Professor Ananta Charan Sukla (also Ananta Ch. Sukla) is an eminent philosopher of art, religion and language. He is a comparative literary scholar of international repute. Sukla (born November 6, 1942) is a former professor of English and Comparative Literature at Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, Orissa, India. He is a noted alumni of Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India.
He is the founder editor of the international half-yearly Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (JCLA), a leading publication for promotion of multidisciplinary studies and researches in literary culture since 1977. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Liverpool, Cambridge, Cardiff, Lampeter, Uppsala (Sweden), Siena (Italy) and Helsinki (Finland) besides several Indian Universities. He is the honorary member of the LORO Group of Studies in Comparative Aesthetics, Italy. His numerous publications include Art and Representation (2001), Art and Experience (2003) and Art and Essence (2003), all published by the reputed Greenwood Publishing Group (Praeger Publishers), Westport, Connecticut. His highly original work, ‘The Concept of Imitation in Greek and Indian Aesthetics (1977)’ published by Rupa & Co, Calcutta is still a celebrated, authoritative and authentic text on the subject.
Sukla has lectured on aspects of Indian aesthetics vis-a-vis Western aesthetics in many European Universities such as Lampeter, Cardiff, Liverpool, Sienna and Helsinki. He has addressed several international conferences on Comparative Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art as Plenary Speaker/Chairman at Lahti (Finland), Bologna (Italy) and other reputed institutions. His most recent works are a monograph on eminent medieval philosopher of religion Sridhara Svami,and another on medieval Sanskrit poetician and grammarian Vishvanatha Kaviraja have been published by the prestigious Kendriya Sahitya Akademi, Delhi, India. He is also a highly acclaimed writer in his mother tongue, Oriya—a language of eastern India. His Oriya translation (with commentary) of four famous Greek Dramas e.g. Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus), Oedipus the King (Sophocles), Medea (Euripides) and The Frogs (Aristophanes) is a noted work in the regional language. His Oriya translation has helped promoting and popularizing the rich cultural heritage and vibrant literary tradition of ancient Greek theatre in the eastern Indian State.
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