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India's one of the celebrated writers, Dr. Pratibha Ray's short story collection "Ketaki bana" has twenty-five magnificent short stories that would touch reader's heart instantly. Stories 'Shapya" and title story "Ketaki Bana" received New Delhi's Katha Puraskar in 1994 and 1999. "Moksha" was made a successful feature film.

Dr. Pratibha Ray's collection of stories, Transgression and Other Stories has fifteen unique stories surfing between tradition and modernity, pathos and poignant reflections to make it a stimulating collection. Pratibha, as a story teller inhabits a world which is solid, holistic and suffused with different colours of life. In this collection, stories 'The Curse" and "The Ketaki Grove" have received New Delhi's Katha Award. "Salvation" received the best regional feature film award and Transgression, the Sahitya Akademi award.

Three Maestros is the English translation of the legendary writer Pratibha Rays's Odia storybook Tini Ostad.The novella had its genesis in the bed time story-telling of the author in her role of raconteur to her three children.Three school going siblings play truant and go on a picnic to the forest, meet a dog there and an adventure unfolds which takes them through a dacoit's den, a sea voyage, landing in an unknown island, an attempt to civilise the islanders, pining for home and coming back. The novel is touched by patriotism, love of nature, love of people, compassion for animals, fellow-feeling, value of education and literacy, significance of science and technology, and a positive humanistic outlook. Like a fine book of children's literature, this illustrated book is gripping from cover to cover and has an appeal not only for the children, but for the child alive in every adult as well.

Based on folklore, legends and myths, and backed by meticulous research, Citadel of Love is set in Odisha of the thirteenth-century-considered the state's golden age, when the Konark temple was being built under King Narasimha Deva's patronage. A modern-day foreigner, Charles, arrives with his fianc e to study the Konark region. As he discovers palm leaf manuscripts and records tales that were handed down generations, he begins to have strange experiences. A woman's statue, in particular, haunts him till he is transported to a time when she was alive and the Konark complex was under construction. Two mystical love stories of the past unfold, even as new romance blooms in Charles' life. Surreal, mysterious and often bordering on the magical-real, this is a tale of passion that spans centuries.

KAYA IS THE STORY COLLECTION ORIGINALLY WRITTEN IN ODIYA BY DR. PRATIBHA RAY. THESE STORIES FOCUS ON LIFE & SUFFERING OF WOMEN IN VARIOUS PARTS OF INDIA.THESE STORIES RIGHTLY FOCUSES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL LAYERS IN HUMAN NATURE. DR.RAY PORTRAYS VARIOUS TRUE STORIES IN HER FICTIONAL WRITING.