Odia Poet Sitakant Mahapatra Wins Tagore Peace Award
Eminent Odia poet Sitakant Mahapatra will be conferred with the prestigious Tagore Peace Award. He is the first Odia to win this prestigious international peace prize, which has been established by the Asiatic Society.
A Parliament act has declared the Asiatic Society, founded in 1784, as an institution of national importance. “I am very happy to be chosen by the society for the prestigious award,” Mahapatra, author of many anthologies of poems, said.