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| name = Ramakanta Rath<br />
| image = Ramakanta Rath Odia Author.jpg<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1934|12|13}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Cuttack]], [[Odisha]], [[India]]<br />
| nationality = Indian<br />
| occupation = Poet<br />
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'''Ramakanta Rath''' (born 13 December 1934) is one of the most renowned [[modernist]] poets in the [[Odia language|Odia]] literature. Heavily influenced by the poets such as [[T. S. Eliot]] and [[Ezra Pound]], Rath experimented greatly with form and style. The quest for the mystical, the riddles of life and death, the inner solitude of individual selves, and subservience to material needs and carnal desires are among this philosopher-poet's favorite [[theme (literary)|themes]]. His poetry betrays a sense of pessimism along with counter-aesthetics, and he steadfastly refuses to put on the garb of a preacher of goodness and absolute beauty. His poetry is full of melancholy and laments the inevitability of death and the resultant feeling of futility. The poetic expressions found in his creations carry a distinct sign of symbolic annotations to spiritual and [[metaphysics|metaphysical]] contents of life. Often transcending beyond ordinary human capabilities, the poet reaches the higher territories of sharp intellectualism. The contents have varied from a modernist interpretation of ancient [[Sanskrit]] literature protagonist [[Radha]] in the poem "Sri Radha" to the ever-present and enthralling death-consciousness espoused in "Saptama Ritu" (The Seventh Season).<br />
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Rath was born in [[Cuttack]], [[Odisha]] ([[India]]). He obtained his MA in English Literature from [[Ravenshaw College]] in Odisha. He joined the [[Indian Administrative Service]] in 1957, but continued his writing career. He retired as Chief Secretary Odisha after holding several important posts in the Central Government such as Secretary to the Government of India. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1977, [[Saraswathi Samman]] in 1992, Bishuva Samman in 1990 and India's 3rd highest civilian honour, the [[Padma Bhushan]] in 2006.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=21 July 2015}}</ref> He was the Vice President of the Sahitya Academy of India from 1993 to 1998 and the President of the Sahitya Akademi of India from 1998 to 2003, [[New Delhi]].<br />
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In February 2009 he was awarded a [[List of Sahitya Akademi fellows|Sahitya Akademi Fellowship]] by the [[Sahitya Akademi|Central Sahitya Akademi]], the fifth [[Odia language|Odia]] writer to be so honoured.<br />
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A number of his poems have been translated into [[English language|English]] and other [[Languages of India|Indian languages]].<br />
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==Major works==<br />
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===Poems===<br />
* "Kete Dinara" (Of a Long Long Time), 1962<br />
* "Aneka Kothari" (Many Rooms), 1967<br />
* "Sandigdha Mrigaya" (Suspicious Hunting), 1971<br />
* "Saptama Ritu" (The Seventh Season), 1977<br />
* "Sachitra Andhara" (Picturesque Darkness), 1982<br />
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===Long poems===<br />
* ''Sri Radha'' (Sri Radha), 1984 (won [[Saraswati Samman]] in 1992 for this Poetry)<br />
* ''Sri Palataka'' (Mr. Escapist), 1997<br />
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==References==<br />
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===Sources===<br />
* [https://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/ramakantrath.html "Ramakant Rath - Oriya Poet: The South Asian Literary Recordings Project (Library of Congress New Delhi Office)"]<br />
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