MANOJ DAS (Oriya: ମନୋଜ ଦାସ) (born 1934) is an Indian award-winning bilingual creative writer who writes in Oriya and English on whom KENDRA SAHITYA AKADEMI has bestowed its highest award (also India's highest literary award) i.e Sahitya Akademi Award Fellowship. Manoj Das was awarded Padma Shri in 2001 (also Padmashree) for his contribution in the field of Literature & Education, the fourth highest Civilian Award in INDIA . In 2000 he was awarded with Saraswati Samman (सरस्वती सम्मान) 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 (kolkata ) .
His deeper quest led him to mysticism and he has been an inmate of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, puducherry since 1973 where he currently teaches English Literature and the Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo at the Sri Aurobindo International University, Pondicherry.
Read more about Manoj Das: Early Life, As Editor and Columnist, As A Creative Writer and Short Story Teller, On Sri Aurobindo, Awards, Selected Works, Commentary, Blog
Famous quotes containing the word das:
“The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?” [Was will das Weib?]”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)