A series of standalone stories featuring a precocious young boy from provincial Odisha, Pattanaik’s The Life and Times of Banka Harichandan delicately maps the contours of growing up. The bookis not children’s literature per se.
Growing Travails
Satabhisa Nayak
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BANKA HARICHANDAN by By Dipti Ranjan Pattanaik. Translated from the original Odia by Himansu S. Mohapatra Yoda Press and Simon & Schuster India, 2023, 233 pp., INR 399.00
April 2024, volume 48, No 4