In 2007, development economist and famine historian Stephen Devereux questioned the persistence of famine in the era of globalisation despite advancements like global food surpluses, early warning systems and far-reaching international humanitarian relief systems. Although, in conventional terms, "famine" may not precisely describe the human-induced acute starvation and malnutrition in today's world, more than a quarter-billion people still face severe hunger and malnutrition. Specific people and social groups excluded and displaced from the socio-economic institutions of society as a result of cultural hegemony are at the receiving end of this dire situation of environmental crises, political and armed conflicts, and economic downturns, leading to poverty and inequality resulting in Famine. As a discipline, anthropology is grounded in a politics that aims to secure a recognition that non-Western is as crucial an element of the human as the Western and thus is sceptical and critical of Western claims to knowledge and understanding. Anthropologists’ preoccupation with literature beginning in the 1970s and 80s has resulted in an interdisciplinary approach to the field of Ethnography in the form of Literary anthropology. This approach has been adopted to study the structure of marginalisation and entitlement profile of the pre-independence famine-affected population in relation to the ‘slow violence’ of colonial administration and postcolonial legacies on the indigenous groups through an analytical-ethnographic study of regional literature. This study undertakes an exploration of the creative literary dimension concerning famine, primarily in one of the regional Indian languages, Odia, the official language of the Indian state of Odisha, scrutinising the deep-analytical ethnographic representation of famines within the framework of literary anthropology, invoking cultural experiences for the achievement of SDG #2, Zero Hunger. The study highlights the intrinsic epistemological space between indigenous literature and ethnographic inquiry, furthering the formation of Traditional Knowledge Systems and cultural traditions.