Odiya-In Translation
By Dipti Ranjan Pattanaik. Translated from the original Odia by Himansu S. Mohapatra
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.
Reviewed by: Satabhisa Nayak