KANCHANJANGHA RUBAIYAT NATARAJ

About Author

The Author Nataraj Mahapatra was born on 22nd August 1941 at village Jholpathar in ex Khariar Estate of British India. His father was Krantikari Ganesh Prasad Mahapatra born on 18-7-1900 and Mother was Tarabati Devi. His father GPM was a great revolutionary and a freedom fighter. GPM, on 16-5-1921 had given the clarion call of ‘Bandemataram’ and ‘Mahatma Gandhi ki jay’ at the Investiture Ceremony of Raja Artatran Deo of Khariar.. The British L ieutenant Commissioner who was coronating the King, in rage, gave the sentence of Banishment from Khariar Estate for 12 years to GPM. GPM’s first wife died in shock. To take revenge, in July, 1930, GPM shot dead the British Commandant of Khariar Police station by firing two bullets at his ches. The British Govt. failed to prove, in the Sessions Court, Raipur, that GPM killed the commandant while he was undergoing Banishment for 12 years. His stone statue is installed in his village Jholpathar. Nataraj has inherited that revolutionary attitude in his lifelong social service and educational revolution and in his Literary adventure. He passed I.Sc from Sambalpur University and completed M.A in English from Mysore Open University. He was a teacher in Dr Katju High School, Bhela. He had started the Primary Schookl in his village in 1954 when he was just 13 years old. He started Bighnaraj High School in1989 in Sanmaheswar. He started the Khariar Junior College in 1979 and Khariar Degree College in 1983. He started khariar Central School in 2010. In 1983 he started Sanmaheswar Gram Panchayat ccording to govt. instruction. . Nataraj had assumed various social responsibilities at various times. He was a distinguished debator in his student carrier.In 1957, when he was a student of class X, he hadastounded the intellectual mass by arguing in his schoodebate that Man is neither Herbivorous nor Carnivorous but Boilivorous.It meanse Man eats meat and herbs by boiling them.The King of Kalahandi Late P;