Scent of Rain is about remembering Jayanta Mahapatra, and his ‘relationship’ with the world of poetry; it’s a mesmeric parable of remembrance, a lushly physical, sensual and spiritual journey between ...

I never got to meet Jayanta Mahapatra, and am a little cut up about it. As, too, I never got to meet Arun Kolatkar, whose poems got me writing poems, and who died over two decades earlier. Kicked the ...

Jayanta Mahapatra rarely left his hometown of Cuttack. But, his poetry has travelled far. The first Indian poet to win the Sahitya Akademi Award for English poetry, Mahapatra played a significant role ...

toward this visionary part of one? — From 'Relationship' by Jayanta Mahapatra. How does one describe the corpus of a poet about to turn 95? How does one describe the span of his life by a ...

Eminent poet Jayanta Mahapatra passed away at a hospital in Odisha's Cuttack on Sunday, his family members said. He was 95. Mahapatra, who was admitted at the SCB Medical College Hospital for ...

Jayanta Mahapatra, born in Cuttack into an ordinary middle-class Hindu family, converted to Christianity due to poverty. A college Physics teacher, he started writing poetry at 40 when many poets quit ...

Hi, JM, good morning! Whassup? Yo, morning, beautiful! Birds are singing in the bamboos. Had coffee? Yes, and hot hot vadas too, JM. Yippie, love hot vadas! Sounds pretty much like two teenagers ...

Internationally acclaimed poet Jayant Mahapatra has decided to return his Padamashree award in protest against the growing "moral asymmetry" in the country. I have expressed my desire to the President ...