Bibhuti Pattnaik Bio
Bibhuti Pattnaik is a prolific writer of novels and short stories, teaches Odia literature and language in a college. The locale of his novels varies from the rural landscape to the royal palace or to the centres of modern civilization, their popularity depending mainly upon the romantic appeal. The prominent theme of his novels is often a deep emotional man-woman relationship, and varied experiences of love contribute to the intense fervour in his novels.
In every novel a tangled knot of human relationships is presented, exposing the various facets of human character, and he, adept in feminine characterization, explores the mind of woman to show her in various shades of light. Women characters like Nirupama represent the traditional Indian womanhood, whereas at the other extreme one finds Pratima Chaudhuri and Sushama representing a type of modern woman born of the new civilization in all its perversion of values.
This obsession with the false values of a philistine civilization develops morbidity syndromes, and it is reflected in individual life. The theme is movingly treated in Keshabati kanya, Ei ma ei mati” Ei mana brindabana and in many other novels. The novelist lambasts these values in Naikara nama shrabani where Chaudhuri frenziedly runs after money and the traditional family life disintegrates. In characterization, Bibhuti Pattanayak focuses on the extremes in which human nature can live.
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