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Noted litterateur, playwright and Odisha Sahitya Akademi awardee, Chintamani Jena passed away

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Keonjhar:4/7/17: Noted litterateur, playwright and Odisha Sahitya Akademi awardee, Chintamani Jena passed away at his ancestral house in Barpada in Keonjhar district today.

He was 82. As news of his death spread, a pall of gloom descended in the literary circle here and elsewhere across the state.

Jena was awarded by the Odisha Sahitya Akademi for his collection of one-act plays ‘Dharmnadhikari O Ananya Ekankika’ for the year 2012.

He was a story writer, novelist and playwright. Popular Odia film ‘Sindura Bindu’ by noted film director Sisir Misra was an adaptation of his novel ‘Sarpanch Pua’.

‘Sandhya Tara’, ‘Satabdira Artanada’, ‘Timira Tirthare Eka Rati’, ‘Kautilya’, ‘Anya Eka Bikalpa’ etc are other popular plays written by him.

Jena has scripted about 120 plays in Hindi, Bengali and Odia in his lifetime.

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Ashok Palit has completed his graduation from Upendranath College Soro, Balasore and post graduation from Utkal University in Odia Language and literture.. He has also carved out a niche for himself as a scribe of eminence after joining the profession in 1988. He is also an independent media production professional. He brings loads of experience to Advanced Media, Ashok Palit as a cineaste has been active in film criticism for over three decades. As a film society activist, he soared to eminence for his profound commitment to the art film appreciation and aesthetics of cinema. His mode of discourse is often erudite but always lucid and comprehensible marked by a perfect acumen so rare in the field. A film aesthete with an immense fond of critical sensibilities, he wrote about growth and development of odia cinema in New Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and Screen. He has been working as an Editor for Cine Samaya from 2002-2004.. He had made solid contribution on cinema in many odia Dailies and weekly such as Samaj, Prajatantra, Dharatri, Samaya, Satabadi, and weekly Samaya.
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