Sabitapaeen Kabita
Linguistic Survey of India has unambiguously declared that Oriya, amongst Indian languages, is so rich in vocabulary that "neither Bengali nor Hindi nor Telugu can vie with it".
Naturally, therefore, from Buddhist mystic songs to Sarala Das' Mahabharata to Upendra Bhanja's Riti Kavyas to Ramakant Rath's Sriradha, Orissa's contribution to the world of poetry has remained superb. But contribution of this book to the world of Oriya poetry would remain forever matchless.
So far poetic works depicting love between paramours have enthralled human hearts. But this book is totally different. It is a magic canvas of loyal love where spousal joy has been painted live as lucidly and elegantly as magnificent is the poet's mother tongue Oriya.
Written in 1974, around the poet's marriage (held on 24 June that year) the anthology begins from betrothment and proceeds through prenuptial and postnuptial ecstasies captured in beautiful sonnets.
