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SHYAMHARI CHAKRA
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Anant Shukla was honoured for promoting Oriya.
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For the past 28 years, Odia Gabesana Parishad (the Institute of Oriya Studies at Cuttack), founded by Kshetrabasi Nayak, has been working for promoting Oriya language and literature. And that makes it unique from other prominent literary organisat
ions of the State. The 28th annual day celebrations was held last Sunday. Eminent writer and scholar Anant Charan Shukla was given the ‘Kshetrabasi Sahitya Vidya Puraskar’ instituted by the body in honour of its founder.
Former professor of English at the Sambalpur University, Shukla is an expert in comparative literature and aesthetics. With a number of works to his credit, both in Oriya and English, he is also the founder-editor of Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics since 1977.
His well-known works The Concept of Imitation in Greek and Indian Aesthetics and The Concept on Mimesis in Poetics, were published by Rupa & Co.
A seminar on ‘Comedy and humour in modern Oriya literature’, chaired by Baishnab Charan Samal, was also held. Mrinal Chatterjee, Associate Professor, IIMC, Sudhanshu Sekhar Pradhan of D.K. College, Jaleshwar and Sabitri Dash of Angul Women’s College deliberated on comedy and humour in poetry, prose and drama forms of literature respectively. Esana, the Parishad’s bi-annual journal, was released.
Litterateurs Hara Prasad Das, Jatindra Kumar Nayak of Utkal University and Krushna Charan Behera also spoke.
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