Upendra bhanja biography in oriya film song

April is a wake up call for laid back poets as the &#;National Poetry Writing Month&#; virus goes global. According to some poets, poetry writing is not like erecting a building. For building construction you have a plan and then there is a time schedule based on which you work everyday whether you have inspiration or not. No doubt for poetry also you need preparation. Then this preparation has to wait till the inspiration dawns to produce the best kind of poetry. In other words best poetry dawns as a grace.

In stead of writing poetry, the reason I am writing about poets is that not having any preparation for poetry during the last couple of months I can hardly expect for grace to dawn. Secondly, I owe a tribute to each of the poets who have inspired me not only for writing poetry but also to come out of the dark clouds by remembering their lines.

Upendra Bhanja was one such poet in whose case dedicated preparation met with tremendous grace to make h

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Odia literature

Odia literature is literature written in the Odia language, mostly from the Indian state of Odisha. The modern Odia language is mostly formed from Tadbhava words with significant Sanskrit (Tatsama) influences, along with loanwords from Desaja, English, Hindustani (Hindi/Urdu), Persian, and Arabic. Its earliest written texts date from around CE. The earliest Odia newspaper was Utkala Deepika, first published on August 4,

Historians have divided Odia literature into five main stages: Old Odia ( AD to AD), Early Medieval Odia ( AD to AD), Medieval Odia ( AD to AD), Late Medieval Odia ( AD to AD) and Modern Odia ( AD to present). Further subdivisions, as seen below, more precisely chart the language's development.

4th century BC

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The creativity and development of the Odia language and literature can be seen in its spoken forms, such as folk tales, and in written forms, such as rock edicts and manuscripts. Songs sung to memorialize birth, death, work, a

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Upendra Kumar

Indian music composer

Musical artist

Upendra Kumar (18 July – 24 January ) was an Indian composer who predominantly worked in Kannada films. He was known for his strong association with Rajkumar and his family and scored some of his career best compositions for the films featuring Rajkumar and his sons. He had scored for films mainly in Kannada, in addition to Odia, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Tulu films.^[1]

Early life

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Kumar originally hailed from Digapahandi, a town in the present-day Odisha State of India.^[2] He was born in in Madras (now Chennai) in British India.^[3] His father, Lakshman Swamy was an astrologer. Kumar studied up to seventh Grade and shifted towards music learning with the help of his uncle, Apparao. He underwent rigorous training in Hindustani classical, Western instrumental and Indian string instruments. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in Indian classical music, Odissi music and sitar from the U