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{{Infobox Prime Minister
|name = Devdas Chhotray First [[Vice-Chancellor]] of [[Ravenshaw University]]
|image = Devdas Chhotray.JPG
|imagesize = 250px
|order = Chairman Biju Patnaik Film and Television Institute, Cuttack
|office2 = Vice-Chancellor Ravenshaw University Cuttack
|term_start2 = 15 November 2006
|term_end2 = 
|birth_date = 25 November 1946
|birth_place = [[Cuttack]]
|residence = Cuttack, [[Odisha]], India
|profession = [[Indian Administrative Service]] officer, writer
|spouse =
|children =
|alma_mater = [[Ravenshaw College]], [[Utkal University]] [[Cornell University]],
|religion =
}}

'''Devdas Chhotray''' is an Indian [[Odia language|Odia]] author,<ref>https://www.dailypioneer.com/2014/state-editions/for-poet-there-is-no-age-says-chhotray.html</ref> administrator <ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=301053055&privcapId=113400158&previousCapId=113400158&previousTitle=Universal%20Commodity%20Exchange%20Limited</ref> and academician. He was the first vice-chancellor of [[Ravenshaw University]], [[Cuttack]], [[Odisha]].<ref>http://www.ravenshawuniversity.ac.in/FormerVc.php</ref> His work consists of poetry, short stories, lyrics, musicals and screenplays. Chhotray's father [[Gopal Chhotray]], a recipient of Padma, Central [[Sahitya Akademi Award|Sahitya Akademi]] and [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]], was an architect of modern Odia theatre.<ref>[https://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2004/04/01/stories/2004040100380300.htm ]{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/odisha/the-magic-lantern-my-reminiscences-of-films/cid/1508237</ref>

== Early life, Education & Career ==

Chhotray was educated at Ravenshaw College (now Ravenshaw University) and Cornell University. After joining the [[Indian Administrative Service]] in 1971, he worked in West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and New Delhi. In 2006 Chhotray became the first vice-chancellor of Ravenshaw University, obtained [[University Grants Commission (India)|UGC approval]] for the school in six months.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/1737|title=Ravenshaw University in two years under the leadership of VC Devdas Chhotray|date=17 November 2008|website=Odisha HRD|accessdate=14 May 2014}}</ref>

Chhotray was director of the Orissa Film Development Corporation from 1983–89 and 1996–98, chairman of the publications committee for the fifth International Children’s Film Festival in 1987 and was vice-president of the governing council of the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune from 1999–2001.

== Books, Writings==

He has written a collection of stories, ''Lal Machha'' (''Red Fish''), the lyrics for more than 75 films in Oriya and television musicals. Chhotray is known for his collaboration with [[Akshaya Mohanty]], a pioneer in modern Oriya music from the 1960s until his death in 2002, as Mohanty's principal songwriter.<ref>https://odishasuntimes.com/akshaya-mohanty-chronicles-1-devdas-chhotray/</ref><ref>http://www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/books/2016/oct/22/odisha-literary-fest-1530722.html</ref><ref> https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/cuttack/Kabir-Sumans-songs-to-get-an-Odia-makeover/articleshow/54844395.cms</ref><ref> http://www.asianage.com/life/more-features/131218/konark-dance-festival-transporting-to-wonderland-of-classical-dances.html</ref>

He has written screenplays for feature films in Oriya. One, ''[[Indradhanura Chhai]]'' (''Shadows of the Rainbow'') was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3393/year/1995.html|title=Indradhanura Chhai|website=Festival de Cannes|accessdate=14 May 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216121504/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3393/year/1995.html|archivedate=16 December 2013}}</ref>

In addition to Chhotray's anthologies of poems and stories in Oriya, notably ''Nila Saraswati'' (''Blue Muse'') and ''Hati Saja Kara'' (''Order the Elephants''), English translations of his poems have appeared in ''Longing'' (published by [[Pimlico Books]] in London). An anthology of his poems in Hindi, ''Ret Ki Sidhi'' (''A Staircase of Sand'') has been published in Delhi.

== Awards ==

Chhotray's four decades of poetry and lyrics have been translated into [[India]]n and foreign languages, and he has been published in [[Bengali language|Bengali]] (in the [[Sunil Gangopadhyaya]]-edited ''Krittibas''. He has received the Prajatantra Bisuv Milan and Utkal Samaj Centenary (Gangadhar Meher Samman) Awards and the 2008 Rajdhani Book Fair Award 2008 for poetry.

* Odisha Excellence Award 2018 <ref>https://eodishasamachar.com/en/governor-confers-odisha-excellence-award-2018-in-20-categories/</ref><ref>https://www.dailypioneer.com/2018/state-editions/guv-confers-odisha-excellence-award.html</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cite web|url=http://www.oocities.org/varnamala/devdas.html|title=The Long-Haired Girl|website=Varnamala: Contemporary Oriya Poetry|accessdate=14 May 2014}}

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