Guruprasad MohantyGuruprasad Mohanty (1924) is arguably one of the most powerful and influential poets of the 1950s of India. Born In a nondescript village to a prominent family of Odisha, he completed his higher education in English literature. He is acknowledged as he foremost modern Odia poet who forged a new poetic idiom to express an overwhelming sense of a malaise of despair and cynicism that had set in post-independence Odisha, India. Guruprasad has written only sixty-eight poems, including ten sonnets which are scattered in only three exiguous volumes of poetry: Nutan Kavita, Samudrasnan and Ascharya Abhisar. Recipient of Sahitya Akademi award for poetry, he served as the Principal of a premiere government college of Bhubaneswar before his retirement and death in 2004. Read More Read Less