This article offers a comprehensive philosophical and critical reading of poet and the great Odia lyricist Dr. Panchanan Nayak's Bird (Whispers of the Wind, Melodies of the Soul), translated into English by Dr. Sonali Sahu. Rather than treating the collection merely as a volume of lyrical poems, the present study argues that Bird constitutes a sustained philosophical meditation on existence,...
This study undertakes a comprehensive philosophical and literary investigation of Ahalyā, the remarkable long poem by the eminent Odia poet Dr. Phani Mohanty, translated into English by Sonali Sahu. Rather than treating Ahalyā merely as a mythological character from the Ramayana, the poem reconstructs her into a universal symbol of human suffering, feminine consciousness, existential...
Dr. Phani Mohanty's Ahalyā represents one of the most philosophically sophisticated achievements in modern Odia poetry. Although the poem has generally been interpreted as a feminist reinterpretation of the Ramayana myth or as an exploration of gendered suffering, such readings only partially illuminate its remarkable philosophical architecture. The present study argues that Ahalyā is...