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Is there any forest where no human beings reside? There may be.Is there any forest where trees can talk, sing, listen to, laugh, cry, and offer fruits sensing one's mind? There may be.Maybe, hearing the human's footsteps, they will be silent, or else they will be quiet by the stroke of an axe.Had they had wings, the trees would have flown miles over miles, but had they had the wings, what would human beings have done? There would not have been any civilization, society, or exploitation.To the continuous exploitation, indecisive harassment, and plundering, the infinite number of documents of man's materialistic greed in the name of civilization, religion, party politics, and dumb witness is the forest. Forest is the cornerstone of human civilization.I have never seen such a tree. It may happen so that the trees may not talk to me. So, imagining such a play through direct experience may not be expected.In contemporary society, and the decline derived from that, the languor of defeat is created in the human mind. Very mysteriously, an opposite idea is made: ""Had it been so, what would have happened!"" To the artist, conscious of the situational needs, this type of idea and whim is necessary, for there is the hope that, maybe, the literature created out of this will make the people aware of, and the human civilization may sustain from the forthcoming disaster/apocalypse.

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Pramoda Kumar Tripathy (1956-2012): He was a successful Odia playwright of the postmodern era after 1980. Trained in English literature, he closely associated with the dramaturgical world and created identity. His Odia play Jeun Banastare Manisha Nahin, here translated as An Uninhabited Forest, received the Odisha Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1994 and was published in book form in 1999. Apart from writing Odia plays, he sponsored Rourkela Loka Natak Mahotsav and other play institutes. His plays were staged frequently in Rourkela, Sambalpur, Bargarh, and Baripada. His notable plays include Chau Natak, Dwitiya Mrutyu, Rajakiya, Kalapurusha, Jathara, Hanu Upadraba Sambad, Sanbalia, and Ramachandra Pheriasa. Cancer, Nishanta, Partha, Ankurodgama, Shuna Pariksha Dandadhari, Jeun Banastare Manusha Nahin, Gotie Bala Kukurara Janma Brutanta etc. Though so many plays were staged, some are yet to be staged. Sanjeet Kumar Das: Born in the Kendrapada district of Odisha, Sanjeet Kumar Das is a poet, translator, and educationist. His poetry collection, Asima Jeevan, was first published in 2021. His translation works include And the Wretched (2023), Bewildered God (2023), Salabega and Columbus (2023), Nabakalebar (2024), Waiting for Ramachandra and Sunya Purush (2024), Metamorphosis (2024), Soul of Kansa and Kokua (2023), Niranjana (2023), That Chanakya Lives (2023), Demeaned Gajapati (2024), Invincible Kharavela (2024), Amrapali (2024), Bliss of Solitude (2024). He has published one edited book, A Translingual Voyage: Select Indian Writings in English Translation. He works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, Central University of Odisha, Koraput.

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