Rabi Singh (27 January 1931 – 2 February 2020) was an Odia poet, writer.
Author of more than 50 books, he was a journalist and prominent politician as well.
Early life
He was born Rabindranath Singh on 27 January 1931 at Sinharapur village of undivided Cuttack district (now
Jagatsinghpur
Jagatsinghpur is a city and a municipality in Jagatsinghpur district in the Indian state of Odisha. It is also the headquarters of Jagatsinghpur district. It got the recognition as a new district on 1 April 1993 formerly it was a sub-division of ...
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His parents were freedom fighters and he was involved in politics from an early age. He had little formal education but he was well versed in
Odia
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* Odia people in Odisha, India
* Odia language, an Indian language, belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family
* Odia alphabet, a writing system used for the Odia languag ...
, English and
Bengali
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*something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia
* Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region
* Bengali language, the language they speak
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. In 1948 he joined Congress Socialist Party. Subsequently, in 1953 he joined Communist Party Of India. In 1955 he participated in Goa freedom movement. He was jailed during 1975 emergency.
Literary Activities
He started writing after 1955. He was known as a Marxist and revolutionary poet.
His poems reflected the pain and suffering of the exploited masses. His poem collection () was published before his marriage. For this he was awarded Odisha Sahitya Akademi award. He translated many Russian literary works to Odia.
Awards
* Odisha Sahitya Akademi Award - 1968
* Soviet Land Nehru Award -
* Atibadi Jagannath Das Award - 2017
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References
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1931 births
2020 deaths
People from Jagatsinghpur district
Odia-language poets
Poets from Odisha
Recipients of the Atibadi Jagannath Das Award
Recipients of the Odisha Sahitya Akademi Award
20th-century Indian poets
21st-century Indian poets