Manoj Das Biography

 Manoj Das was born in 1934.He is a prominent writer in odia and English. In his career as a student he was attracted towards the leftist political philosophy. A deep humanistic note is noticed in all his works. Prominent among his short story collections are Manoj Dasanka Katha O Kahani (winner of the Sahitya Akademi award in 1972), Dhumrabha Diganta O Anyanya Kahani, Abu Purusha O Anyanya Kahani and Laxmira Abhisara.

The Crocodiles Lady and Fables and Fantasies for Adults are his two short story collections in English. With a keen observation of human nature he brings out the pathos and predicaments of life. Through subtle irony and often through comic extravaganza, he communicates a vision of life where various existential compulsions weigh on man making him take, at times, very ridiculous steps. There is a strong undercurrent of sadness in almost all his stories which springs often from a nostalgic yearning for a lost world of love or innocence.

This intimate loss is either of a childhood experience as in Dhumrabha Diganta or of an innocent culture as in Farewell to a Ghost. Yet there is often a beatific side of life as has been illustrated in Sesa Basantara Chithi. The little girl Rina comes forward to share the common sorrow of the loss of a mother in the intimate human understanding. Das speaks of the agony and ecastasy of life as well. He penetrates into the psyche of the individual and focuses on the perversions and miseries of life. His technique is mainly ironic and his irony is always marked by an affectionate understanding of life’s various urges.

In Abu Purusha the lump of Sarma symbolises the perversion of values in a highly commercial society. In Madhubanara Mayor the vanities of the mayor pale into insignificance before the small girl who helps him cover his naked body with her torn and soiled frock. In many of his stories Das subtly focuses on the modern man’s loss of innocence, on the false ego and vanity, and on the artificial values which ultimately lead him to his own destruction.

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