Odia Books

Durga Charan Parida was born in 1929.He did his M.A. from Santiniketan; West Bengal. A poet of post Independence odia literature, his poems composed in couplets and short stanzas, speak of his deep sense of involvement and personal love. The first collection of his poems, Indrayudha (1961), bears the imprint of his passionate love, intimacy of experience and romantic vision of life. Most of the poems included in this volume are pure lyrics and are rich in visual imagery and symbols. Primarily a lyricist, he also wrote some prose-poems in the sixties. Though he moved away from the pursuit of poetry under the pressure of his duties as Government servant, his earlier compositions bear a testimony to his romantic sensibility.