Gopabandhu Das Biography

 Gopabandhu Das was born in 1877, He was a well known poet. Born in a middle-class Brahmin family, he received his B.A. degree from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, and a law degree from Calcutta University. He practised law before he joined the Gandhian movement and worked for the poor in rural odisha.

He has been described as the founder of the Satyabadi Age in odia literature, so called after the Vana Vidyalaya he had set up at Satyabadi, near Puri in 1915. He and his compatriots, Godavarisa Misra and Nilakantha Das wrote a kind of poetry that was simple and lyrical and dealt mostly with the history, legends and folklore of odisha. Their immediate aim was to create a literature that would arouse the people’s nationalist sentiment.

Gopabandhu’s poetic career began with Abakasa Chinta (Thoughts of leisure-hours, 1899). It is a collection of lyrics he wrote during his school and college days. A second edition was published probably around 1912. The 1912 edition contains thirtynine poems. Between 1899 and 1923 he did not write much poetry except a few occasional pieces. The real flowering of his poetic power took place around 1923 when he was a political prisoner in the Hazaribagh jail where he wrote four more books. The poems in Abakasa Chinta easily fall into three distinct groups – the first containing the poet’s homage to historical celebrities, the second dealing with nature, and the third describing his visits to places of historical importance.


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