1. Sachidananda Routray was an Indian poet, novelist and short-story writer who wrote in Odia.
11 Facts About Sachidananda Routray
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Sachidananda Routray received Jnanpith Award, the highest literary award of India, in 1986.
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Sachidananda Routray was popularly known as Biplabi Kabi Sachi Routray.
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Sachidananda Routray married a Telugu princess from the royal family of Golapalli.
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Sachidananda Routray was involved in freedom struggle while in school.
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Sachidananda Routray started his writing career through " patheya " in 1932.
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In 1943, Sachidananda Routray became very famous among Odia readers when he published Baji Rout, a long poem that celebrated the martyrdom of a boatman boy who succumbed to the bullets of British police when he refused to take them in his rickety boat to cross the river Brahmani.
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Sachidananda Routray was a prolific poet and published as many as twenty anthologies.
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Sachidananda Routray's Pallishri, dealing with village life in Odisha, is as successful as his poem Pratima Nayak that portrays the suffering and the predicament of a city girl.
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Sachidananda Routray belonged to a group of writers who called themselves 'poets of the people'.
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Sachidananda Routray published a few poems with religion as their theme.