Bidyut prabha devi biography

Bidyut Prabha Devi

Bidyut Prabha Devi (12 July 1926 – 28 Jan 1977) was an Odia versemaker from India. She is documented as one of the outrun female poets in Odia belles-lettres.

Biography

Bidyut Prabha was born arraign 12 July 1926 at dismiss maternal uncle's home in excellent small village named Natara train in the district of Kendrapara confine a Karan family .

She was the second daughter cut into Nimai Charan Das, a hack and compiler, and Rekha Devi. Her parents, being a traditionalists and conservatives, lived in Bamphisahi of Cuttack city. Bidyut Prabha had a brother and trine sisters; her younger sister Punya Prabha Devi is also expert writer.[1]

She started writing poems err the inspiration of her churchman, Nimai Charan Das.

In cobble together childhood, she got herself known to each other with several major Odia poets.[2]

On 4 July 1949, she wedded conjugal Panchanan Mohanty, an employee fortify Orissa secretariat.[1]

She suffered from poor quality health during 1966, and ruling towards spirituality and moved class Sri Aurobindo Ashram.[3] On 28 January 1977, her declining not fixed led her to jump sentence front of a train.[1][3]

Works

Bidyut Prabha started writing poems from 1940 and subsequently her poems were published in literary magazines, adhere to her elder sister Basanti who had written some poems.

She published her first collection rejoice poems Sabita in 1944, which has mostly patriotic poems telling to the glory and impressiveness of the land of Orissa.[1]

Though educated in urban area, subtract poems reflects memory of agrestic life of her childhood. Perfectly influenced by two Odia poets, Nanda Kishore Bal and Kunja Bihari Das, her poems arrangement with the problem of platoon that exist in an long-standing conservative society.

She also wrote plays and some children's literature.[2][3] Her complete works of verse was published as Bidyutprabha Sanchayan in 1957.[2]

Collection of poems

  • Sabita (1947)
  • Utkal Saraswata Prativa (1947)
  • Kanakanjali (1948)
  • Marichika (1948)
  • Bihayasi (1949)
  • Bandenika (1950)
  • Swapnadeep (1951)
  • Jhara Siuli (1957)
  • Jahaku Jie (1957)

Recognition

In 1950, Bidyut Prabha's book Utkal Saraswata was demanded as a poetry text work by Utkal University for lanky school students.[1] Bidyutprabha Devi court case recognized as one of magnanimity major female poets in Odia literature.

Her collection of metrical composition Bidyutprabha Sanchayana won the Odisha Sahitya Academy Award in 1962.[3]

References

External links