ABOUT THE BOOK

Linguistic Survey of India has unambiguously declared that Oriya, amongst Indian Languages, is so rich in vocabulary that “neither Bengali nor Hindi nor Telugu can vie with it”. Naturally, therefore, Orissa’s contribution to the world of poetry has remained superb. But contribution of this book to the world of Oriya poetry would remain forever matchless.

So far poetic works depicting love between paramours have enthralled human hearts. But this book is totally different. It is a magic canvas of loyal love where spousal joy has been painted live as lucidly and elegantly as magnificent is the poet’s mother tongue Oriya.
Written in 1974, around his marriage held on 24 June 1974, the anthology begins from betrothment and proceeds through pre-nuptial and post- nuptial ecstasies captured in beautiful sonnets.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Subhas Chandra Pattanayak, Representative-in-Chief of orissamatters.com and the first online journalist of India to have acquired official accreditation, has spent every day of his four decades long career in media against misrule so that democracy may defeat plutocracy. But in the invincible solitude of his heart, he is a loving poet, whose respect for finer aspects of life has given new dimensions to creativity that has come cascading from his pen in lucid rhymes in choicest Oriya words as naturally as fragrance flows from the blossoming Jasmines in gardens of Orissa.

His translation of the Asthapadi lyrics of Sri Jay Dev into his mother tongue Oriya in ecstatic poems, used in his book “Sri Jaya Devanka Baisi Pahacha” in support of his argument that the poet was not a Baishnav saint but a practitioner and proponent of Buddhist Sahajayan, is certainly the best in this category so far.

He has a compilation of poems captioned “Ketebele Kemiti” at saubhasya.com wherein a few of his poems are placed as samples of how randomly he reacts to events of the day in cadence. This site is being updated with his various other poetic works.