Bhagaban Jayasingh: Educated at Ravenshaw College, Cuttack and Allahabad University, Jayasingh is a celebrated Odia poet and a critic of eminence who writes both in Odia and English with equal ease and flourish. He has published seven volumes of poems in Odia, besides five volumes of poetry in English translation. His critical book, Door to Despair; Modernism in Odia Poetry, has been published by Authors Press, New Delhi. He has received several state and national level literary awards.