Full report here OneIndia
The new system does not require printed characters of any language on the phone as the characters are displayed on the screen and the user can type using the numeric keypad.The technology, which has been formulated through statistical mining of the nature of each Indian language, can also be applied for PCs, web, ATM, Touch screen kiosks, STB, IPTV etc.
Full report here OneIndia
Recognising women, their creativity
Bhubaneshwar witnessed a unique event at the Red Cross Bhawan on Sunday – hosted exclusively by and for women. It was the 17th annual literary festival of Orissa Lekhika Samsad (Orissa women writers’ forum) that has above 500 members spread across all the 30 districts of Orissa.
“We have no gender bias but we love to celebrate the creativity and achievements of our sisters,” remarked Samsad’s founder-president and Akademi awardee celebrated fiction writer Binapani Mohanty. True to her observations, the meet had a number of women writers who are hardly being acknowledged.
One such surprise was 86-year-old Durgabati Tripathy from Baripada – the chief speaker of the event - who writes in English, Oriya and Bengali and whom legendary litterateur late Mayadhar Mansingh had encouraged to write. Durgabati, who had not even finished her schooling, received thunderous applause as she recited her autobiographical poem “My identity” in English that depicts the identity of a woman.
Full report here Express Buzz
“We have no gender bias but we love to celebrate the creativity and achievements of our sisters,” remarked Samsad’s founder-president and Akademi awardee celebrated fiction writer Binapani Mohanty. True to her observations, the meet had a number of women writers who are hardly being acknowledged.
One such surprise was 86-year-old Durgabati Tripathy from Baripada – the chief speaker of the event - who writes in English, Oriya and Bengali and whom legendary litterateur late Mayadhar Mansingh had encouraged to write. Durgabati, who had not even finished her schooling, received thunderous applause as she recited her autobiographical poem “My identity” in English that depicts the identity of a woman.
Full report here Express Buzz
Friday, April 10, 2009
Rahul Gandhi invokes Oriya poet
That Orissa is a frontline state in the battle for elections 2009 is becoming clearer by the day. And parties are invoking one and all to help them win seats.
Well, Congress scion Rahul Gandhi started his campaign on April 8 by invoking Bhima Bhoi, a famous poet from the region as his two-day campaign started from Rairakhol.
Well, Congress scion Rahul Gandhi started his campaign on April 8 by invoking Bhima Bhoi, a famous poet from the region as his two-day campaign started from Rairakhol.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Oriya publisher enters record books
One poverty stricken publisher has recorded his name in the Limca Book of Records by publishing a magazine in 60 languages.
Fund crunch failed to prevent Bijaya Kumar Mohapatra, 40, from fulfilling his long cherished dream of publishing a magazine in 64 languages and entering the Limca Book of Records. An attempt that started in 1990 with publication of 'Suna Bhaunei' in Oriya and subsequently the 'Loving Sister' in English in 1992 has now 60 versions in different languages. With financial assistance of Rs 5,000 from his brother-in-law Mohapatra has published.
Other versions of the magazine are Payri Bahan ( 1992) in Hindi, Loving sister (1992) in English, Sona Bona(1992) in Bengali, Vahali Bahen (1998)in Gujarati, Priyamania Chellelu(1998) in Telgu, Subrana Bhagani (1998) in Sanskrit, Priya Sodari (1998) in Kannad, Pyari Bahen (1999) in Urudu, Maramara Bharti (1999) in Assemese, Anbu Sagothari (1999) in Tamil , Pyari Bhen (1999) in Sindhi, Piari Bhen (1999) in Punjabi, Priya Tai (2000) in Marathi, Dulaliya Misera (2000) in Santhali, Priya Sahodari (2000) in in Malayalam, Pyari Bahini (2000) in Nepali, Nungsirabi Icha (2001) in Manipuri, Mogal Bhayana (2001) in Konkani, Suna Bahen (2001) in Koshali, Ladi Bhen (2003) in Dogari, Suna Angi (2004) in Kui, Dulari Bahin (2004) in Bhojapuri, Tyath Byani (2004) in Kashmiri, Suna Bahen (2004) in Dam, Dulari Bahin (2004) in Maithili and other languages. Much to his satisfaction and to the appreciation of many, the magazine even appears in dialects as little known as Angika Bajika, Magahai and Ho.
Despite poverty of his family and absence of any support from the administration for his effort, Mohapatra has made history in his region by publishing in 60 languages. He has also established a mini library cum museum in his Pakanpur village in which he has stored several old publications and manuscripts. His collection of antiques, old coins, postal stamps, and photographs have also been displayed in the museum. He is also bringing out a weekly of children's literature, 'The World Children's Literature' in English, Oriya, and Hindi since 2001.
Editor, Limca Book of Records Vijaya Ghose has awarded him for editing and publishing children's magazine in most languages over past 20 years. He succeeded in bringing out the magazines in 50 languages by 2007. Mohapatra said that he has determined to publish this magazine in other 240 languages in future.
Poverty is no bar but strong will and determination has made me success to achieve this award bringing proud for my effort. District collector Mr Pramoda Kumar Meherdha and eminent littérateur Mr Mohendra Kuamr Acharay, eminent social activist Mr Akshaya Kumar Behera , local legislator Mr Bishnu Das and others have praised him for his out standing performance in his litterateur work.
Fund crunch failed to prevent Bijaya Kumar Mohapatra, 40, from fulfilling his long cherished dream of publishing a magazine in 64 languages and entering the Limca Book of Records. An attempt that started in 1990 with publication of 'Suna Bhaunei' in Oriya and subsequently the 'Loving Sister' in English in 1992 has now 60 versions in different languages. With financial assistance of Rs 5,000 from his brother-in-law Mohapatra has published.
Other versions of the magazine are Payri Bahan ( 1992) in Hindi, Loving sister (1992) in English, Sona Bona(1992) in Bengali, Vahali Bahen (1998)in Gujarati, Priyamania Chellelu(1998) in Telgu, Subrana Bhagani (1998) in Sanskrit, Priya Sodari (1998) in Kannad, Pyari Bahen (1999) in Urudu, Maramara Bharti (1999) in Assemese, Anbu Sagothari (1999) in Tamil , Pyari Bhen (1999) in Sindhi, Piari Bhen (1999) in Punjabi, Priya Tai (2000) in Marathi, Dulaliya Misera (2000) in Santhali, Priya Sahodari (2000) in in Malayalam, Pyari Bahini (2000) in Nepali, Nungsirabi Icha (2001) in Manipuri, Mogal Bhayana (2001) in Konkani, Suna Bahen (2001) in Koshali, Ladi Bhen (2003) in Dogari, Suna Angi (2004) in Kui, Dulari Bahin (2004) in Bhojapuri, Tyath Byani (2004) in Kashmiri, Suna Bahen (2004) in Dam, Dulari Bahin (2004) in Maithili and other languages. Much to his satisfaction and to the appreciation of many, the magazine even appears in dialects as little known as Angika Bajika, Magahai and Ho.
Despite poverty of his family and absence of any support from the administration for his effort, Mohapatra has made history in his region by publishing in 60 languages. He has also established a mini library cum museum in his Pakanpur village in which he has stored several old publications and manuscripts. His collection of antiques, old coins, postal stamps, and photographs have also been displayed in the museum. He is also bringing out a weekly of children's literature, 'The World Children's Literature' in English, Oriya, and Hindi since 2001.
Editor, Limca Book of Records Vijaya Ghose has awarded him for editing and publishing children's magazine in most languages over past 20 years. He succeeded in bringing out the magazines in 50 languages by 2007. Mohapatra said that he has determined to publish this magazine in other 240 languages in future.
Poverty is no bar but strong will and determination has made me success to achieve this award bringing proud for my effort. District collector Mr Pramoda Kumar Meherdha and eminent littérateur Mr Mohendra Kuamr Acharay, eminent social activist Mr Akshaya Kumar Behera , local legislator Mr Bishnu Das and others have praised him for his out standing performance in his litterateur work.
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