Sarojinī Sāhoo

1956

"The world would be a lot of poorer without sexual energy in art, music, literature, drama, architecture, design, poetry and cooking", Dr. Sarojini Sahoo says in one of her posts on Sexuality and Spiritualism in Indian literature. In fact, few writers dare to write on such subjects, and she is one of them. Dr. Sahoo needs no introduction to readers of contemporary Oriya literature. Sarojini has emerged as a writer crusading for the cause of feminism through various experimentation in her fiction. Most of her stories and novels tend to become no-holds-barred exploration into the feminist self of a feminine soul. She is the daughter of Orissa and her work reflects the true image of feminism in the society. Her feminism is always linked with sexual politics of a woman. She denies patriarchy limits of sexual expression for a woman and identifies women's sexual liberation as the real motive behind the women's movement. She is the ray of hope for millions those aim to root out the gender difference from the society. Let's have a look on her major work and achievements - A distinguished feminist writer, and former editor of Pallaba, a fiction oriented Oriya journal, she has been conferred with the Orissa Sahitya Academy Award, 1993, the Jhankar Award, 1992, the Bhubaneswar Book Fair Award and the Prajatantra Award. Dr. Sarojini Sahoo was the first Oriya writer, whose novel has been translated and published from Bangladesh. Her novel 'Gambhiri Ghara' was a bestseller in Bangladesh wh

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