Check back every Tuesday for a new set of five! This week's collection includes the novels Kanakalata by Nanda Kishore Bal and Kaa by Kanhu Charan Mohanty.
Kanakalata by Nanda Kishore Bal
Substantially serialized in Utkal Sahitya in 1913, the work was compiled and published as a novel twelve years later. It portrays the evils of the dowry system in rural aristocratic society, and the predicament of the child-widows, who were condemned into a life of anguish and suffering.
Tanmaya Dhuli by Pratibha Satpathy
Translated as Tanmaya Dhuli by Rajendra Prasad Misra
A collection of poetry, it went on to win the Sahitya Akademi Award.
Rasakallola by Dinakrushna Dasa
Dasa was a part of the Bhakti movement, which comes under medieval Odia literature. This poem, his most famous work, illustrates the love story of Radha and Krishna. It consists of 34 melodious cantos, whose each line begins with the sound ‘Ka’, the first consonant in the odia language.
Kaa by Kanhu Charan Mohanty
Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award, Kaa can be translated as impersonation. The novel deals with the subject of female infertility and maternal death. It was later adapted into a film by the same name.
Abhisapta Gandharba by Mohapatra Nilamani Sahoo
Translated as Abhisapta Gandharba by Siddharth Mansingh Mahapatra
A short story compilation, whose title can be understood as 'The Cursed Gandharva', received the Sahitya Akademi Award for Odia.
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