Kabi O Kabita

Kabi O Kabita (Poets and Poetry) is a collection of commentaries and essays on select Odia poets and their poetry by Dr. Mayadhar Mansinha (also written as Mansingh) a poet and litterateur in his own right. Odia the language of some 44 million people residing in Odisha State India. Odia and Odisha has a long heritage of culture and the written arts. This compilation of 20 essays is but a sample of the riches of Odia literature. There are essays and commentaries on noted poets of Odisha ? Gopala Krushna Radhanatha Madhusudana Gangadhara Nanda Kishora Kuntala Kumari Gopabandhu Nilakantha Godabarisha and Padmacharana. Two poets not from Odisha also make the list; their poetry belongs to the whole world Rabindranath and Shakespeare.