From the 2024 festival
Dipak Samantrai
Biography from 2024
Dr Dipak Samantarai was with the nation's broadcaster, All India Radio, for more than three decades. He retired as the Director of National Academy of Broadcasting and Multimedia, Bhubaneswar. He has won national awards for radio programme production and training of electronic media personnel. He has three anthologies of poems and a couple of motivational writings to his credit He is the Convenor of Cuttack Heritage Walks. He says he is in love with 3 Ps: People Poetry and Photography.