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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was to be that monsoon’s first shower in Cuttack. On my way from Bhubaneswar, across the Mahanadi I could see the silver-grey clouds sprinkle their light on everything around. By the time I ...

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 ...