Oriya Poetry Translations ~ Telugu
PALANA (nparinand@cas.org)
Mon, 27 Apr 1998 23:14:10 -0400
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proddunna, EDunnara ayiMdEmO!
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proddunna EDunnara ayiMdEmO
rODDu, kalcaru lEni kAPI hOTel lA
maMdukoTTina marcaMTu nEvI kurrALLu vadilEsinaTTugA
EDustOMdi!
ikkaDa O ceMcA maMculOMci merustOMdi
akkaDa O sUdi parikiNI pIlikalalO merustOMdi!
gaDDikEM telusu
muppai dATina ammaDu EmanukuMTunnadO!
sUryuDikEM telusu
subhAs Upiritittula kEnsaru elAvuMdO!
ceTTukEM telusu
astipaMjarAlammukunE avinIti!
ittaDi bAkAkEM telusu
nIlu Atmahatya venuka suLuvaina nijamaina kAraNAlu!
bAkA mOgutOMdi
panikirAni balbu vasArAlO nIrasaMgA kAlutunnaTlu!
--Oriya Original by Soubhagya Kumar Misra
--telugu anukaraNa pAlana
Soubhagya Kumar Misra. The author of the Oriya poem was born in 1941.
A dynamic poet with a poweful pen. His poetry is highly complex but exhibits
a deep sense of awareness. He always emphasizes on modern touch. Soubhagya is
also a very good translator. He is the recipient of Orissa Sahitya Academy
Award. To his credit he has 5 anthologies of Oriya poetry. He also translated
books in other languages into Oriya. He was a delegate from India at the Iowa
Writing Program. He is currently a professor of English at the Berhampur
University (Bhanja Vihar).
Veluri gAru! This is another good one by Saubhagya. I understand that he is
still at Bhanja Vihar (the university is named after the great Oriya poet,
Upendra Bhanja). If you remember Prof. B.K. Tripathi, who was at Wisconsin U,
Madison heads the department of English at Berhampur.
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