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Chakradhar Mahapatra was born in 1908,he is literary critic, compiler of folk literature,and editor of the works of old anonymous writers, was born in an aristocratic family. In 1928 he wrote his first novel Gobara gotei, which, with its preoccupation with social problems, created a sensation. He collected the folk songs of odisha and published an anthology named Utkala gauli gita. He has to his credit about sixty works which include novels, plays, poems and critical essays. So far only twenty of these works have been published. Some of them are Baneshwar, Balangir, Radang Baxi, Bohunka sukha dukhara gitika, Utkala itihasara eka agyanta adhyaya and Kuntalakumari jivanacharita. Chakradhar Mahapatra was associated with the Jnanakosha Sankalana Samiti of Utkal Univeristy and with the Gitagovinda Sankalana Samiti of the Department of the Cultural Affairs of odisha. (Ni.M.).

Odia Books By Chakradhar Mahapatra

Gobara Gotei
Utkala Gauli Gita
Baneshwar
Radang Baxi
Balangir
Kuntalakumari jivanacharita
Bohunka Sukha Dukhara Gitika