The Barpali Days

This blog is the Facebook of Barpali which picturise its "life" and "culture". It was a "palli" or a village a century back where the all time great Oriya poet swabhaba kabi Gangadhar Meher had taken birth. Now this bustling little town is renowned world-over for the weaving of Sambalpuri ikat handloom fabrics. Agriculture is its prime economy. And when you happen to visit this little town don't miss to taste Chaul bara.

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Oct 11, 2018

3:47 PM

Helping Hearts, Barpali


Helping Hearts of Barpali is a Charitable Trust that has been setup by Satyananda Pandey. Satya was brought up under the adverse situations of life as his  father rearing his family of seven members with a mere salary of Rs.1,200 a month. Since Satya himself was deprived of a wholesome life, he decided to work for the betterment of the society. He had the urge to serve the people especially those who are being oppressed. In the year 2017 he started a social organisation by the name of Helping Hearts, Barpali. In the past one and half years this organisation has helped a score of destitute people who are deprived of availing benefits from the government, either because they are victim of illiteracy or lack the knowledge of how to avail the benefits that are provided by the Government.

The modus operandi of Helping Hearts is to answer the difficulties and need of each individual instead of community as a whole. In the past two years it has attended to the need of many sick and handicap persons of different villages across Bargarh, Sonepur and Balangir districts.



Om Bania an eight years old boy of Badipali village had a congenital disability. Since birth he is immovable. His father is an illiterate person and he was not knowing how to avail aid from government. Helping Hearts approached the Block Development Officer(BDO) of Barpali and filed the needed application. Finally this destitute boy got a tricycle. Likewise Sunita Seth a  twenty years young woman of Babupali and Srabani Sahu an eight years old young girl of Krushakapali as well got wheelchairs.

Ganesh Deep a destitute man of 26 yrs old has been  paralyzed  in both the legs since 2014 due to a road accident. Timely intervention of Helping Hearts made Ganesh to avail a tri-cycle.


Amit Kumbhar is a three and half years old boy from a very poor family of Bandupali village of Bijepur block. He was suffering from a congenital deformities/disease of "imperforate anus". When Helping Hearts intervened in this issue the District Collector of Bargarh sanctioned Rs.5,000 from Redcross Fund for the treatment of this child. Helping Hearts of Barpali delegated a volunteer of it to take the child to Sishu Bhawan,SCB Medical College at Cuttack. Finally Amit has successfully undergone a major surgery. Now this little boy has been rehabilitated.

 A baby girl of Bandhpali village by the name
Subhashree Sahu was suffering from eye cancer. When Helping Hearts of Barpali has been informed they raised somewhere Rs.5,000/- for her treatment. The girl was taken for treatment to L.V.Prasad Eye Institute located at Patia, Bhubaneswar.

Ranjan Mahanand a student from a poor
Schedule Caste family qualified in NEET exams and allotted a seat for admission in MBBS at VSS Medical College, Burla. Though he qualified, but did not had the money to take admission. Helping Hearts of Barpali made the awareness in the social media. Finally the entire requisite amount Rs.47,000 has been collectively raised by the good Samaritans of Barpali.  Unofficially Ranjan Mahanand took the oath when he pass out as a doctor he will serve the poor and destitute people of Odisha without any selfish means.


Manas Bariha a baby boy of one and half years old from Harda village was suffering from a congenital eye diseases which was deteriorating day by day. His   father Surendra Bariha is a small time farmer. The mother of this baby is under a paralysis attack. When the father of this baby approached Helping Hearts of Barpali they delegated a volunteer with Rs.5,000/- and sent the baby for treatment to LV Prasad Eye Institute located at Patia, Bhubaneswar.


Madhusudan Dharua a destitute and a poor  person    of Kadlipali village is a   physical handicap of both legs. His family having two girl children of 6 and 8 years is being looked after by his wife. Helping Hearts of Barpali procured a tricycle from BSSO(Block Social Security Officer) of Bargarh.

Neetu Bag is a destitute eight years old girl
of Barpali. It was June 2017 a mishap was waiting to happen for this student of Standard Three. While playing with her friends, unfortunately she entered into the danger zone  of a 11,000KV electric transformer. She came in contact with live electricity wire. Though she survived out of this mishap, but her hands need to be amputated. After that fateful incident her alcohol addicted father fled while living her alone. The volunteers of Helping Hearts took this child to Handicap Rehabilitation Centre of Sambalpur. From there the doctors referred her to SCB Medical College,Cuttack.

           Brundabati while mentally retarded

Brundabati return to normalcy after treatment

Brundabati Patra was a mentally handicapped girl of Kainsir. She hails from an absolute poor family. Dr.Saroj Seth(MD,Gynaecology) of CHC, Barpali referred her to VIMSAR, Burla. The volunteers of Helping Hearts with financial aid from Pragati Seva Sangha took this girl to VSS Medical College(VIMSAR) at Burla. When she undergone treatment over next two months she returned to normalcy.



Until now Helping Hearts, Barpali has
conducted two health camps for the women folk. The first one was at Barpali, where as many as 51 ladies participated and the second one was at village Remta where 93 ladies actively participated. It is to be noted district Bargarh is reporting innumerable cases of cancer due to abnormal use of pesticides and fertilizers in the farm lands.  More to it the ratio of feline afflicted to cancer is more than their male counterpart. Dr.Susmita Dash Tripathy (MD, O&G) conducted these two workshops exclusively for the rural women surrounding villages of Barpali and Remta. At Barpali around 51 women attended the workshop where as at Ramta. Our society is conservative in nature and most of the rural women veil their faces under their respective sarees. While respecting the dignity of our rural women Satyananda Pandey made it sure to call a female gynaecologist instead of a male doctor so as the rural women would be able to interact without encountering any shyness and the social stigma.   

Partha Sarathi Dash the Founder Member
and the General Secretary of Dalkhai Foundation Trust, Bangalore says Satyananda Pandey has dedicated precious time of his life for the welfare of the needy, instead of earning money for his own family. And during the Nuakhai Bhetghat 2018 celebrations at HAL Auditorium, Bangalore Dalkhai   Foundation felicitated Satyananda Pandey while acknowledging the selfless services that he is rendering to the society.



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Oct 10, 2018

9:25 PM

Surendra Nath : The modern-day literary protagonist


Surendra Nath was born in the steel city of Rourkela, where his father was working in the SAIL steel plant. He did his primary education in D-Souza English Medium  School, Rourkela. On joining Sainik School, he set ambition to join the armed so as to serve this great nation India. In those formative years of schooling itself he was inclined towards reading and writing stories in   English. 

Soon after passing out he qualified to join the premier
[While graduating from NDA]
National Defence Academy at Pune. It is to be noted only those crème  de la crème academically topper students with physical fitness could only qualify to join this premier school. On passing out from the NDA he joined Indian Navy. He saw his share of action during the Sri Lankan crisis when he was in a ship that ferried, to and fro, the Indian Peace Keeping Forces(IPKF). Over the time, he rose to the rank of a Commander and altogether commanded a vessel loaded with missiles.

While his stint with Indian Navy he got the opportunity to travel across the globe. While cruising in the high-tide of the oceans, the crew didn’t get to read the newspaper. There were neither smart phones, laptops, Facebook or WhatsApp to dissipate the information. Surendra altogether started a news bulletin service in his ship itself. It got readership among the crew members of the ship. He use to gather the latest global news by tuning in to the local radio  stations where so   ever his ship was voyaging. He use to draft the text and typed them in paper and use to cyclostyle in the ship itself. It was called Ranvijay Flash. This news bulletin use to publish exciting anecdotes of the voyage, occasional interviews of crew members and humour in the lighter vein. Every morning Ranvijay Flash was looked forward by the crew members of the ship to read. 

Way back in the year 2000 he took voluntary retirement(VRS) from the Indian Navy and joined an international school in Dubai. There, Surendra Nath realised writing was his second calling and wrote many short stories and articles which were published in a few magazines. With the advent of internet he joined a couple of online writers’ forums. He was a subject to face criticism from the fellow writers online.



After a spell of seven-years in Dubai in the year 2007 he returned to India. By then he was already fifty. Without considering the age factor he took to serious writing. He thinks the skill of writing is a wisdom that can’t be either taught or learnt in any school, college or Universities. One who gets the grace of Ma Saraswati could only compose the stanzas of literature let whatever the language may it be. Over the the decade he wrote several short stories that were published in mixed anthologies by multiple authors.

[Surendra Nath Mohanty with Ruskin Bond]
[Surendra while addressing at KIIT's Children’s Literary Festival ]

In the year 2015 while working with KiiT International School, Bhubaneswar,  he released his first full-length  novel titled “Karna’s Alter Ego”. At Kiits he came in contact with Mr Ruskin Bond. Surendra started a national children’s magazine titled Kloud-9. Surendra  was the editor, while  Mr Bond was the chief editor of this magazine. In the year 2012 Surendra undertook a massive project to organise a National Level Children’s Literary Festival in KIIT, Bhubaneswar. In this mega festival students from across the country participated. It was a huge success and kept on celebrated every year until now. In these literary festivals, he came in close association with renowned authors like Mr Ruskin Bond, Mr Manoj Das and Mr Chandrahas Choudhury, all of whom were of great inspirations to him.

[Late President of India APJ Abdul Kalam could be seen along with Achyuta Samanta the founder of KIIT on the left and writer Surendra Nath on the backdrop]
Sometime during early 2016, he chanced upon a social media post in Facebook. It was about a person cladded in white dhoti and vest. That person was barefooted, but receiving fifth highest civilian Award i.e. Padma Shri award from the President of India. It was none other than Sambalpuri poet Haldhar Nag. Surendra got curious to know about him while looking at his awkward appearance.  


Soon afterwards, Surendra watched him being interviewed on the TV. While the host was questioning  in Oriya the guest Mr Haldhar Nag was answering in his mother tongue i.e. Sambalpuri dialect. It was evident none out there in the audience understood what the guest was speaking. Haldhar recited two of his Sambalpuri poems on the show. Intriguingly the host herself missed the depth of this man’s literature. It was then Surendra realised the poetic works of Haldhar Nag deserves to be read by a wider spectrum of audience. The dialect of western Odisha, in which he writes, is a different tongue even for the majority of Odias to understand. Surendra decided to translate Haldhar’s poems into English. 


In April that year, he visited Mr Nag in his village, Ghess in Bargarh district and sought his permission to translate his works. To his pleasant satisfaction, the poet promptly agreed. Thus, was born Kavyanjali in October 2016.

Surendra firmly believes poet Haldhar Nag is a wizard of
Sambalpuri literature. Due to the neglect of this language his poetic works have been ignored by the world. So Surendra has undertaken the noble job to  translate the poetic works of Haldhar Nag in to English so as it could be read and appraised by the world audience. Surendra undertook the voluntary job of translating Haldhar Nag’s poems. Under the series of Kavyanjali Surndra Nath is publishing the English translation of Haldhar Nag’s poetic works.

The first volume of Kavyanjali was released in October  2016. Now Surendra Nath got back with the second edition of Kavyanjali. While Volume-3 of Kavyanjali is on the midway. Surendra has completed the sequel to his earlier novel “Karna’s Alter Ego” which is scheduled to be published before the end of this year. Both his books are centred around Karna, his favourite character from the Hindu epic Mahabharata. But Surendra’s stories are not to be confused as mythological ones. They are set in the present-time context. Surendra Nath Mohanty is a modern-day literary protagonist who idolises Karna and is much as  like him.
You may please buy the two editions of Kavyanjali from Amazon from the following links: 

 Buy Kavyanjali Volume-2

 Buy Kavyanjali Volume-1
Book release of Kavyanjali-2 at Tapaswini the District Auditorium, Sambalpur



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Jul 24, 2018

5:52 PM

Tilotama Kaunr : Want to gallop as if a Horse


By birth Tilotama is a physically handicapped lady of Kadlipali village near to Barpali. She got an abysmally small right leg. As per Indian values and customs she fear to lift her saree beyond knee to show it to the world.
 

 

She is married and got four children. Her husband works in a iron work garage. He roughly earns 200 INR a day which could be less than US $3. Due to poverty and iliteracy she was never taken to any hospitals for treatment. 


The world is being appealed to take care the urgent medical need of this lady. she could be referred to Ulatpur near Cuttack where the handicapped rehabilitation Centre is there. 

She got no email id where as you could speak with her husband. they could speak either Oriya or Hindi but no English. Her cell # is +917682935139

In case barrier of language or further details feel free to contact this blogger


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Jul 7, 2018

1:54 PM

Jatinder Sharma : Vaccinating the society


Jatinder was born and brought up in the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Due to social unrest and insecurity of life he looked for new avenues. He chose a lesser developed state i.e. Odisha, instead of Punjab or New Delhi where his relatives live. Prior coming to Odisha, he had no business antecedents with our state. Instead of costal belt, he had chosen to start life afresh in the western Odisha. This region is arid and over here people die of hunger and illness. He entered into vaccination business. His company Om Sai Associates markets entire portfolio of vaccines. Earlier in Western Odisha vaccines were not available. He setup the first ever cold storage facility of Celefrost, USA in Odisha to preserve the vaccines. In the past 4 years his business outfit saved as many as 158 children who were born with Hepatitis B syndromes. sells the vaccines of GSK, Serum, Sanofi Pasture and Bharat Biotech. Jatinder has taken head-on the duel role of creating awareness among the doctors of western Odisha for administering the new vaccines and at the same time to market them as a one man army. 


That apart, as the President of Rotary club of Sambalpur City he started a hockey academy for the under privileged children. They are grooming around 40 children to play the National Sports of India i.e. Hockey by providing sports kits to the poor kids. On behalf of his club he had taken the animal welfare projects of his region. They rescue injured and sick animals and give treatment 24X7. They have fitted reflection belts to many stray bullocks so as to save these poor creatures from encountering vehicular accidents during the night hours. This initiative not only saving animals, but the lives of human beings as well.

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Jul 5, 2018

1:04 AM

Pragnya Patnaik– From the window of computers to the world of literature


The living style of the software techies looks alluring because they are being highly paid and keep travelling across the planet Earth, yet they are of a genre whose brains are programmed for structural things only. These set of professionals lack creativity in the field of art, literature and cultural activities, because of the monotonous and rigorous nature of the routine job they are engaged with. Yet there are a chosen few who sail against the tides.

While abandoning a high salaried job of Infosys our Sambalpuria girl Pragnya Patnaik ventured out to do things which no one else could even dare to dream. She was working with Infosys Limited as a software consultant. Apart from using the keys of her computer for the job, she opted to use them to compose English literature as well.

Pragnya was born and brought up in Sambalpur. She attended the coveted St. Joseph’s Convent High School. Later, she did her Bachelors in Science from Gangadhar Meher College and Masters in Computer Applications from Sambalpur University.

 Pragnya recalls she started writing early when she was as young as seven years old. Then her subjects were like My Father, My Home, My Pet Dog, The Cow, Rainy Day and all those things which her tender eyes were able to capture around her little play world. What started as a hobby in her childhood, gradually turned into a passion? That little girl has now turned into a mother herself and has made her remarkable presence felt in the world of both Oriya and English literature. So far she has got the credit for writing three books. On the other hand she has translated two best-seller English books into Odia, which in fact is a rare phenomena.


She used to be an outstanding student in the school and college. She recalls, a couple of times she occupied back benches in the classroom only to scribble poetry.  Somehow she was never caught by the professors! During her college days itself she went on to publish her first book of poetry titled “My Pen Speaks”. That collection of poems was appreciated by the readers and critics alike. When she sent a copy of it to the PMO, she even received a letter of appreciation from the then Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee. That letter from the Premier of India boosted her morale and she set the clear goal of her life i.e. to dedicate this life of her to the world of literature.

For the next many years, she worked towards building her career. That was when writing took a backseat for her. She worked in the software industry for years while catapulting herself to the Indian software giant Infosys. Infosys is the ninth most valued Indian company in terms of market capitalization that provides business-consulting, information technology, and outsourcing services.

A love story that she wrote was hugely appreciated by her friends and colleagues at office. Many readers got emotionally charged while some even broke down after reading it. It motivated her to publish an anthology of love stories. And it was then that she realized that she is born to write stories instead of working in the software industry. Her priorities in personal life as well changed when she got blessed with her first child (she is blessed with a son and a daughter). She consulted her husband who works at New York City, USA with TCS as a delivery manager for Morgan Stanley. With his consent she took the bold decision to quit the job for the sake of her first love i.e. writing.

“Love Is Not Lost” her second book is a compilation of love stories which was released in the Delhi Book Fair of 2016. That book has garnered appreciation from various quarters, both inside and outside the country. It became a part of the National Book Trust's catalogue “Books from India”, and was exhibited at the London Book Fair.


In 2018 her collection of short stories in Sambalpuri language titled “Ranga” was released by lokakabi Padmashri Haladhar Nag and Padmashri Jitendriya Haripal.  This book is the first of its kind due to its contemporary subjects. It gathered great reviews from fellow writers, readers, and critics. Sri Manglu Charan Biswal, the famed writer of the Sambalpuri movie Bhuka, says “Let the name of this writer live on for millions of years”. A critic even wrote that this writer’s name will be jotted in golden letters when the history of Sambalpuri language will be written. Our Lokakabi Padmashri Haladhar Nag has presented Pragnya with one of his most prized possession. It is the Uttariya of Lord Jagannath that he received as a part of the much coveted Srikhetra Sanman.

Pragnya has even translated two bestselling English books of Robin Sharma into Odia. The first one is “Daily Inspiration from the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari” and the other one is “The Leader Who Had No Title”.  Her poems in Hindi have been loved by readers. Some of her plays in Hindi have been staged as well. 

Pragnya also co-edits a fortnightly in Odia titled “Vaisakhi”. She is actively involved in various social causes and is a women rights activist.  Through Vaisakhi, she conducts breast cancer awareness programs for the rural women of neglected zone of westrn Odisha.

[Pragya could be seen at 
Kabi Bhavan, Barpali]

This lady is worth a watch as she is taking Sambalpuri literature to the higher spheres while spreading it far and wide.

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Jun 25, 2018

2:27 AM

Abinash Padhan : Light, Camera and Action


The education or the career that most of we had chosen was something that has been imposed by our parents. As a consequence of which in qualitative terms we unable to grow in life as we work in a field where our personal interests mismatch with the work that we do. Often it caused disaster in the topography of our career. Field of your work should be something that should be chosen by you yourself.  And rare are those who take the courage to follow their own instinct. Abinash Padhan of Dungripali is such a young man who dares to follow his dreams.


Despite being graduated with a degree in engineering he opt to follow a vocation which is prone to career risks. Abinash was born at Rampur of Sonepur district of Odisha. His father was a Village Level Worker(VLW) and was working at the grass root level of Panchayat, whereas his mother was a upper primary school teacher. He attended Oriya school up to Standard Fifth under the stewardship of his mother. He was always under the strict purview of his mother’s eye, let it be  at home or be it in school. He finally got the liberty to be a prankster only on passing out from primary  school. 

On passing out 10th he joined +2 Science  at Government Autonomous College, Rourkela. But when he entered college he faced the wrath of raging in the college. He unable to bear the cruelty of the senior students of that government college and returned home. That episode of his life taught him how tough it is to lead life on this planet. The following year he joined a private college by the name Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Science (VSSIS) at Sambalpur and completed his 12th Standard. He appeared for the JE(Joint Entrance) Exams and qualified in it. He joined Govt. College of Engineering at Bhabanipatna, Kalahandi. He choose mechanical engineering. On acquiring the engineering degree he went to Hyderabad to work in a manufacturing company. But in a year he returned home to resume his studies. 

In 2014 he enrolled for M.Tech in production engineering at Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Technology (VSSUT). While pursuing his Masters in production engineering he started fiddling with his cell phone. As if a Romeo he used to sing songs and record them in his cell phone. He sang a song “re mana tu bhala pauchu” and remixed it with music. This song went viral in the college campus and his DJ got instantly recognised by all the lover boys of VSSUT. He became a talk of the town, though in his personal life he was a looser in love and romance episodes. As a young man Abinash fell in love with a girl. As it happen with the majority of people, he was turned down. Without any remorse he says he would not have composed the song if that girl would have ever accepted his proposal. In case that girl had accepted him as on this date Abinash would have become a   machine operator in a factory and working in a sift basis every day instead of producing films.


While pursuing M.Tech he got an opportunity to assist anOriya film director by the name Biswanath Ratha, who produces documentaries on social issues. While working with him he learnt all the nuances of film production. Abinash revered him as Dronacharya the Guru of Pandava’s. During his student days Abinash ventured out to produce films under the banner of Old Tradition Films.


The first short film that Abinash made independently was “God’s own people”. It was a documentary on the plight of leprosy patients of Hatipali village. Leprosy is that contagious disease which has now confined only to tropical Africa and Asia. It affects the skin, mucous membranes, and nerves. It causes lumps on the skin and amputates limbs over the time.

The other subject on which he made a documentary was on a bicycle mechanic of Burla by the name Arun Mishra. Both father and mother of Arun were doctors in VIMSAR, Burla. During the 60’s of the last Century in a car accident both his parents expired. Arun became an orphan. But the medical students of  VIMSAR kept that boy in the hostel and did the upbringing of Arun. And that boy survived in this fierce planet. Now Arun Mishra is working as a cycle mechanic at Burla.



The other documentary Old Tradition Films made was Uwansar Janha. This documentary was on prostitution, a subject which any civilised society hesitate to speak about. But gradually he observed making documentaries on social issues are not commercially viable. To be self sustainable he ventured out to make commercial ad films. He has been introduced by this blogger with TJ Tyres of Bangalore. Abinash and his crew produced three advertising films for the puncture free and burst preventive two wheeler tyres of TJ brand. 


To be self sustainable he ventured out to make commercial ad films. He has been introduced by this blogger with TJ Tyres of Bangalore. Abinash and his crew produced three advertising films for the puncture free and burst preventive two wheeler tyres of TJ brand.

That apart he made an ad film for Bhubaneswar based ACADJEE coaching institute which imparts training to the aspirants of medical and engineering students. He is currently working on a documentary funded by Tata Trust Foundation.  

He works with a Bhubaneswar based NGO by the name Siksha Sandhan as a Resource Person. He invigilates the education system of tribal children of Raigada, Kandhamal and Kalahandi districts. He survives solely from the salary that he gets from the job. He says there is no money to earn from the film production on social issues that too of tribal and downtrodden people of the society. He got lot many brilliant ideas in mind but lack the finance to give a concrete shape to his dreams.
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May 30, 2018

7:45 PM

Durga Padhi : Mission "Tyaga"


India is today running 10% short of its total blood requirement. In absolute terms this shortfall is over 12 lakh units a year. This deficit is surprising even when the eligible donor population of India is more than 512 million. But way back 1982 a visionary of Odisha foresee the shortage of blood supply which our nation was heading for. At individual level he took the initiative to create the public awareness for doing blood donations.

In the year 1986 he setup a society by the name Tyaga to meet the need of acute shortage of blood for the sick and the injured persons across Western Odisha. The man behind this great cause is the visionary and the philanthropist Durga Padhi. Despite being a lawyer by  vocation during mid 80’s of the last Century he able to foresee a burning issue which even no doctor or any physician of Odisha able to sense.


It is worth to note how Durga Padhi was at all inspired to undertake such a great cause to pursue as an ambition for this life of His. He recalls an event of his college life. It was the year 1982 then he was a student of Intermediate (10th+2). He got to know that a relative of his barber was sick and with urgency seek infusion of blood. He along with one of his friend by the name took the bold step. Without telling their parents they went to the District Head Quarter Hospital at Sambalpur to donate blood. They fear to talk about it because donating blood was considered to be a social taboo. On donating blood Durga Padhi got a whole spoon of glucose powder that was provided by the hospital authority. He was happy to swallow the sweet powder at one go.  But while returning home both friends had a sense of accomplishment. They reached home and went up stair to chitchat in his room. In the mean while Durga Padhi heard the entrance gate of his house banged. When he looked outside the window he saw his father was furiously shouting, Where is Durga? His father was a  man of anger and strict discipline. His friend hide beneath the bed. His father reached his room with a stick. He asked only one question, did you went to hospital to donate blood? When Durga lowered his head, his father started beating rampantly all over his body. Durga started sobbing with pain on his abdomen, thigh, buttock and the chest. His mother rushed to rescue her son from the wrath of his father.

Next day after college both friends went to hospital to meet the patient. Durga felt serene when he saw smile in the face of the patient. But unfortunately the recipient of the blood could not survive. His friends taunted at them saying their blood is bad, that is why the patient expired. This event made a deep impact in the life of Durga Padhi. He set a clear goal to live a meaningful life.   
 

For these long 31 years Durga Padhi is working relentlessly to generate public awareness to donate blood. Until now his society Tyaga has organized six national workshops for Voluntary Blood Donors Organizations. That apart Tyaga has organized several State level workshops on the burning issue of shortage of blood and to recruit blood donors. It has also successfully organized Western Odisha’s 1st ever mega blood donation camp where a record number of 952 units were collected in a single day under one roof. Former Chief Minsiter Hemanada Biswal attended this event as the Chief Guest.

[Durga Padhi could be seen standing at the centre on the left it was Hemanada Biswal and on the rright its poet Padmashree Haldhar Nag]

Besides this red revolution in the liquid form mentioned above, Tyaga has provided succour to the poor and destitute people during the time of their treatment at Veer Surendra Sai Medical College and Hospital. At many instances of calamities it has rendered rescue and relief operations as well.


On individual capacity he lay 93 times on hospital bed to donate blood.  One who works for the society without any selfish motive sooner or later ought to be recognized. In the year 2008 Tyaga has been felicitated with the Governor’s Award and in the year 2016 it bagged State Award.

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