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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BHUBANESWAR: Globally acclaimed and the first Indo-Anglian poet to receive the Sahitya Akademi Award, Jayanta Mahapatra took his last breath on Sunday evening at Cuttack, bringing an end to a ...