What Is In Jayanta Mahapatra's Relationship? Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Jayanta Mahaptra's Relationship is a story of relationship
With Odisha, the land of his birth and nativity,
The place where he was born,
Where he roamed,
Enjoyed his childhood,
Lived with
To allude to and reminisce
And recollect
In his leisurely hours
Of visionary glides and dreamy flights.

There is nothing as that to explain and paraphrase,
But the myth and mystery of the land,
The beauty of his brooding
And the mythical strides
That he takes,
The flimsy style he is famous for
Photographing, lighting and shading,
Presenting poetry as silhouettes,
Negatives and washed photographs.

The starting part picturesque of the rocks
and the vultures sitting upon
And the Shiva-lingams foreboding
Just visualize the dream
That he sees
With references to Kalingan history,
The victory of Ashoka
And the slaughter of the Odias
That he talks of
And in the midst of all this
History, art and cutlure
He describes Odisha and the Odias.

As Rupert Brooke tells of his motherland
In The Soldier
So is the case of Mahapatra here,
Relationship is a booklet,
A long poem of Odisha and the Odias
In a visionary style,
A dreamy presentation,
Mahapatra only drifts and drifts,
Glides and glides
To clutch along pictures,
First an Odia then an Indian
Applies in truly here.