Ratha Yatra

Subas Pani is an author, translator, composer and creative director. A retired civil servant with a PhD on Jayadeva's Geetagovinda, he has given running commentary on the Ratha Yatra for the national and international channels of Doordarshan, the national television broadcaster of India, for more than two decades. His publications include Orissa: Her Monuments and Their Tales, Palm Leaf Paintings of Orissa: A Selection from the Orissa State Museum, Jagannatha Consciousness (ed.), Balasore, its Historical & Cultural Heritage (ed.) and Blue Hill: Hymns to Jagannatha (English verse translations from Sanskrit and Odia). His travel articles have appeared in Swagat and Namaskar. He has authored two seminal works in Odia: Sampoorna Geetagovinda and Daru Brahma: Sri Jagannatha Bhajana Sudhasindhu, and composed music for two major compilations of the same name, as well as a single CD titled Jagannathah Swami.