The Central University of Orissa (CUO), Koraput organised a second meeting of its Poetry Club at its main campus at Sunabeda on Thursday being presided over by Vice-Chancellor Prof Sachidananda Mohanty.
Mohanty emphasised upon creative endeavours of the students and faculties of different departments who recited their poems and the poems of established poets in Odia, English, Hindi and Sanskrit.
He also said poetry is the means of psychic survival and the Poetry Club of the university would be entirely committed to the inward flow of the poetic urge. He also outlined to reinvigorate a sense of poetic ecstasy in the young hearts and to foster creativity among youths. On the occasion, Prof Mohanty unveiled a book of poems titled “To Evelyn” written by Sidharth Goautam Joshi, a student of MA English.
Among others, well-known poets Ameya Bikram Nandan Bhuiyan, Swati Chatterjee and Meena Swain, CUO Hindi Department lecturer Dr Satabdi Behera, English Department Assistant Professor Sanjeet Kumar Das and Odia Department lecturer Dr Rudrani Mohanty were present.