Bhubaneswar, August 12: Prof. Ganeshwar Mishra was not merely a savant for the pupils to sormonise in building up morale & instilling national characters within them, rather he was a critic in English literature, an avid writer, an enlightened Editor & many in one, apart from his sweet, appealing and appeasing personality.
His inherent ideology and educational philosophy what Prof. Mishra practised across his up-hill life, is nothing less than that of a great prophet.
Apart from his linguistic excellence in India and overseas as an elevated academe, Prof. Ganeshwar Mishra is yet alive overhead & heart within for his vivid repository of English & Odia Literature, especially for his socio-cultural synchonisation of contemporary Odia & English literature, for all time to come.
A panel of academicians and litterateurs’ school of thoughts underscored the miles-away creations of Prof. Ganeshwar Mishra on Sunday, on his 10th memorial day observed by ‘Sateertha’- a literary coloumn founded by the ace linguist.
Speaking on the occasion, Prof Basant Kumar Panda presented a comparative study on Prof. Mishra’s novel ‘Samudrika’ (1964) and Bengali novelist Tarasankara Bandyopadhaya’s ‘Hansuli Banker Upakatha’ (1947) and Hindi writer Phaniswar Nath Renu’s ‘Maila Anchal’ (1954). He highlighted the richness of genre in Prof. Mishra’s anthology.
Underlining the socio-cultural values in ‘Samudrika’ that’s based on the Nolias who reside in Puri predominantly depending on the sea, Dr. Panda observed that, the edict is a confluence of Odia and South-Indian culture & way of harmonious living.
Renowned litterateur Dash Benhur elaborated Prof.Mishra, as a social story-teller besides his artefacts in novel, features and ever-echoing poems.
Avid writer Chirashree Indrasingh who graced the occasion as one of the guests, urged literary institutes and linguistic entities to disseminate Prof. Mishra’s invaluable treasures among scholars & luminaries.
Meanwhile, two books, a dramatic adaptation of Prof.Mishra’s novel ‘Sakalara Muhan’ by playwright Dayanidhi Tripathy and ‘Yah Dil Ki Suno’, a translation of his select short stories in Hindi by Udayan Supakar, were released.
Among others, poet & publisher Saroj Bal, Dr Biraj Mohan Dash and members of Sateertha commemorated Prof. Mishra and shed lights on his commendable advocacy on simple living & high thinking walk of life.
