A LIST OF ARTICLES ON SARALA MAHABHARATA

These articles deal with the creativity of Sarala as the re-teller of the canonical text and the richness and the depth of his poetic vision.

Forthcoming

“The Tribal Theme in Sarala Mahabharata”

 “Exploring the Possibilities of a Theory of Meaning for a Theory of Discourse Structure”

 “On Variations in Mahabharata”

 “Bhakti in the Times of Darkness and Bliss: A Study of Bhakti in Sarala Mahabharata” 

 “Peace or War? Remarks on the Pre-war Deliberations in Sarala Mahabharata”

(With Vikas Kumar). “Situating Sarala Das’s Mahabharata in the Story Space that is India”. Indian Literature. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi.

Published

(2020). “Explaining the Story-within-Story Structure of the Puranic Narratives in terms of a Theory of Meaning”. Konark, Vol IV: 1. pp. 165-178.

(2020). “On Bad Language (According to Sarala Mahabharata)”. Proceedings of the International Seminar on Sarala Mahabharata. Sarala Bishwabhasa Sammilani. Bhubaneswar. January 14-16.

(2019). “The Way Power Talks”. Occasional Paper -1. Bhubaneswar: Utkal University of Culture. pp. 1-16 (e-publication).

 (2018). “Bhishma in Two Episodes in Sarala Mahabharata”. Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature, Vol 54. pp. 23-34.

(2018). “Drona in the Ekalavya Episode in Sarala Mahabharata”. In Chandra, Sibesh, Vrinda Dalmiya and Gangeya Mukherji (eds.) Exploring Agency in the Mahabharata: Ethical and Political Dimensions of Dharma.  New Delhi: Routledge India. pp. 232-246.

 (2018). “Interaction between the Forest Dwellers and the Urbanites in Sarala Mahabharata and Some Select Works of Gopinath Mohanty”. The Critical Endeavour: Vol XXIV, pp. 233-243.

(2018). “On Three Women Characters in Odia Puranic Literature”.  The Critical Endeavour: XXV, pp. 259-268.

(2018) Vikas Kumar and B.N.Patnaik. “Sarala Mahabharata: Reading the Whole in the Part”. margASIA, Summer 2018. pp. 11-12.

 (2017). “Sarala Mahabharata: Eka ‘Bandi-Pratishodha’ ra Gatha”. Paurusha: 50^th year, 8^th issue. pp. 59-63. (with Vikas Kumar (first author) and Dharmapada Jena) (in Odia)

 (2017). “A Bhuta named Babana”.  In Abbi, Anvita (ed.). Unwritten Languages of India. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. (pp. 94 -105).

(2017). “Observations on an Instance of Negative Interaction in Sarala Mahabharata”. In Garg, Shweta Rao and Deepti Gupta (eds.) The English Paradigm in India. Palgrave Macmillan. (pp. 285-292). 

(2017). “Observations on Action and Its Ethicality”. In Majhi, R.C. et. Al. (eds.). Morality, Objectivity and Defeasibility. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd. (pp. 162-176).

(2017) (with Vikas Kumar, the first author). “Reading Sarala Mahabharata as a ‘dharmasastra’”. PBD Special Supplement on Sixth Anniversary. October 31.

 (2016) (with Vikas Kumar, the first author). The “Sarala Mahabharata” as a Novel “Prison- Revenge” Story. PBD. July 17, 2016.

(2014). “Arjuna’s Problem and Its Resolution in Two Mahabharatas”. Lokaratna, Vol VII. ISSN 2347-6427, pp 1-13. (E-journal) -http://www.yumpu.com/document/view/27256081/lokaratna-vol-vii

 (2012). “On the Great War in Kurukshetra in Saaralaa Mahaabhaarata”. In (Danda, A.K. and R.K.Das eds.) Alternative Voices of Anthropology. Kolkata: Indian Anthropological Society.

 (2009). “On the Notion of Progress in the Knowledge Domain of Humanities”. In Ramanan, Mohan, Panchanan Mohanty, Tutun Mukherjee (eds.). Humanities in the Present Context. Hyderabad: Allied Publishers. pp. 242-263.

(2009). “Remarks on Baabarapuri”. In Tomar Sristir Path. Kolkata: Apana Book Distributors. pp. 533-37.

 (2007). “Orwell’s Problem and Saaralaa Mahaabhaarata”. The Critical Endeavour. Vol. XIII. pp. 12-21.

Video Course

(2019) “The Tradition of Retelling of the (Vyasa) Mahabharata: An In-Depth Study of Odia Mahabharatas”. Course Duration: 10 hours (UGS in the terminology of IITs and PGs)

Prepared, in 2019, at IIT Kanpur for Swayam Prabha, free DTH Channel for Education. Telecast in January, 2020.