Successful Engagement through Art, Culture, and Literature since 2019
The Trust has been dedicated to exploring the notions and dilemmas of contemporary visual culture by fostering a dynamic and vibrant environment for experimentation and creativity. In addition to organizing regular events, the Trust has also extended support to those in need. For example, financial assistance was provided to an artist for cancer treatment, and a young tribal talent from the rural district of Angul was identified, nurtured, and supported with training, guidance, and financial aid.
Ketaki Foundation Trust
To preserve Art, Culture and Literature of Odisha at the national level and to facilitate the placement of the artist’s work in public collections, promote public awareness of artist life and work through scholarly research and documentation, exhibitions, publications and educational and collaborative projects to carry out research of the history of art, craft, culture, architecture for the education, art awareness and betterment of society.
Documentary on Jayanta Mahapatra
Jayanta Mahapatra, basically an English poet from Odisha, turned to Odia and produced around a dozen books of poems in Odia. Although he continued to write in English, which numbers as good as 20 volumes, he wrote his autobiography in Odia titled Bhor Motira Kanaphula.
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Sakhinata
by Dinanath Pathy | March 2016
Sakhinata, the dance of sakhipilas, pre-puberty boys dressed as girls is a prominent dance style of eighteenth and nineteenth century Orissa.1 It is largely musical, gestural, and acrobatic. It suffered ignominy in the last part of the twentieth century and was branded erotic and voluptuous with corrupting southern read more
Noon: New and Selected Poems by Jayanta Mahapatra
Review by Rachita Swain | May 2024
Jayanta Mahapatra was prescient before his passing, last year, at the age of ninety-five: “So it’s here / with all those dead, refusing to die, / the dignity of bone holding aloft our will to be.” Lines like these equip us with an empath’s vantage, opening up passages to his poetic impulse. For over half a century, his read more
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