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Padma Shri, tribal singer Purnamasi Jani met Chief Secretary Suresh Chandra Mahapatra

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Bhubaneswar:10/11/21: A day after she was conferred with the Padma Shri, tribal singer from Kandhamal district Purnamasi Jani met Chief Secretary Suresh Chandra Mahapatra at the Lok Seva Bhavan on Wednesday.

It was a prestigious moment for the State and Kandhamal district when Purnamasi Jani, received the prestigious Padma Shri award from President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday.

Jani has not received any formal education. The 76-year-old divine poetess popularly knowns as Tadisaru Bai has never repeated any of her songs or poems.

She is a tribal singer and social activist from Kandhamal. Jani has sung thousands of songs promoting social causes in Odia, Kui and Sanskrit for over six decades.

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Ashok Palit has completed his graduation from Upendranath College Soro, Balasore and post graduation from Utkal University in Odia Language and literture.. He has also carved out a niche for himself as a scribe of eminence after joining the profession in 1988. He is also an independent media production professional. He brings loads of experience to Advanced Media, Ashok Palit as a cineaste has been active in film criticism for over three decades. As a film society activist, he soared to eminence for his profound commitment to the art film appreciation and aesthetics of cinema. His mode of discourse is often erudite but always lucid and comprehensible marked by a perfect acumen so rare in the field. A film aesthete with an immense fond of critical sensibilities, he wrote about growth and development of odia cinema in New Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and Screen. He has been working as an Editor for Cine Samaya from 2002-2004.. He had made solid contribution on cinema in many odia Dailies and weekly such as Samaj, Prajatantra, Dharatri, Samaya, Satabadi, and weekly Samaya.
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