Laxminarayan Sahu

Who was Laxminarayan Sahu?

Dr. Laxminarayan Sahu was an eminent and noted writer, poet, journalist, social worker, reformer, historian, politician from Odisha, India.

He was born in a village named Manikhamb near Balasore and was the only son of his father, Khetramohan Sahu. and got degrees of M.A and L.L.B after graduation from school. He was a teacher of a repute. He was noted for his writings and books recording the tribal myths of Orissa. His stories were connected with creation, heaven, and hell, life and death, which the tribal people of Orissa have been taken down from the lips to lips from generations. He was also deeply involved in promotion and preservation of folk dance and music of Orissa and Oriya culture, language and literature. Apart from Oriya he was also for his writings in Hindi, Bengali, English and Sanskrit. His other famous stories are “Veena“, “Sulata“, “Control Room“, poems “ Pashara “ and social story of “Springs of the Soul “ etc. He was also Oriya newspaper Sahakar and English dailies - Vatarini and Star of Utkal As a reformer, he fought again untouchability and social evils against women.

He was elected to Orissa Assembly in 1947 and was a member of Constituent Assembly of India.