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An academician and writer, Dr Pratibha Ray is an eminent fiction writer of contemporary India. She was born on January 21, 1943, at Alabol, a remote village in the Balikuda area of Cuttack district in Odisha. From her childhood she was fascinated towards writings. Her father Parshuram Das gave up a lucrative job in the Tata Iron and Steel Company and joined as the first Head Master of Balikuda High School to educate the people to help them realise the significance of freedom struggle. Her mother Manorama Devi was a housewife and at the same time was associated with social service. Pratibha had her schooling in Balikuda High school. Her father wanted her to be a doctor and a poetess like Utkal Bharati Poetess Dr Kuntala Kumari Sabat but Pratibha wanted to be a writer. Therefore she left her medical college soon after the admission and without the knowledge of her father started studying Botany at Ravenshaw College in Cuttack. This daring and bold step of her was a far imag...

An Oriya Author equally famous in English literature is  Manoj Das  (1934) , an Indian award-winning author who writes in Oriya and English with same excellence. Manoj Das is internationally recognized and is the recipient of many prestigious awards like the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Padmashri and the Saraswati Samman. He has columns in India’s national dailies like The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Hindu and The Statesman. His writings, revealing the deeper truth and the untraced aspects behind current issues, have been highly appreciated.Manoj Das was born in a small coastal village named Shankari in Balasore district of Orissa State. Since 1963, he has been an ashramite at Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. Manoj Das is currently an English professor at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry. He is presently concentrating on writing novels. Manoj Das is perh...

Sahil Kumar das one of Orissa’s youngest researchers. He was born in Andhra Pradesh. But his family was leave in Orissa . He was born 10 January, 1998. He lived in a small village Hirapur of Orissa. His village is near Orissa’s Bhubaneswar. But the most surprising thing is that his age is only 19-years old, and he has reached the peak of success in just 19-years. If his family is talking then he is from a middle class family. Sahil was very bright and brilliant student since childhood. From childhood, a different glow of talent can be seen in his face. Since childhood his music was poetry and interest in the stories. He has been rewarded many times for writing good poetry from school. Apart from the school, not only school, he is also rewarded at Block Level, District Level and State Level just because of his poems.  Most of the time he spent studying and doing research. Because he believes that education is most powerful weapon in the world. He wrote the many books such ...

Nikhil Mohan Pattnaik is an Indian scholar, scientist, and science author.  He obtained a PhD from the University of Chicago in Biochemistry.  Pattnaik was born in Cuttack in the Indian state of Odisha. Pattnaik was married to Pushpashree Pattnaik.  Pattnaik traveled to Chicago for research at the University of Chicago. He worked with activity-based science education and extracurricular science activities with studies and research in political realism, youth based scientific research, and building science related educational systems. He worked as a Biochemistry research scientist until 1991.  In 1984 Pattnaik returned to Odisha and he started working with Eklavya foundation and Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad. He launched “Bharat Gyan Bigyan Jatra”, a campaign with the theme ‘people’s science’ using folk art as the medium to simplify science.  Pattnaik obtained Master of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and PhD from University of Chicago,...

Born: March 14, 1879  Ulm, Germany  Died: April 18, 1955  Princeton, Massachusetts  German-born American physicist and scientist The German-born American physicist (one who studies matter and energy and the relationships between them) Albert Einstein revolutionized the science of physics. He is best known for his theory of relativity, which holds that measurements of space and time vary according to conditions such as the state of motion of the observer. Early years and education Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany, but he grew up and obtained his early education in Munich, Germany. He was a poor student, and some of his teachers thought he might be retarded (mentally handicapped); he was unable to speak fluently (with ease and grace) at age nine. Still, he was fascinated by the laws of nature, experiencing a deep feeling of wonder when puzzling over the invisible, yet real, force directing the needle of a compass. He began play...

Radhanath Ray was the famous poet of Orissa. For his contribution to Oriya Literature he was honored with the title ' Kabibar '. Radhanath Ray had written many poetries many of which have remained in the top of the golden collections of Oriya literature. Some of his poetries are so famous that people of new generation also know about them and remind those creations.  Radhanath Ray was born on September 28, 1848 in the village Kedarpur of Balasore district, Orissa. During his study, he showed his talent and interest in Oriya literature. During early days of his writing career, he wrote both in Bengali and Oriya language, but after sometime, he focused on Oriya literature only and started writing in only Oriya language. When he was only 18, he wrote a book with collection of some poetries 'Kabitabali' in Bengali. Radhanath Ray always tried to make the Oriya literature popular through his work. He opposed the use of Bengali text books in schools of Orissa and su...