Pratima Nayak O Anyanya Kabita

An exponent of progressive literature in Odisha, Sachi Routray was the first poet to introduce prose verse in Odia poetry. His poems signaled the advent of a renaissance in the literary domain of Odisha. His free verse forms, his conventional imagery, his down-to-earth realism, his masterly representation of the cause of the lost and the neglected and the lowest in society made himself the harbinger of the impending spring of modernity in Odia poetry. Selected from his writings, Dr. Bhagaban Jayasingh has presented Sachi Routray's which would effortlessly touch the reader's heart and consciousness.