Manoj Das
Writer, Author
1934 –
Who is Manoj Das?
Manoj Das is an Indian award-winning bilingual creative writer who writes in Oriya and English on whom Kendra Sahitya Akademi has bestowed its highest award i.e Sahitya Akademi Award Fellowship. Manoj Das was awarded Padma Shri in 2001 for his contribution in the field of Literature & Education, the fourth highest Civilian Award in India. In 2000 he was awarded with Saraswati Samman also.
In 1971 his research in the archives of London and Edinburgh brought to light some of the little-known facts of India's freedom struggle in the first decade of the twentieth century led by Sri Aurobindo for which he received the first Sri Aurobindo Puraskar.
His deeper quest led him to mysticism and he has been an inmate of Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry since 1973 where he currently teaches English Literature and the Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo at the Sri Aurobindo International University.
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