Pratibha Ray has written a brilliant novel around the fascinating character of Draupadi. In the novel, Draupadi not only remains anchored in the epic but also rises out of its pages to become our contemporary and extremely relevant to our times

-- Sitakanta Mohapatra, Eminent Jnanpith & SA Award winner Indian Poet

Without raising slogans or indulging in clinches, Ray makes us intensively aware of the psychosocial dimensions of relationship in her stories and novels. The depth and diversity of her characters and the intricacies and dialectics of their relationship in an insensitive society driven by a rigid moral code make us sit up and review many of our customs and conventions. Mixing elements of social satire, psychological study and pathos, Ray explores the tangled emotions and allegiances that are the fabric of Indian family life

-- Aruna Sitesh, Eminent literary critic, professor of English, Principal, Indraprasth College, Delhi University.

Among the contemporary fiction writings from Orissa,Pratibha Ray id the bes known voice. She is one of the major fiction writers in India also. Ray excels in the leisurely unfolding of the drama and human emotions inher short story and novels. In most of such tales, the actual “event”, “happening” or plot plays a subordinate role. The focus of attention in the bulk of these realistic works in not on the “happening” though there is the inevitable tour de force in many novels especially in short stories, as in the best of Chekhov or O Henry

-- Sachidananda Mohanty, Academic, Critic,Translator, Professor of English at the University of Hyderabad.

The novel “Magnamati” creates the poetry of the earth in the language of the fisher folk of Erasama. The unsophisticated and colloquial vocabulary is woven into a new paradigm of life where the rivers, trees, fish, nets, rituals and pain, hunger horror and helplessness intone the native language of the earth. Magnamati is, perhaps, the greatest earth novel written in any language in the world and by God, it is a masdterpiece

-- Prof. Prafulla Mohanty, Sahitya Akademi award winning literary critic, Retd. Professor in English anda creative writer, on Magnamati (Tranced Earth)