Poetry always serves the twin purpose of offering entertainment through aesthetic delight, blissful emotional portrayal and at the same time emitting the glow of enlightenment, intellectual discourse, moral, cultural concerns focusing on socio-political issues.

This Poetry Collection “The Rainbow of Clouds” contains the poems reflecting the desire to understand the fragments of human experience that embody the love, loss, emotion, passion, aberration, feeling, sentiment, faith, doubt, time, transition, hope, anxiety, agony, anguish and many more.

The poems in this Poetry Collection do not claim to resolve life’s dilemmas but listen to them intently and depict the intangible elements such as fleeting emotion, sudden illumination, spiritual bliss, resilience that help wriggle out of the whirlpool of crisis and return to the mainstream.

Re-reading Jayanta Mahapatra is a selection of the seminal poems of poet Padmashree Jayanta Mahapatra, meticulously selected by Indian English poet Professor Nandini Sahu, with a long critical introduction by her. The book highlights the quality of tranquility and quietude about his poetry, and celebrates the nostalgic elements of Mahapatra’s poetry. While the book hardly confines him as a ”Romantic’, as he is not prepared to accept the capability of romantic imagination-the book problematizes Mahapatra’s dismissal of the term ‘romantic’ vis-à-vis himself. . Nandini argues, his poetry reveals a self that is secluded and withdrawn, but it is romantic to the core. Mahapatra began his poetic career as a poet of love. His earlier poetry tried to capture the multiple facets of love, so as to relate it to the redolent conformation of life. Even if Mahapatra is ‘rueful’ about his beginning as a love poet, yet it is through his love poetry that he could learn how to establish a rapport with the cultural tradition in his later poetry. Nandini venerates his poetry; as a fellow poet herself, she is proud of belonging to the historiography of Indian English poetry that Mahapatra shaped. His poetry has been the poetry of departure into the self, like a Pantheist, where it is unadorned, moving and still, sans pretense and insincere masks.