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Kuntala Kumari Sabat (1901–1938) was an Odia poet during colonial India. She was one of the women poets who came into prominence from Odisha during India’s freedom struggle. She was multifaceted personality. She was a physician, writer, poet, editor, leader of nationalist movement and social worker. She was honored with Utkala Bharati in 1925. Magazine Info Magazine nameUchhwasa / ଉଛ୍ୱାସାEditorKuntala Kumari SabatNo Of pages79PublisherKuntala Kumari SabatPublication1924Printed AtNADistributorNA Uchhwasa Sample Uchhwasa Full Pdf Download
“Tulasi Bikrama Ramayana” is a poetry book which was published by Bikramadeba Burma in 1926. Magazine Info Magazine nameTulasi Bikrama Ramayana/ ଉତ୍କଳ ଦର୍ପଣEditorBikramadeba BurmaNo Of pages230PublisherBikramadeba BurmaPublication1926Printed AtNADistributorNA Tulasi Bikrama Ramayana Sample Tulasi Bikrama Ramayana Full Pdf Download
Abhimanyu Samanta Singhara was an 18th-century Odia poet born in Balia, Jajpur best known as the writer of the iconic Bidagdha Chintamani kabya. Abhimanyu was one of the important musician-poets in the tradition of Odissi music in the 18th century, composing mainly in the Chhānda style. He has also written many Odia folk songs like Bagha Gita,Chadhei Gita. He has written many poems about the love between Radha and Krishna. Bidagdha Chintamani of Abhimanyu Samanta Sinhara is one of the finest literary works of the 18th century Odia literature. The work, in 94 chhandas, describes the love-sport of Radha and…
Swami Vivekananda 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta , was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world;and is credited with raising interfaith awareness, and bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion. Vivekananda became a popular figure after the 1893 Parliament of Religions in Chicago, where he began his famous speech with the words, “Sisters and brothers of America before introducing Hinduism to Americans . He was so…
Kabi Samrata Upendra Bhanja was a 17th-century Odia poet-composer of classical Odissi music. He is most known for his Odissi songs and kabyas written in the Odia language, primarily Baidehisa Bilasa, Labanyabati & Koti Brahmanda Sundari. The story of Labanyabati is fictional; it deals with love and the desire for union through marriage of the hero, Chandrabhanu, is the son of king Sasisekhar of Kanchi in Karnataka, and the heroine, Labanyabati (who is really a creation of goddess Parvati), is the daughter of king Ratneshwar of Singhala. Magazine Info Magazine nameLabanyabati / ଲାବଣ୍ୟବତୀEditorUpendra BhanjaNo Of pages327PublisherUpendra BhanjaPublication1939Printed AtNADistributorNA Labanyabati Sample…
Kuntala Kumari Sabat (1901–1938) was an Odia poet during colonial India. She was one of the women poets who came into prominence from Odisha during India’s freedom struggle. She was multifaceted personality. She was a physician, writer, poet, editor, leader of nationalist movement and social worker. She was honored with Utkala Bharati in 1925. This talented author’s ‘Raghu-Arakhita’ is a great novel that was especially popular at the time. Many readers still remember this life-reform novel.This novel has not been seen in a long time. We have revived the novel, which carries the core message of social reform, for countless…
The Panchasati have also been referred to as Panchakanya; they basically stand for The Five Virgins, and are typically called so because, er, they were not virgins at all, and had multiple coital partners in their lives. This is probably akin to calling Fardeen Khan an actor because he cannot act, but then, we have seen stranger things in life. The Panchasati were cool people. They apparently slept with multiple people because the society had decreed them to, not out of their own will. What the epics do not lay stress on is the fact that they had not explicitly…
Padmini, also known as Padmavati, was a 13th–14th century Rani (queen) of the Mewar kingdom of present-day India. Several medieval texts mention her, although these versions are disparate and many modern historians question the extent of overall authenticity. The Jayasi text describes her story as follows: Padmavati was an exceptionally beautiful princess of the Sinhalese kingdom (in Sri Lanka).Ratan Sen, the Rajput ruler of Chittor Fort, heard about her beauty from a talking parrot named Hiraman. After an adventurous quest, he won her hand in marriage and brought her to Chittor. Ratan Sen was captured and imprisoned by Alauddin Khalji,…
The fact that Padmamali by Umesh Chandra Sarkar, published in 1888, is the first full-lengthOriya novel is no more debated today though it is also generally accepted that the first Oriya novelist is Ramshankar Ray whose novel Soudamini was serialized in a monthly journal Utkal Madhupa in 1878 and had to be discontinued after publication of about thirty chapters due to the closure of the journal in 1880. Soudamini was designed as a historical romance and dealt with Sultan Allauddin Khilji’s invasion and seizure of Ujjain after killing the Rajput king and his wife Padmabati in the fourteenth century AD.…
Odisha formerly Orissa the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India. It is the 8th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. The state has the third largest population of Scheduled Tribes in India.It neighbours the states of Jharkhand and West Bengal to the north, Chhattisgarh to the west, and Andhra Pradesh to the south. Odisha has a coastline of 485 kilometres (301 mi) along the Bay of Bengal in Indian Ocean.The region is also known as Utkala and is also mentioned in India’s national anthem, “Jana Gana Mana”.The language of Odisha…