Description: This book is a collection of Odia short stories, the saga of tales spun around our life and times. The stories explore the possibilities of varied themes ranging from tender narrations to sorrow, the vagaries of nature to love and loss.
Brief description: Adyasha Das is the Amazon India bestselling author of The Chausathi Yoginis of Hirapur: from Tantra to Tourism. She is one of the contemporary Odia writers known for her insightful and colorful portrayals of life. Suffused with sensitivity, she uses words and imagery with an uninhibited freedom, modulated with quality. Her stories have a rare psychological insight and are at the same time reflective, sensuous and elegant in their observations. She is the author of poetry collections Anuchharita (Odia), Nemesis and Brass Flowers (English), apart from academic and non-fiction books.
Review Quotes:
Adyasha is a serious writer and often makes understatements to efface the intense agency she feels for suffering humanity. Bhitaraku Rasta is an effort at understanding the essence of life beyond the superficialities of post-modern nihilism.
- Dr. Prafulla Mohanty, Literary critic, writer, winner of Central Sahitya Akademi Award
In her stories, Adyasha depicts the brave defiance of angst which down the centuries have plagued mankind. She observes the inner being of her characters despite the masks put on by modern necessities. Life is a process of memory making and memories alone comprise life.
- Dr. Archana Nayak, writer, novelist, dramatist, essayist, literary critic and lyricist
Adyasha's felicity of expression is an effective tool for her stories to convey the struggles of a world that is being transformed. Suffused with sensitivity, she seems to use words, themes and imagery with an uninhibited freedom, modulated with quality.
- Dr. Basant Kumar Panda, linguist & literary critic