Chakrapani Parichha- A legendary Writer

KORAPUT: School libraries play a great role in building dreams in the children . And Chakrapani Parichha , the writer of more than 100 detective novels and a recognized play writer with more than 50 radio plays to his credit was born in 1974 at the age of 18 years . While recalling his childhood days Mr.Parichha who is now a school teacher in Boipariguda block of Koraput district , said that it was the little school library in his lesser known school in the same village which turned out to be instrumental in giving him a wide horizon to explore into the world of his dreams .
There were good number of books on the life of great people , novels , story books and literary magazines made available by the teachers for the children in those days , he recalled. While teachers and other elders use things like toys to divert the children from shouting and creating disturbances in the modern times , his teacher took support of books from the school library to keep them occupied , he added.
This had created more and more opportunity to read all the books in the library before writing the first detective story book “Gotiye Mrutyura Sandhanare” . He had not looked back since . While books after books got published by the publishers like Meghamala Publications from far off places , strength of readers was also growing in the region for his books . Recalling those days when the postman in Boipariguda was asking for the first book from the packet that was being sent by the publishers, he said that the postman was the first reader and a promoter of good writing among the masses .
The revolution in the literary world in the region that was brought by Mr.Parichha was like the history raised to the power of children's dream , Narayan Panda , eminent writer and literary observer from Koraput said while drawing the spirit of his words from a great Greek writer. 'Pakhi Payeen Gitotiye' , the recently published collection of Mr. Parichha's immortal poems was the imprint of such a revolution , he added.