He was a wise and compassionate man, a man of peace, who thought of no one as his enemy, and had no desire for kingship. Yet that very embodiment of virtue chose to go to a conclusive war against his cousins. Why, asked a young Odia writer and scholar, who does not want to be …
TALK ON GREAT INDIAN EPICS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_A0aVtDIoo#action=share Talk at International Seminar held on 15th-16th Feb at JNU on Great Indian Epics.
AADI KAVI SARALA AND HIS MAHABHARATA
(A SUMMARY OF IDEAS FOR A WELL-WISHER, WITH RESPECT) “Sudra muni” Sarala Das, who belongs to the fifteenth century, is celebrated as the first major poet, the aadi kavi, of Odia literature. To him can be traced the origin of the puranic literature in Odia and no one’s contribution to this genre is richer and …
Sarala Mahabharata 