Bhubaneswar, Oct. 25 -- Law and literature are two distinct and different disciplines but there is an inseparable linkage between the two, said Justice Sibo Sankar Mishra, Judge of the Orissa High Court today.
"Law is an instrument which regulates human conduct and behaviour while literature provides expression to human behavior which is a representation of law," Justice Mishra said while addressing students and faculty members of Siksha 'O' Anusandhan Deemed to be University here.
Pointing out that literature was often represented through writings, storytelling, painting and theatre, he said, "Law could be found in literature and vice versa."Citing the example of eminent novelist Fakir Mohan Senapati's magnum opus, 'Chha Mana Athaguntha'...