![]() He will certainly take a place on my shelves besides the stories of Narayan. Graham Greene once said, I have read the stories of Manoj Das with great pleasure. Since 1963, he has been professor of English Literature at Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Puducherry. ![]() After a short stint as a lecturer in Christ College (Cuttack), he joined Sri Aurobindo Ashram at Puducherry. After graduating with a degree in English literature, he got a post graduate degree in English literature from Ravenshaw college. ![]() ![]() During his college ,he kept on writing and he published a novel Jeebanara Swada, a collection of short stories Vishakanyar Kahani and a collection of poems Padadhawani. He ultimately finished his graduation from Samanta Chandra Shekhar College, Puri in 1955. He was a youth leader with radical views in his college days,and spent a year in jail for his revolutionary activities.In 1959 he was an delegate to the Afro-Asian students' conference at Bandung, Indonesia.He did not complete his degree in Cuttack. He was active in student politics while studying BA in Cuttack College. He was influenced by left wing ideology in college. His first collection of short stories Samudrara Kshudha (Hungry sea) that year. He launched a literary magazine, Diganta in 1950. His first work a book of poetry in odia, Satavdira Artanada published 1949 when he was in highschool. His father, Madhusudan Das worked under British Govt. Manoj Das was born in the small coastal village of Shankari in the Balasore district of Orissa.
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