Pratibha Ray, Ph.D. formerly Professor in Education and Member, Public Service Commission, Odisha, is one of the leading fiction writers in India. She writes in Odia language. Her thrust being psychosocial analysis, Pratibha grapples with issues of contemporary relevance, dealing with a variety of subject matters. She tries to bring different levels of perception into one structure. Ray`s work is unsparing in its indictments of social evils, injustice and corruption in narrow lanes of power and