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In 1932, in the Kendrapara district’s Shyamsundarpur, the great academician Mohanty was born. He received his early education at Cuttack’s illustrious PM Academy. He also finished his education at Ravenshaw College, Leeds University in the UK, and Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages in Hyderabad. Before moving on to teach at BJB College, Bhubaneswar, Sambalpur University, and Utkal University, where he eventually left in 1992, English professor Mohanty began his career as a lecturer at Ravenshaw Colleg. For his work on the Odia poem “Suryashnata,” he was awarded the 2003 Central Sahitya Akademi Award, which established him as a…

The renowned academician Mohanty was born in Shyamsundarpur in the Kendrapara district in 1932. He acquired his early education at the renowned PM Academy in Cuttack. In addition, he completed studies at Leeds University in the UK, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages in Hyderabad, and Ravenshaw College. The English professor Mohanty began his career as a lecturer at Ravenshaw College before moving on to teach at BJB College, Bhubaneswar, Sambalpur University, and Utkal University, where he eventually resigned in 1992. He got the 2003 Central Sahitya Akademi Prize for his work on the Odia poem “Suryashnata,” which made…

Jatindra Mohan Mohanty, who retired as Professor of English, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, writes frequently in English and Oriya, and is acknowledged as a foremost literary critic in Oriya literature. His book of literary criticism in Oriya, entitled Suryasnat received (Central) Sahitya Akademi Award in 2003. His other books in English related to Oriya literature are, There Where Trees Flower(1987), Into Another Intensity (1989), Madhusudan Rao(1996), Along The Stream (1999), Land Beautiful : On Orissan Culture (Ed. 2001) and Tradition and Creativity (2003).He is currently engaged in preparing a complete anthology of 600 years of Oriya literature of which 5 volumes…

The renowned academician Mohanty was born in Shyamsundarpur in the Kendrapara district in 1932. He acquired his early education at the renowned PM Academy in Cuttack. In addition, he completed studies at Leeds University in the UK, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages in Hyderabad, and Ravenshaw College. The English professor Mohanty began his career as a lecturer at Ravenshaw College before moving on to teach at BJB College, Bhubaneswar, Sambalpur University, and Utkal University, where he eventually resigned in 1992. He got the 2003 Central Sahitya Akademi Prize for his work on the Odia poem “Suryashnata,” which made…

Tradition and Creativity’contains 17 essays written on different occasions on different aspects of Oriya literature. Oriya language is not only one of the major languages of India, but its literature is one of the richest and most ancient, that has registered a continuous growth and development for the last about 600 years, and particularly for the last about 130 years, it has grown at par with other Indian literatures as a direct product of Western education, on the whole a complete and multifaceted growth. So also its post Independence literature shares its many dimensions and visions with other post Independence…

Land Beautiful is a collection of 15 essays on different aspects of Orissan culture, and written by people who are specialised in their fields. It is the first such book in English in a convenient and easily accessible format. The Oriyas as a nation have lived more or less contiguously for more than last 2000 years, and because of Orissa’s special geographical location on the eastern sea-coast of India it has, on the one hand, remained immuned to or has responded laterly to many changes and developments that have taken place elsewhere in India; and on the other, functioned as…

This anthology has been prepared mainly for educational purposes,yet fundamentally it has the aim of all good literature,that is, to delight the readers and expand their understanding in matters of mea and manners, The important authors collected here speak for themselves. Beginning from such masters like Tolstoy and Chekov and through Conan Doyle, O’Henry and Lawrence we come to such perceptive writers like Hemingway and Mansfield. The only Indian who has been chosen to give company to these western authors is R. K. Narayan who not only belongs to our time but is probably one of the finest Indian writers…

The renowned academician Mohanty was born in Shyamsundarpur in the Kendrapara district in 1932. He acquired his early education at the renowned PM Academy in Cuttack. In addition, he completed studies at Leeds University in the UK, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages in Hyderabad, and Ravenshaw College. The English professor Mohanty began his career as a lecturer at Ravenshaw College before moving on to teach at BJB College, Bhubaneswar, Sambalpur University, and Utkal University, where he eventually resigned in 1992. He got the 2003 Central Sahitya Akademi Prize for his work on the Odia poem “Suryashnata,” which made…

‘There is a tendency among many teachers of English abroad,especially in Europe and the British Commonwealth, to as sume that English is studied chiefly as a means of becoming acquainted with the life, literature and institutions of the English-speaking peoples. Hence a strong tendency among teachers and textbook writers to try to give a British or an American background to their teaching by providing ‘tealia’ and by introducing their pupils as soon as possible to great English literature. This attitude is, of course, exceilent in the right en- vironment. A knowledge of the life, literature and institutions of another country…

‘King Lear’ was first printed in 1608, in the First Quarto edition, and First Folio edition came out in 1623 (F),.Between the two it is supposed that the Folio text is not only more accurately printed, but also much nearer to what Shakespeare wrote, than that of the Quart. The present text is based on Arden Edition edited by Kenneth Muir, which is based on F. The play was probably first performed early in 1605, with Burbage in the title role.and Armin as the Fool, Since then it has a chequered stage-history. In the recent times the great Shakespearean actors…