Santanu Acharya (Bhubaneswar)

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Santanu Kumar Acharya, born on 1933 in Kolkata, hails from the famous village Siddheswar Pur of Cuttack district, Odisha. Santanu’s father Ananta Charan Acharya was a renowned school teacher in Odisha. He served the Government of Odisha as a college teacher for 34 years from 1958 to 1992 when he retired as the Registrar of Utkal University, Odisha, in the rank of UGC Professor and senior academician and administrative officer.

He has written as many as fifteen novels and eighteen short story books and many books for children and has been awarded by the National Academy of Literature for fiction. Read his recent historical fiction "Anoma's Daughter" published by Kataha Foundation, New Delhi .

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Coordinates:   20°17'12"N   85°51'11"E

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  • Santanu Kumar Acharya's novels have a socio-political message that is not only contemporary and realistic but has a prophesy that is rare in modern and post modern writings.His works transcends the so called social realism to the realm of metaphysics with liberal use of myths and poetic symbolism that is charachteristic of high literature of epic dimensions.
  • Santanu Kumar Acharya, my most favorite writer, has published very recently a travelogue titled " Peeta Prastar Jatiya Udyan " ( Yellow Stone National Park ) after his last visit to USA, in 2008. It is not only a wonderful travelogue featuring the rare sights usually marveled at by most tourists who visit that unique place of geological mystery,in the Rockeys of North America, it offers also a surprisingly astoundig revelation that would leave the reader of this book spell bound! The medium of this revelation, a phantom like character named Going Snake, that makes the travelogue a literary classic by itself. It shows the writer's uncommon genius that pays attention to the inner voices of the mysterious nature that lies underneath, far below the grounds of the inferno known as the Yellow Stone National Park. A book that needs translation into world languages.
  • His autobiography," Mo Jeevan :Anya Eka Upanyasa" ( My Life is another novel ), 2013, is just published by his publisher Ms Grantha Mandira, Binode Bihari, Cuttack-2. It is acclaimed as one of the most outstanding piece of autobiography of our times written by an Indian novelist of eminence. Spanning some six decades of crucial historical times since 1933 to 1993 of our country the veteran writer, Santanu Acharya, has revealed the unrecorded social history of our times as no history book would like to reveal ever. .
  • His famous fiction Nara-Kinnara ( Man and Sub humans) published in 1962 had completed 50th year last year. This was celebrated as a Golden Jubilee year on May 18,2013 along with the author's 80th birth anniversary at Bhubabeswar, Odisha, where the author was given a hearty public ovation on behalf of a publication house Pakshi Ghara and the well known media house Sambada, with Honbl'e Governor of Assam, Sri J.B.Pattanayak gracing the occasion as the Chief Guest. A special edition of the book titled "Nara Kinnara - Suvarna Smaraki" was brought out by the publication house Pakshi Ghara was brought out for commemorating the author's 80th Birth Day. His autobiography, titled " Mo Jeevana Anya Eka Upanyasha " that had just been published was also launched on this auspicious occasion.
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