Historical fictions and narrating the historical facts through creative nonfiction are different concepts, as in the former the details are fictionalised with the imaginative dialogues and events and in the later the historical facts are presented in a creative way that does not affect or disturb the authenticity of the facts. Here the epithet "Creative" refers to the use of literary techniques and novelistic narrative modes to tell the "true stories" or the factually accurate prose and does not mean the narration of imaginary events and the nonexistent things1. It is true that history in an objective way details the significant events with utmost exactness. So the question comes while narrating the history in a creative way will not the creative process interfere with the facts? Again, in the process of analysis and interpretation of facts to narrate, the personal ideological bias of the author may be implicitly present in the text and the narrative takes the way as the author intends; for which the reliability on the factuality of the presented facts will be in doubt. The central concern of this paper is to study J P Das's A Time Elsewhere to explore how the cultural history of Orissa has been presented with factual accurateness of events, creativity and the cardinal principles of History writing, moreover to study the aforementioned writing as creative nonfiction
