Linguist Padma Shri Debiprasarna Pattanaik and eminent Odia writer Narasinha Mishra along with other luminaries have been awarded at the 120th Annual Convocation of the Utkal Sahitya Samaj.
Presenting various awards including Utkal Ratna to Pattanaik and Sukadev Sahu Upanyasa Samman to Mishra and other awards to eminent literary persons, Justice Sasikanta Mishra of the Orissa High Court said good literature can develop the society as a whole. He lauded the efforts of Utkal Sahitya Samaj for development of good literature. The meeting was presided over by Utkal Sahitya Samaj president Tarun Kumar Sahu and addressed by writer Dash Benhur.
Congratulating Narasinha Mishra, poet Hadibandhu Mishra and Mukunda Satpathy said Mishra has substantially enriched the Oriya literature by writing more than 100 novels and poetry books. etc., like “Sunya Mandapara Santha”, “Bakulbanara Radha”, “Shakuni”, “Amruta Kunda”, “Nila Janha”, “Satabdira Pralaya”, “Belabhumi” and “Milan”. In “Sunya Mandapara Santha”, which is widely discussed among the intellectuals, Mishra illustrates about the monasteries of the traditional Aryan religion, the monks of the Vedic era, all are adorned with the saints of the empty mandapa. Even today, they are the light of the unseen soul of yoga. The number of isolated religions that have taken their toll on the behaviour and pronunciation of traditional Aryan religions have rejoined that traditional stream, once they have flowed in a certain direction. Jainism and Buddhism are among them. Those Jainacharya and great Buddhist monks of the past are meditating in the meditative mandapa of the cosmos. Among the empty worships of the Bajrayani Buddhist monks, “Bajra” is the symbol of emptiness. The new religions that came to India on time are based on monotheism. They are also empty worshipers. Their places of worship are symbols of the empty mandapa.