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BIO-DATA OF POET SOUBHAGYABANTA MAHARANA Born in the Bolangir town of Odisha state on 15.08.1951 poet Soubhagyabanta Maharana started writing poetry from the year 1975. Mr. Maharana is basically a bilingual poet of Odia and English. Several poems of him have been published in the leading Oriya magazines, MUSE INDIA ejournal, POETRY FIRST, Telegraph weekly magazine, Poetry Chronicle, Indian Literature, The Caravan, The Eastern Times of Odisha and A Posy of Poesy, Poets’ Paradise, The Poetic Bliss and Fancy Realm of Guntur Literary Festival. He has to his credit ten Odia poetry collections, one Essay collection based on modern Odia poetry and one translated Hindi poetry collection. He has received sundry awards due to his excellence of poetry from various literary and cultural organizations of Odisha. He was felicitated at the Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal in the national poetry seminar [ Kavya Bharati-II ] of October ‘1990. In the year 1994 Mr.Maharana was nominated by the Kendra Sahitya Academy for the Travel Grants to Authors to visit Uttar Pradesh and New Delhi to meet poets and writers for the exchange of literary views and visions. Moreover, in the year 2007 he received the award for English translation competition relating to its bi-monthly INDIAN LITERATURE from the Sahitya Akademy in its Golden Jubilee Celebration. His poetry collection MATIPARBA [ FESTIVAL OF EARTH] has received the Odisha Sahitya Akademi Award for the year 2010. Some of his Odia poems have been translated into English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali and Kannad. Mr. Maharana has translated some Odia poems of a few reputed poets of Odisha, namely, Sachi Routray, Rajendra Kishore Panda, Guru Prasad Mohanty, Pratibha Satpathy, Jagannath Prasad Dash, Manorama Biswal Mohapatra into English. He has retired as the Divisional Manager[N.B] of LIC, Sambalpur Division. His present address is: Bharati Bhavan, Shivam Colony, Behind Ayakar Bhavan, Sambalpur-768004, Odisha, INDIA. He may be contacted with his Mobile Phone: 09437457736. His email is: soubhagyabantamaharana@yahoo.com and soubhagya15august@gmail.com Sambalpur [Odisha] Date: 22.09.2013)

The Best Poem Of Soubhagyabanta Maharana

Farmers' Suicide

FARMERS’ SUICIDE

* SOUBHAGYABANTA MAHARANA

When the dark future
Makes a sojourn
Over the horizon of their penury
The farmers lament
For their irreparable loss
Arising out of the scanty rains
Or the heavy floods that create calamity.

If there were insects in the crops:
It is the fault of water.
If crops burnt in conspiracy
It is the fault of fire.
If the crops failed to yield gold
It is the fault of soil.
If the bank loan was not repaid in time
It is the fault of the farmer.

Out of utter desperation and dejection
The farmers commit suicide
When the sky falls upon them.
Due to the heavy burden of bank-loan.
When you say it a farmer’s suicide
Administration terms it a common death
Owing to house-hold quarrel.
When you tell it a burden of loan
There is no mention of it
In the white papers of the government.

Between rice and hunger
The colour and destiny of the burning fire
Effects the festivals of seasons.
The surging water of the river Mahanadi
Appears to be dried up
To see the acute poverty of farmers.

Is there any colour, beauty or fashion
To embellish a farmer’s suicide
By embracing the bewitching death
After its broadcast or telecast
In the radio or television from time to time?
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