With Jayanta Mahapatra, a poetic period passes

By Express News Service

BHUBANESWAR: Globally acclaimed and the primary Indo-Anglian poet to obtain the Sahitya Akademi Award, Jayanta Mahapatra took his final breath on Sunday night at Cuttack, bringing an finish to a legendary poetic period. He was 95.

Mahapatra was below therapy for age-related illnesses on the SCB Medical College and Hospital at Cuttack since August 4. 

Two days again, his well being situation deteriorated and he was saved below ventilator assist within the medication division of the hospital. Mahapatra suffered a mind stroke and handed away following a cardiac arrest at 9 pm.

A towering literary character, Mahapatra was probably the most widely-known poets of the trendy interval.

His poems handled all human feelings however most of it centered round human relationships. Mahapatra’s widespread poems akin to ‘Indian Summer’ and ‘Hunger’ are considered classics in fashionable Indian English Literature. In doing so, he carved a poetic league of his personal.

In 2015, protesting the rising intolerance within the nation, Mahapatra had returned his Padma Shri award which he was conferred in 2009.

Born in Cuttack on October 22, 1928, Mahapatra began his profession as a trainer in 1949 and served in varied authorities schools of Odisha earlier than retiring in 1986. He started writing poetry on the age of 38 and went on to be counted among the many three founders of Indian English poetry, the opposite two being AK Ramanujan and Nissim Ezekiel.

Mahapatra wrote 20 books of poems along with his first assortment of poems being Svayamvara and Other Poems (1971). It was adopted by different collections like Close the Sky Ten by Ten (1971), A Father’s Hours (1976), A Rain of Rites (1976), Waiting (1979), Life Signs (1983), A Whiteness of Bone (1992), Shadow Space (1997), Bare Face (2000), Random Descent amongst others. Some of his poems additionally aimed toward bringing a couple of change within the society, be it ‘Dawn at Puri’ or ‘Hunger’.

His poetry was celebrated and he was accorded many prestigious awards for his contribution within the area of literature. He obtained the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1981 and the Jacob Glatstein Memorial Award previous to that in 1975. This was adopted by the Allen Tate Prize (2009), SAARC Literary Award (2009) and Padma Shri Award (2009). In 2009, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Ravenshaw University.

Writer Sitakanta Mohapatra, who has written articles on Jayanta Mahapatra, stated the acclaimed poet immensely contributed to Indian literature, notably in English. “He was suffering for a long time and his death might have come as a relief but it is a huge loss to the country,” he stated.

Mahapatra had lately launched his biography in Odia language ‘Bhor Motira Kanaphoola’ which is extra contemplative in nature than providing anecdotes and occasions in his life, extra revelatory of the workings of a poet’s thoughts. The ebook was printed by Bhubaneswar-based Ketaki Foundation. Writer-columnist and convenor of Odia Advisory Board of Central Sahitya Akademi Gourahari Das, who attended the ebook launch occasion, stated Mahapatra was probably the most excellent figures in poetry not simply in India but in addition overseas. His poems and even translations will proceed to affect younger bards and writers, he stated.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan condoled the demise of Mahapatra.

BHUBANESWAR: Globally acclaimed and the primary Indo-Anglian poet to obtain the Sahitya Akademi Award, Jayanta Mahapatra took his final breath on Sunday night at Cuttack, bringing an finish to a legendary poetic period. He was 95.

Mahapatra was below therapy for age-related illnesses on the SCB Medical College and Hospital at Cuttack since August 4. 

Two days again, his well being situation deteriorated and he was saved below ventilator assist within the medication division of the hospital. Mahapatra suffered a mind stroke and handed away following a cardiac arrest at 9 pm.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

A towering literary character, Mahapatra was probably the most widely-known poets of the trendy interval.

His poems handled all human feelings however most of it centered round human relationships. Mahapatra’s widespread poems akin to ‘Indian Summer’ and ‘Hunger’ are considered classics in fashionable Indian English Literature. In doing so, he carved a poetic league of his personal.

In 2015, protesting the rising intolerance within the nation, Mahapatra had returned his Padma Shri award which he was conferred in 2009.

Born in Cuttack on October 22, 1928, Mahapatra began his profession as a trainer in 1949 and served in varied authorities schools of Odisha earlier than retiring in 1986. He started writing poetry on the age of 38 and went on to be counted among the many three founders of Indian English poetry, the opposite two being AK Ramanujan and Nissim Ezekiel.

Mahapatra wrote 20 books of poems along with his first assortment of poems being Svayamvara and Other Poems (1971). It was adopted by different collections like Close the Sky Ten by Ten (1971), A Father’s Hours (1976), A Rain of Rites (1976), Waiting (1979), Life Signs (1983), A Whiteness of Bone (1992), Shadow Space (1997), Bare Face (2000), Random Descent amongst others. Some of his poems additionally aimed toward bringing a couple of change within the society, be it ‘Dawn at Puri’ or ‘Hunger’.

His poetry was celebrated and he was accorded many prestigious awards for his contribution within the area of literature. He obtained the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1981 and the Jacob Glatstein Memorial Award previous to that in 1975. This was adopted by the Allen Tate Prize (2009), SAARC Literary Award (2009) and Padma Shri Award (2009). In 2009, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Ravenshaw University.

Writer Sitakanta Mohapatra, who has written articles on Jayanta Mahapatra, stated the acclaimed poet immensely contributed to Indian literature, notably in English. “He was suffering for a long time and his death might have come as a relief but it is a huge loss to the country,” he stated.

Mahapatra had lately launched his biography in Odia language ‘Bhor Motira Kanaphoola’ which is extra contemplative in nature than providing anecdotes and occasions in his life, extra revelatory of the workings of a poet’s thoughts. The ebook was printed by Bhubaneswar-based Ketaki Foundation. Writer-columnist and convenor of Odia Advisory Board of Central Sahitya Akademi Gourahari Das, who attended the ebook launch occasion, stated Mahapatra was probably the most excellent figures in poetry not simply in India but in addition overseas. His poems and even translations will proceed to affect younger bards and writers, he stated.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan condoled the demise of Mahapatra.