Likhawat | Reading Modern Odisha: Jagannath, Print, Famine | Episode -08 | 31 May, 2024

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In A Time Elsewhere,  fiction and history come together in a sweeping narrative spanning fifty years to create a minutely detailed portrait of nineteenth-century Orissa. The novel revolves around the fortunes of the ruling family of Puri. The book is also an engaging portrayal of the great intellectual and cultural ferment that marked the clash of the east and the west as figures from Oriya history who played crucial roles in culture and politics during that tumultuous time are brought to life.

 

Author: Jagannath Prasad Das is an eminent poet, playwright, fiction writer and critic. His books have been widely translated into Hindi, English and other Indian languages and his plays have been performed in many languages in different parts of India.  He was a member of the Indian Administrative Service, but left it to devote himself to full-time research and writing. He is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi award and the Saraswati Samman.

 

Jatindra Kumar Nayak is an Indian translator, literary critic, editor and academic from Odisha. Nayak has translated several works of Odia literature into English, including Yantrarudha, a novel by Chandrasekhar Rath, as ‘Astride the Wheel’ for which he received the 2004 Hutch Crossword Book Award for Indian Language Fiction Translation. He also won the Katha Translation Award.

 

Presented by Dr. Gautam Choubey, ‘Likhawat’ is a show about the books of Bharat – written in many languages, published in different parts of the country, yet rooted in the singularity of Indian ethos.

Each episode of Likhawat will take up a book of national resonance and will feature a special guest who is privy to the intimate story of the book as it was imagined, written, published and read.

 

Presented by Dr. Gautam Choubey, ‘Likhawat’ is a show about the books of Bharat – written in many languages, published in different parts of the country, yet rooted in the singularity of Indian ethos.

Each episode of Likhawat will take up a book of national resonance and will feature a special guest who is privy to the intimate story of the book as it was imagined, written, published and read.

 

Anchor: Dr. Gautam Choubey, Academic, Author, Translator

Guest: Prof. Jatindra Kumar Nayak, Eminent Cultural Critic & Translator

 

Producer: Gayatri Bhattacharyya

Video Editor: Anil Burnwal

 

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