It is being said that only early achievers gain fame in future

But this doctrine is out shadowed by people like

Jayanta Mahapatra

Jayanta Mahapatra was the first Akademi winner in English. His legacy even counts Padma Shri

for service of this art. He also won SAARC literary award

and RaedLeaf Poetry Lifetime

Achievement Award His early childhood saw poverty,

but his life shines with fame.

He is not among those who clinches this art at young age,

but his jobs are no less

Jayanta Mahapatra was born 22 October 1928 in a low middle class family. He gained early education in Cuttack and went on to gain masters degree in Physics

He started as physics teacher in various colleges in Orissa and ended career in 1986.

It is true that poetry is not a thought insisted to be writtenbut a thought that insist one to write

poetry can peep out of brain only in peace, and a stress-laden heart can never

approach to realm of it

Jayanta began to write only after entering 40’s. As mentioned earlier, it is not everyday when it happens....

But neither its is everyday, when poetry emerges

His first literary work came out in 1971 as “Svayamvara and Other Poems”being followed by “Close the Sky, Ten By Ten” in same year”

In 1976, he came up with “Father’s Hour” and “The

Rain of Rites”In same year, he went for poem

reading in four foreign universities

AND LEGACY CONTINUES

Including the very popular, A Rain of RitesHe have authored 20 books on poetry, three on prose, seven in his local dialect.

TALENT PRAISED IS TALENT ENCOURAGEDAND OPPOSITE OF SAME LEAD TO PERISH

day began with flake of shiverand creator of day is in the skylet pyres of last dusk be forgotten by alland let our smile out shadow our cry

let a chant be on our lipsand altogether we sing a rhyme the era changes like a flick of coinbut our gleam shouldn’t change with time

Keep Smiling and a huge thanx