Chittaranjan Misra

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Chittaranjan Misra Biography

Dr. Chittaranjan Misra has authored six anthologies of poems in Odia and two in English. He has translated Camus' novel The Outsider and four plays of Harold Pinter into Odia. He has published his poems and papers in European Connections, NOCL (USA) , Indian Literature, Kavya Bharati, Chandrabhaga, Indian Journal of English Studies, Dibrugarh Journal of English Studies, Atlantic Literary Review, Rock Pebbles, Indian Age, e-journals like Muse India, and the major journals of Odisha. He has been felicitated by several literary Institutions of Odisha like Prajantra Prachar Samiti, Cuttack Panchama Veda, Rourkela, Sandhyatara Sahitya Sansad, Dhenkanal, Abhinandanika, Puri, Utkal Cultural Association, Puri, Srikhetrashree, Puri, Satta Sahitya Samman, Koraput, Sarata Sahitya Parisad, Cuttack and Sudhanya Samman, Bhubaneswar. He has lectured as a guest speaker and resource person in many universities including the University of Jean Moulin, Lyon in France. He has translated sixteen Odia poems of contemporary Odia poets for the Translation Volume of Poetry Crossed Words published by Bhubaneswar Sahitya Samaj in 2016. He has co-edited Voyage, another anthology of contemporary Odia poems published by Bird Nest in 2017.Some of his poems have been translated into English by Padmashri Jayanta Mahapatra and Bibhu Padhi. He is a Life Member of Indian Society for Commonwealth Studies, Delhi and Utkal Sahitya Samaj, Cuttack. He has supervised research works of scholars of Utkal University at the Doctoral level and has lectured in Refresher Courses as a Resource Person. He has co-edited a collection of critical essays entitled Indian Writing in English: Odishan Contribution in 2015.In 2019 he has edited an anthology titled Resonance: English Poetry from Poets of Odisha published by Authorspress, New Delhi. His poetry collection Lies of Limerence has come out recently.He has retired as Associate Professor and Head, Department of English, B.J.B. Autonomous College, Bhubaneswar in 2019.)

The Best Poem Of Chittaranjan Misra

Mahanadi

The river never wanted to be walled.
She used to flow past Hirakud
Singing the glory of the diamond mounds.
She never wanted to be sluiced
Channelled through turbines
Churned.
She never wanted to be checked and choked
On her way to the sea.
She never wanted to drown
The gods of villages
Whose temple crests pop up
When waters of the reservoir recede.
She never wanted to turn a hill top into an island
Drive away men leaving their cattle there.
The cattle have turned wild now
Like the anger of the displaced.
She never wanted to
Enter into the hunger of furnace.

Did she ever want to
Turn her fishes into crocodiles
Rinse her wrath
On dry hot bed of sands
Along her banks
Emptied of water before reaching the ocean?

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