Jayanta Mahapatra is an acclaimed Indian poet who won several prestigious literary awards later in life, despite not gaining fame at a young age. He was born into poverty in 1928 in Odisha, India and worked as a physics teacher for many years before beginning his career as a poet in his 40s. Some of his major works include Svayamvara and Other Poems (1971) and A Rain of Rites (1976). Though he started writing and found success relatively late, Mahapatra has authored over 20 books of poetry and helped establish Odia literature, showing that talent can emerge at any stage of life.

1. It is being said that only early
achievers gain fame in future
But this doctrine is out shadowed by
people like
Jayanta Mahapatra

2. Akademi winner in English. His
legacy even counts Padma Shri for
service of this art.
He also won SAARC literary award and
RaedLeaf Poetry Lifetime
He is not among those who clinches this art at young
age,
Achievement Award
but his jobs are no less
His early childhood saw poverty, but
his life shines with fame.

3. Jayanta Mahapatra was born 22 October 1928 in a low
middle class family. He gained early education in Cuttack
and went on to gain masters degree in Physics
He started as physics teacher in various
colleges in Orissa and ended career in 1986.

4. It is true that poetry is not a thought insisted to be
written
but a thought that insist one to write
poetry can peep out of brain only in peace, and a
stress-laden heart can never approach to realm
of it

5. Jayanta began to write only after entering 40’s.
As mentioned earlier, it is not everyday when it
happens....
But neither its is everyday, when
poetry emerges

6. His first literary work came out in 1971
as “Svayamvara and Other Poems”
being followed by “Close the Sky, Ten By
Ten” in same year”
In 1976, he came up with
“Father’s Hour” and “The Rain of
Rites”
In same year, he went for poem
reading in four foreign universities

7. Including the very popular,
A Rain of Rites
He have authored 20 books on poetry,
three on prose, seven in his local dialect.
AND LEGACY CONTINUES

8. TALENT PRAISED IS TALENT ENCOURAGED
AND OPPOSITE OF SAME LEAD TO PERISH

9. day began with flake of shiver
and creator of day is in the sky
let pyres of last dusk be forgotten by all
and let our smile out shadow our cry
let a chant be on our lips
and altogether we sing a rhyme
the era changes like a flick of coin
but our gleam shouldn’t change with time
Keep Smiling and a huge
thanx