Manoj Das was an Odia and English author from India.Manoj Das received the Saraswati Samman in 2000. He received the Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest Civilian Award, in 2001, and the Padma Bhusan, India’s third-highest Civilian Award, in 2020, for his contributions to Literature and Education.The Sahitya Akademi honour Fellowship was granted by Kendra Sahitya Akademi, India’s top literary honour.
Das was born in the little seaside village of Balasore in the state of Odisha. Madhusudan Das, his father, worked for the British government. He had begun writing at a young age. Satavdira Artanada, a volume of poetry in Odia, was released in 1949, when he was in high school. In 1950, he founded Diganta, a literary magazine. In 1951, he graduated from high school. That year, he published his first collection of short stories, Samudrara Kshyudha (Hunger of the Sea). While pursuing BA at Cuttack College, he was involved in student politics. In college, he was a student leader with radical ideals, and he spent a year in jail for his revolutionary actions.
He attended the Afro-Asian students’ meeting at Bandung, Indonesia, in 1959. In Cuttack, he did not finish his degree. He eventually graduated from Samanta Chandra Shekhar College in Puri in 1955. During his undergraduate years, he continued to write and wrote Jeebanara Swada, a collection of short stories Vishakanyar Kahani, and Padadhawani, a collection of poems. He received a post-graduate degree in English literature from Ravenshaw College after graduating with a degree in English literature. He joined Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry after a brief stint as a lecturer at Christ College (Cuttack). He has been a professor of English Literature at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education in Puducherry since 1963.
Book Info
| Book name | Indonesiya Anubhuti / ଇଣ୍ଡୋନେସିୟା ଅନୁଭୂତି |
| Author | Monoj Das |
| No Of pages | 174 |
| Publisher | Janashakti Pustakalaya |
| Publication | 1000 |
| Printed At | Prabhati Press |
| Distributor | NA |