Tapan Kumar Pradhan

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Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan (b.1972 Bhubaneswar, Orissa), Indian writer and poet in English, Hindi and Oriya, is a versatile creative artist in such diverse fields like poetry, short fiction, essays, caricature and visual art.

Dr Pradhan is perhaps best known for his translation of the poem Kalahandi for which he won Sahitya Akademi's Indian Literature Golden Jubilee Translation Award for Poetry in 2007 along with Rana Nayar. His other important poems include Equation and The Hour of Coming which were published in the November-December 2007 Issue of Indian Literature (No 242). Besides, his poems The Storm, Epitaph and Boddhisattva published in the Journal of Poetry Society [1] have won critical acclaim.

1 Award winning essays
2 Publications
3 Contribution to Visual Art
4 Research and other activities
5 See also
6 References

[edit] Award winning essays

In 2007 Dr Pradhan received the Indian Express [2] Citizen for Peace [3] Award for his essays on communal harmony. He also won All-India Inter-bank Hindi Essay Competition 2007 [4] for his essay on financial inclusion as well as prize in the World Habitat Day Essay Competition 2007 for his essay titled Green & Intelligent Buildings and Urban Infrastructure . Earlier he had won Upasika Kamaladevi Award for essay on Buddhism, Shatadru award for short story and Ankur award for poetry etc.

[edit] Publications

Dr Pradhan's poems, essays and short stories have been published in a wide range of journals like Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi), Journal of the Poetry Society [5] (India), The Statesman, Without Reserve and The Asian Age etc.

[edit] Contribution to Visual Art

In 2006 Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan won a prize in RBI's Corporate Cartoon Competition. His cartoons and caricatures have been published in the Without Reserve.

[edit] Research and other activities

A holder of UGC Fellowship of University Grants Commission of India, Dr Pradhan was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Utkal University in 2001 for his dissertation titled "Dimensions of Integration and Conflict in a Cross-cultural Cross-communal Setting : A Comparative Analysis". He taught Sociology for a while at Fakir Mohan College, Balasore, before joining the Reserve Bank of India as an officer in 1999.

Presently Dr Pradhan is a Member of Faculty in the ZTC or Zonal Training Centre of RBI at CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai where he teaches Banking, Finance, HR Management and Sociology, besides Yoga and Stress Management. Dr Tapan, or TKP as he is fondly known, hails from Laxmisagar in Bhubaneswar.