Tapan Kumar Pradhan

Tapan Kumar Pradhan

Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan (b.1972 Bhubaneswar, Orissa), Indian writer and poet in English, Hindi and Oriya, is a versatile creative artist in such diverse fields like poetry, short fiction, essays and caricature.

Dr Pradhan is perhaps best known for his translation of the poem Kalahandi for which he won Sahitya Akademi's Indian Literature Golden Jubilee Translation Award for Poetry in 2007 along with Rana Nayar. His other important poems include Equation and The Hour of Coming which were published in the November–December 2007 Issue of Indian Literature (No 242). Besides, his poems The Storm, Epitaph and Boddhisattva published in the Journal of Poetry Society [1] have won critical acclaim.

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Award winning essays

In 2007 Dr Pradhan received the Indian Express [2] Citizen for Peace [3] Award for his essays on communal harmony. He has also won First Prize in All-India Inter-bank Hindi Essay Competition for 2007-08, a prize he also won in 2006-07 [4] for his essays on micro-finance and financial inclusion. He also won First Prize in the RBIA Silver Jubilee essay competition on Future of Central Banking conducted by Reserve Bank of India in 2007-08. Earlier he had won Third prize in World Habitat Day Essay Competition 2007 for his essay titled Green & Intelligent Buildings and Urban Infrastructure. Before joining Reserve Bank of India, during his student days, he had won Upasika Kamaladevi Award for essay on Buddhism, Shatadru award for short story and Ankur award for poetry etc. He was also the Utkal University literary champion during 1993-94.

Dr Pradhan receiving Inter-Bank Essay First Prize from RBI Governor

Publications

Dr Pradhan's poems, essays and short stories have been published in a wide range of journals like Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi), Journal of the Poetry Society [5] (India), The Statesman, Times of India, Without Reserve and The Asian Age etc. The most popular among his short stories include Orphan, My German Friend, A Cab for Seventeen, A Taste for Rats, Faster Way to Youth and How I Became A Writer. He has also written a full length play Victim Number Ninety-nine.

Contribution to Music & Visual Art

In 2006 Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan won a prize in RBI's Corporate Cartoon Competition. His cartoons and caricatures have been published in the Without Reserve. He has set to music a number of popular songs and poems in various Indian languages. Although not formally trained in music, he plays the flute, and at present he is compiling a collection of rare folk songs.

Research and other activities

A holder of UGC Fellowship of University Grants Commission of India, Dr Pradhan was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Utkal University in 2001 for his dissertation titled "Dimensions of Integration and Conflict in a Cross-cultural Cross-communal Setting : A Comparative Analysis". He has done path breaking research on the Kandh-Pana conflict in Kandhamal district, Hindu-Muslim relations in Bhadrak and Harijan-Savarna caste dynamics at Brahmabarada in Jajpur district of Orissa.He taught Sociology for a while at Fakir Mohan College, Balasore, before joining the Reserve Bank of India as an officer in 1999.

Presently Dr Pradhan is a Member of Faculty in the ZTC or Zonal Training Centre of RBI at CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai where he teaches Banking, Finance, Communication, HR Management and Sociology, besides Yoga, Alternative Therapy and Stress Management. Dr Tapan, or TKP as he is fondly known, hails from Laxmisagar in Bhubaneswar. Dr Pradhan was the sessions coordinator at the Fifth National Hindi Seminar on Agriculture and Banking organised by Canara Bank at Hyderabad during June 2008.

See also

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References

^http://www.indianpoetry.org/Journal.htm

^http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Winning-views-on-Living-with-Differences/267304/

http://citizensforpeace.in/blog/2008/01/10/secular-rethink-essay-contest-results/

http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/bs_viewcontent.aspx?Id=772


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