Cuttack: The funeral of eminent Odia litterateur and poet Binapani Mohanty was held with full national honours at Satichaura cremation ground in Cuttack on Monday.
Many personalities including Cuttack Collector Bhabani Shankar Chayani, DCP Prateek Singh, and former Choudwar-Cuttack MLA Prabhat Ranjan Biswal paid their last respects to Mohanty.
Mohanty had passed away at her residence in Cuttack on Sunday at the age of 85. Many dignitaries including Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik have mourned her demise.
A retired professor in Economics, Mohanty had been awarded Padmashree in 2020. She had also been conferred with the prestigious Atibadi Jagannath Das Samman by Odisha Sahitya Akademi in 2020 for her contribution to Odia literature.
She started her career as a storyteller with the publication of ‘Gotie Ratira Kahani’ in 1960. Some of her best stories are ‘Pata Dei’, ‘Khela Ghara,’Naiku Rasta’, ‘Bastraharana’, Andhakarara’, ‘Kasturi Murga O Sabuja Aranya’, and ‘Michhi Michhika’.
She was the founder of the Odisha Lekhika Sansad, an organisation of Odia women writers.
