“Smooth crimson of love and life! With the treasures of life and the measures of love; to bath the path of the truth with righteous works. The floating mind of Madam Namita Rani Panda! A Slice of Sky with her muse; a slice of the sky with her POETRY!! A warm embrace of the truth with her works. Read her poems and be touched with her lovely heart of love and life; with the romance of nature.”

– Edward Kofi Louis (Bard/Artist ) Accra, Ghana

“No words of mine can appropriately express the greatness of Mrs Namita Rani Panda and her craft as a poet. Her anthology A Slice of Sky is impregnated with such tenderness and warmth stemming from her beautiful thoughts and innermost feelings that each poem is irresistibly captivating. A poem of hers is most often a cool balm for a wounded heart. Poems like Drop of Tear, My Echo, My Mute Words, You-2, Love from Heaven can never be forgotten. After reading her poems, I felt like someone tortured on a steamy summer day taking a much-needed plunge in a cool calm transparent pool. Great, fantastic, brilliant etc are the words one might use to praise her creations. However, I call them the sweetest.”

– Chittaranjan Dash, Programme Officer, INSERURP,
an Indian story writer and poet in English

Mrs Namita Rani Panda, M.Phil (English), M.Ed., is a poet, story writer and translator from Sambalpur district of Odisha, India. She now works as Vice-Principal of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Cuttack under the Ministry of HRD, Dept. of School Education and Literacy, Govt. of India. NVS, RO, Bhopal has conferred on her Academic Excellence Award 2017 for her outstanding performance as a subject teacher. Her voice is crystal clear and straight forward in most of her works. She proclaims boldly against social injustices and inequalities. She glorifies universal brotherhood, sense of patriotism, love of live and Nature and peace. She chooses subjects from varied avenues with a strong feministic touch with simple and lucid style. Each of her poems exposes to the readers to a different view point of life. What is more important is her rhythm and rhyme that flows naturally from her powerful pen like a perennial river, maybe because of her close association with the language as a language teacher. She has two solo anthologies to her credit: Blue Butterflies and Rippling Feelings. Her poems are highly acclaimed in many National and International magazines and journals. Her signature words are love and optimism which can be felt in most of her creations. She is an active member of Cosmic Crew, a literary group of women poets in Odisha working with the motto “My pen for the world.” She is also a regular contributor to the online poetry site poemhunters.com.