Romantic themes in Odisha have transformed significantly across different eras:

During the 1920s and 1930s, a pivotal romantic movement known as Sabujayuga emerged. Heavily influenced by Western romanticism and Rabindranath Tagore, writers like Kalindi Charan Panigrahi and Annadashankar Ray shifted focus toward individualism, subjective experience, and the beauty of rural Odisha.

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