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Rajakishore Parhi to get Bal Sahitya Puraskar-2025

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Bhubaneswar12/11/25: Altogether 24 authors from across the country have been selected for the Bal Sahitya Puraskar-2025 of the Sahitya Akademi. President Droupadi Murmu will felicitate the authors with the Bal Sahitya awards for their contribution to the genre of children’s literature. The annual awards ceremony is scheduled to be held Triveni Auditorium, Tansen Marg, New Delhi, on November 14.

Eminent Gujarati author Varsha Das will grace the occasion as the chief guest, while Sahitya Akademi vice president of the Akademi Kumud Sharma will propose the vote of thanks. Sahitya Akademi secretary Pallavi Prashant Holkar will deliver the welcome address.

Odia author Rajakishore Parhi has been selected for the Bal Sahitya Puraskar-2025 for his poetry book Kete Phula Phutichi. The 24 awardees will receive a cheque of Rs 50,000 and a bronze plaque each in recognition of their works.

The awarded books and the awardees

Assamese – Mainaahantar Padya (poetry), Surendra Mohan Das; Bengali – Ekhono Gaye Kanta Daye (stories), Tridib Kumar Chattopadhyay; Bodo – Khanthi Bwswn Arw Akhu Danai (stories), Binay Kumar Brahma; Dogri – Nanhi Tor (poetry), P.L. Parihar ‘Shauq’; English – Dakshin : South Indian Myths and Fables Retold (stories), Nitin Kushalappa MP; Gujarati – Tinchak (poetry), Kirtida Brahmbhatt; Hindi – Ek Batey Barah (non-fiction & memoir), Susheel Shukla; Kannada – Notebook (short stories), K. Shivalingappa Handihal; Kashmiri – Shure Te Tchure Gyush (short stories), Izhar Mubashir; Konkani – Belabaicho Shanker Ani Heir Kanyo (stories), Nayana Adarkar; Maithili – Chukka (short stories), Munni Kamat; Malayalam – Penguinukalude Vankaravil (novel), Sreejith Moothedath; Manipuri – Angangshing- Gee   Shannabungshida (play), Shanto M.; Marathi – Abhaimaya (poetry), Suresh Govindrao Sawant; Nepali – Shanti Van (novel), Sangmu Lepcha; Odia – Kete Phula Phutichi (poetry), Rajakishore Parhi; Punjabi – Jaddu Patta (novel), Pali Khadim (Amrit Pal Singh); Rajasthani – Pankheruv Ni Peeda (play), Bhogilal Patidar; Sanskrit – Balvisvam  (poetry), Preeti R. Pujara; Santali – Sona Miru-ag Sandesh (poetry), Haralal Murmu, Sindhi – Asmani Pari (poetry), Heena Agnani ‘Heer’; Tamil – Ottrai Siragu Oviya (novel), Vishnupuram Sarvanan; Telugu – Kaburla Devatha (story), Gangisetty Sivakumar; Urdu – Qaumi Sitare (articles), Ghazanfar Iqbal.

About Editor in chief

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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