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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Bidyut Prabha Devi''' (12 July 1926 – 28 January 1977) was an [[Odia language|Odia]] poet from India. She is recognized as one of the best female poets in [[Odia literature]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Bidyut Prabha was born on 12 July 1926 at her maternal uncle's home in a small village named Jhinkadi in the district of [[Cuttack district|Cuttack]]. She was the second daughter of Nimai Charan Das, a writer and compiler, and Rekha Devi. Her parents, being a traditionalists and conservatives, lived in Bamphisahi of [[Cuttack]] city. Bidyut Prabha had a brother and two sisters; her younger sister Punya Prabha Devi is also a writer.<ref name="Nanda2010">{{cite book|first=Bijaya Kumara|last=Nanda|title=Bidyut Prabha Devi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4DTVZwEACAAJ|year=2010|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|pages=1–19|isbn=978-81-260-2920-4}}</ref><br />
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She started writing poems under the inspiration of her father, Nimai Charan Das. In her childhood, she got herself acquainted with several major Odia poets.<ref name="Datta1987">{{cite book|editor=Amaresh Datta|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: A-Devo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ObFCT5_taSgC&pg=PA942|year=1987|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-260-1803-1|pages=942}}</ref><br />
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On 4 July 1949, she married Panchanan Mohanty, an employee of Orissa secretariat.<ref name="Nanda2010"/><br />
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She suffered from poor health during 1966, and indulged towards spirituality and moved to [[Sri Aurobindo Ashram]].<ref name="Dalal2017">{{cite book|author=Roshen Dalal|title=India at 70: Snapshots Since Independence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JYswDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT72|date=23 August 2017|publisher=Penguin Random House India Private Limited|isbn=978-93-86815-37-8|page=72}}</ref> On 28 January 1977, her declining health led her to commit suicide by jumping in front of a train.<ref name="Nanda2010"/><ref name="Dalal2017"/><br />
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==Works==<br />
Bidyut Prabha started writing poems from 1940 and subsequently her poems were published in literary magazines, with her elder sister Basanti who had written some poems. She published her first collection of poems ''Sabita'' in 1944, which has mostly patriotic poems relating to the glory and grandeur of the land of Orissa.<ref name="Nanda2010"/><br />
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Though educated in urban area, her poems reflects memory of rural life of her childhood. Considerably influenced by two Odia poets, [[Nanda Kishore Bal]] and Kunja Bihari Das, her poems deal with the problem of women that exist in an age-old conservative society. She also wrote plays and some children's literature.<ref name="Datta1987"/><ref name="Dalal2017"/> Her complete works of poems was published as ''Bidyutprabha Sanchayan'' in 1957.<ref name="Datta1987"/><br />
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===Collection of poems===<br />
* ''Sabita'' (1947)<br />
* ''Utkal Saraswata Prativa'' (1947)<br />
* ''Kanakanjali'' (1948)<br />
* ''Marichika'' (1948)<br />
* ''Bihayasi'' (1949)<br />
* ''Bandenika'' (1950)<br />
* ''Swapnadeep'' (1951)<br />
* ''Jhara Siuli'' (1957)<br />
* ''Jahaku Jie'' (1957)<br />
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==Recognition==<br />
In 1950, Bidyut Prabha's book ''Utkal Saraswata'' was prescribed as a poetry text book by [[Utkal University]] for high school students.<ref name="Nanda2010"/> Bidyutprabha Devi is recognized as one of the major female poets in [[Odia literature]]. Her collection of poems ''Bidyutprabha Sanchayana'' won the [[Odisha Sahitya Academy Award]] in 1962.<ref name="Dalal2017"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{Gbooks-author|Bidyutprabhā Debī}}<br />
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