Interview With Jayanta Mahapatra

What have they to ask and to question If they want to hear the all from Jayanta Mahapatra Rather than saying themselves, Basking in his sunshine. Sir, how are you, What are the books you have authored, How do you get the materials from, How could you write in English a student of physics? Where did you do your schooling from, Your college education, What is your first poem, What is your first collection? Who has influenced you, Have you not Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley, Do you admire Eliot, spender and Auden Or Mare and Masefield? Do you know I too write poetry in English, Will you write the foreword to my first book of poems, Will you like to comment on my poetry, May I recite a poem of mine before you? The last not the least, will you pose For a photograph with me please, I shall keep up with me, which I shall be highly thankful to you?