Born in the district of Balasore, he lost his parents at an early age, then working as a laborer to finance and further his childhood education. Odia survived, thanks to his efforts and the likes of Gourishankar Ray and Madhusudan Das.įakir Mohan’s life was a story of personal tragedies and struggle. He started an Odia printing press and publishing books in our native language. Many eminent Bengalis at the helm of affairs those days living in Cuttack led by Anandilal Mitra made this fallacious proclamation – ODIA EKTAA SWATANTRA VASA NAYE, “Odia is not an independent language”.įakir Mohan fought tooth and nail against this wrong notion. Had he not been there, in all probability Bengali would have taken over Odia as the medium of teaching in the state where Odia is the mother tongue of the overwhelming majority. He was a writer, patriot and a shrewd strategist rolled into one who fought for Odia language which was on the verge of extinction at that time. Fakir Mohan Senapati, an Odia legend was way ahead of his time. If he wasn’t born in Odisha on this day of 13th January of 1843, we would be reading and speaking Bengali today. Thousands salute and tribute to the man for his service to the state of Odisha on his 177th birthday
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