Manoj Das
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| Native name | ମନୋଜ ଦାସ |
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27 February 1934 Sankhari, Balasore, Odisha, India |
| Occupation | Bilingual writer, columnist, editor, professor, philosopher, and student leader |
| Awards |
Padma Shri Sahitya Akademi Fellowship Saraswati Samman |
| Website | http://www.worldofmanojdas.in |
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Manoj Das (Odia: ) (born 1934) is an award-winning Indian author who writes in Odia and English. In 2000, Manoj Das was awarded with Saraswati Samman. He was awarded Padma Shri in 2001, the fourth highest Civilian Award in India for his contribution in the field of Literature & Education. Kendra Sahitya Akademi has bestowed its highest award (also India's highest literary award) i.e Sahitya Akademi Award Fellowship.
In 1971, his research in the archives of London and Edinburgh brought to light some of the little-known facts of India's freedom struggle in the first decade of the twentieth century led by Sri Aurobindo for which he received the first Sri Aurobindo Puraskar (Kolkata).
His deeper quest led him to mysticism and he has been an inmate of Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry since 1973 where he currently teaches English Literature and the Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo at the Sri Aurobindo International University.
Manoj Das was born in the small coastal village of Shankari in the Balasore district of Odisha. Since 1963, he has been an ashramite at Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry. He cites Fakir Mohan Senapati, Vyasa, and Valmiki as early influences.
He was a youth leader with radical views in his college days, playing an active role in Afro-Asian students' conference at Bandung, Indonesia, in 1959.
He edited a cultural magazine, The Heritage, published from Chennai in the 1980s. The magazine is no more in circulation.
He wrote columns on quest for finding eternal truth in common lives in India’s national dailies like The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Hindu and The Statesman.
Manoj Das is perhaps the foremost bilingual Odia writer and a master of dramatic expression both in his English and Odia short stories and novels. Das has been compared to Vishnu Sharma, in modern Odia literature for his magnificent style and efficient use of words and for the fact that, he is one of the best story-tellers in India at present times. Over the years many research scholars have done their doctoral thesis on the works of Manoj Das, P. Raja being the first scholar to do so.
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