Author Anita Agnihotri’s next to be based on Mahanadi

New Delhi, Feb 9 : Author Anita Agnihotri has revealed to KLF Bhava Samvad, Kalinga Literary Festival’s virtual platform, that her next book will be ‘A Day In The Life Of Mangal Taram’ On February 6, during the virtual interaction with Trisha D. Niyogi, director Niyogi Books, Agnihotri revealed that her next will be based on Odisha’s lifeline River Mahanadi.
She talked about her journey with short stories mentioning, “As a child I grew up reading short stories of Rabindranath Tagore and Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay.
“The short stories of Tagore beautifully talk about the rural countryside and rural people. The traditional writing about rural life is not new in Bengal.” “I am often asked by my readers that if I return back to Kolkata and do what I intended on doing, that is, teaching Economics in University of Kolkata, then what my writing would have been like?” She calls it a hypothetical question.
“I suddenly feel reading of economics did help because the understandings of the economy apart from the social aspects of economic life,” she commented.