"Jagadish Mohanty (17th February 1951-29th December 2013) was a renowned Odia writer considered as a trendsetter in modern Odia fiction, has received the prestigious Sarala award in 2003, Odisha Sahitya Akademi award in 1990. He was born in Gorumahisani iron mines area, Odisha. As his wife, it is my responsibility to make his stories reach more and more readers. All stories in this collection were written between 1970 and 80. The title story South-Facing Home was published in 1976 in a journal and gained huge readership and ...
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"Jagadish Mohanty (17th February 1951-29th December 2013) was a renowned Odia writer considered as a trendsetter in modern Odia fiction, has received the prestigious Sarala award in 2003, Odisha Sahitya Akademi award in 1990. He was born in Gorumahisani iron mines area, Odisha. As his wife, it is my responsibility to make his stories reach more and more readers. All stories in this collection were written between 1970 and 80. The title story South-Facing Home was published in 1976 in a journal and gained huge readership and popularity. Most of his stories were experimental and philosophical. The language of his stories was poetic and lucid"--
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