PADMASHREE Dr. SATYANARAYANA RAJGURU
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#birthanniversary
Some men are born great, while some achieve greatness during their lifetime.
* Dr. Satyanarayana Rajguru was a man of multidimensional character. He was a poet, a writer, a dramatist,
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a stage director, an actor, a freedom fighter, a linguist, an orator, a great historian and a research scholar. He started education at the age of five. From his childhood he was a man of independent mind.
Though a meritorious student, he could not be qualified in the
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the matriculation examination, intentionally. However, he passed the Oriental Title Examination in "Odia & Sanskrit' from the Andhra University. In the year 1929 he worked as the Manager of the 'Parala Padmanabha Rangalaya' and entered in to the field of ttheater during 1935.
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He took active part in the 'Utkal Sameemani'& 'Odia Rakshya' and helped Sri Krushna Chandra Gajapati in the formation of 'Utkal Pradesh'. He will be remembered for his thesis presented before the State Re-organisation Commission. He was the President of Ganjam
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District Education Council from 1942-1945. In the year 1946, he joined as an assistant in the Kalinga Historical Research Society at #Bhawanipatana. He worked as Curator in the Orissa Museum from 1950-1961 and an Epigraphist from 1963-1970.
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He also worked as a member in the working committee of the 'OrissaSahitya Academy'. He was also the Chairman of the Paralakhemundi Municipality for 16 years. The #Andhra Mahasabha conferred him with the 'Bharati Bhushan' award. He was also awarded by the GanjamSahitya
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Sammilani (1968), Odisha Sahitya Academy (1968), "PADMASHREE" by the President of India Shri V.V.Giri(1974), D.Litt. by the Berhampur University and a life member in the University Senate (1975), Utkal Pathak Sansad(1977), Orissa Congress
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SARALA SANMAN" (1989) for his outstanding and meritorious research work.
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Some of his works are:
'PALINKI BAHAKA': A poem translated IN Odia from"The Palanquin Bearers' of Sarojini Naidu's 'SWAPANECHUMBAN'. Manorama ,karnatakumari, prastaba chintamani
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'HISTORY OF GANGAS','insription of Puruosttama khetra',BHOUMA ERA', 'HEIROGRAPHIC LETTERS OF NARAJ', 'THE ODRAS & THEIR PREDOMENANCY',bhubaneswar on stone,inscriptional study of Lingaraja.'THE HISTORICALRESEARCH IN ORISSA', 'THE KENDULI JAYADEVA,Kalidasa and Odisha and many more
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