Relevance of Fakir Mohan Senapati’s Children Literature In the Present Context: An Overview

Abstract

Children have a unique perspective to look at the world. Their learnings and their experiences often give a new direction to the literature produced for them. They through challenges to the literary world to come up to a level where they can be comfortable and they can utilize their world of imagination to the best of effects to enjoy a literary piece meant for them. Children literature is often produced by adult with an assumption to touch the aesthetics of the target audience. In most of the cases this type of literature is meant to give a message or educative purpose. Children today are smarter than they were before. For today’s children the condition is totally different. They are exposed to various advanced systems of entertainment with a gentle touch on the screen. To get them back to reading is a tough task. In such a challenging situation we can turn to the masters of the art of story-telling. Fakir Mohan Senapati, the grand master of story telling has created a few powerful and enchanting pieces of Children literature in form of poems. Just like his timeless novels in Odia language, his children literature has a special appeal. The precious pieces can lead the literary world of the present day to approach the target audience in the best possible way. The present paper tries to study the children literature produced by Fakir Mohan in the present context.