uruprasad Mohanty (1924) is arguably one of the most powerful and influential poets of the 1950s of India. Born In a nondescript village to a prominent family of Odisha, he completed his higher education in English literature. He is acknowledged as the foremost modern Odia poet who forged a new poetic idiom to express an overwhelming sense of a malaise of despair and cynicism that had set in post-independence Odisha, India. Guruprasad has written only sixty-eight poems, including ten sonnets whi